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And, where did those 9th graders with barely functional literacy and math skills come from?  A dysfunctional DCPS for K-8 that completely failed them.[/quote]

Do you not get that DC Met is the high school of last resort? These kids have been through many schools, possibly schools with okay to decent proficiency levels for a good swath of their populations. The reason these kids come into 9th barely functional is much more due to their out of school circumstances than the K-8 schools (and other high schools) they have churned through.[/quote]

And somehow magically DC Metropolitan is going to overcome the problems outside the school?  No, that's the same as it was k-8.  And the problems existed all through k-8 but were never addressed, never dealt with - year after year going by with everyone just sweeping it under the carpet and nobody dealing with it.  That's the huge failure of DCPS right there - that's precisely the thing that needs to be talked about, but all we hear here is the entrenched DCPS culture patting itself on the back and congratulating itself when in fact they failed those kids k-8.  Unbelievable.[/quote]

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