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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are one of those families that aimed at Roosevelt. It didn’t make sense for kids who are academically advanced 20 years ago and it doesn’t now.

We really took it seriously. The trouble is that very few kids are at or above grade level and our kids are above grade level in everything. To the point of doing nothing in class but helping friends. Socially, our kids went to school with all these kids all the way through middle school so high school probably would’ve been fine though it is always a struggle.

We sent ours to selective DCPS. Teachers that give our kids’ best work Bs and Cs so they will grow rather than coast.

Coolidge and its early college were also right up there as choices. I like Coolidge Early College because of the possibility that you could get or keep kids who are doing well academically in the school and maybe build toward some academic integration. I would love it if this program was in Roosevelt and associated with a college better than Trinity.

Trinity from what I’ve seen is a community college level university that DCPS teachers use to get Masters degrees. I think the college partners should be closer to the continuum of national level higher education. Howard, Catholic, American.

Frankly what I’d dream of is an early college program at Roosevelt that connects with its international affairs programming and feeds into Georgetown. That’d be guaranteed to draw some families with high achievers and an interestingly diverse set, I would bet.

But I don’t have high expectations that DCPS does what I’d want. [/quote]

Georgetown has had a lot of issues with kids from DCPS. They don’t- or they didn’t- have the resources or remedial programming to get kids to the level of the modal Georgetown student. This of course could have changed, and it’s not just a Georgetown problem or a DCPS problem (Michigan famously had similar issues with Michigan public schools and rural students, every top university does). The chances Georgetown engages in an official program are pretty slim, and they are very selective about who they let in from DCPS as it is (no one feels good about a valedictorian getting a 0.0 GPA at your school and getting kicked out after a year). [/quote]

Michigan has not famously had any issue with Michigan public schools and rural students...Michigan offers no remedial courses. Michigan rural schools are tiny and shrinking - top suburban high schools are largest feeders to Michigan and are top 300 nationally. [/quote]

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