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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think DCPS is doing a great job making progress considering that, unlike charters, they can't IN ANY way "cherry pick" students. Or "counsel them out". [/quote]

Out-of-boundary students can be sent back to their in-boundary school at the principal's discretion. Some principals use that power to "cherry pick" and "counsel out" students.[/quote]

Technically, yes but at the elementary level this is rarely, if ever, done. Ive heard of it at Wilson in really egregious cases.

[b]Dcps schools cannot cherry pick like the charters[/b], not at all, especially with the new lottery system, its all very tightly controlled.[/quote]

This is complete BS.  DCPS imposes barriers to entry by creating boundary lines: those with money and resources can buy in, those without cannot.  $$ are the most assured form of cherry-picking.  It's why there are no disadvantaged students at Mann.   :roll: [/quote]

And DCPS also has several application only high schools (Walls, Ellington, Banneker, McKinley). By definition they only take the best students. Perhaps they should be forced to go to their neighborhood schools - Ballou, Coolidge, Eastern and Wilson. [/quote]

Application schools only taking the best students? Sort of. We've got Walls, with its affirmative action-based admissions system (admitting no higher a percentage of whites than that of the city as a whole) and Banneker, with average SAT scores no better than the national average, while academics at Ellington and McKinley don't pass muster. We have great application high schools in name only when we could have a Boston Latin, or a Chicago Lab School, or a smaller version of Stuyvesant. Neighborhood high schools tend to be a disaster; application schools are mediocre. Nothing much here to cheer about.
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My only point was that motivated students, generally without behavior problems, leave neighborhood DCPS high schools for these application schools. Yet I don't hear those who decry charters for 'creaming' the best students from DCPS neighborhood schools make the same point about these schools.[/quote]

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