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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Sure, it all works out...15 or 20 years from now.

New to these issues and don't get why Brent's Jefferson boosters don't seem to play hardball with DCPS.

Why not say, we're not supporting the renovation, and we're not coming, without appropriate classes in place.  We want at and above grade-level math courses, like the ones Wash Latin and BASIS offer.  Most of our families enroll at those schools.

Since they've got tens of millions to throw at a building, why not a few million pinned down for appropriate classes?

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You don't understand the difference between capital and operating budgets. You also assume dcps cares whether brent families come to ja. They may be happy to have a school with steadily increasing test results, above-average mgps, and some oob spots for motivated families whose ib options are less desirable. Jefferson has a solid reputation that precedes most brent families' residence in dc; one of Charles Allen's employees went there.[/quote]

As an FYI: This older reputation of Jefferson comes from when it functioned as a de-facto selective magnet school for math.  It recruited and separately taught some of the best students from all over the city and then fed into Wilson HS.  It was not only an open enrollment neighborhood school like it is meant to be now.  Ask Allen's employee about that.[/quote]

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