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They should absolutely get rid of OOB feeder rights. There's no reason lottering into a school in K should give you an automatic path to that school's feeders till 12th.

I disagree. The bonds formed in cohorts and communities are valuable and it would be harmful to pull a child out of their cohort and community once established. If feeder rights were removed, there would be mass exodus from DCPS.[/quote]

and there is a faction of DCPS who would not mind that.  DCPS only cares about "equity" and "achievement gaps".  They do not care about creating and sustaining a school system that is used by the vast majority of the school age population of the District of Columbia like in Arlington, Fairfax or Montgomery County.  Their version of "let them eat cake" is "let them pay for private".  Close to 50% of the DCPS population is "at risk" while less than 25% of school age children in the District are.  That statistic means that there is extremely large number of families (and not all of them wealthy, or white) who do not believe that DCPS will do a good job educating their children.   The first priority in boundary/feeder patters should be to try to create another feeder pattern that is deemed rigorous enough by middle class families.  The best way to do that would be to have all the Hill ES feed to one middle school, and to install a principal at Eastern who is dedicated to creating another JR in the eastern end of the city.[/quote]

It it not like JR is that great but it will take more than a new principal to turn Eastern into a JR.

Just look at the PARCC results.  These are the proficiency percentages:

Eastern:

ELA 14.96%
Math 2.79%

JR:

ELA 54.43%
Math 18.37%
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For comparison, here are the same results for 9-12th grade at BASIS and Latin:

BASIS:

ELA 85.34%
Math 59.63%

Latin:

ELA 57.87%
Math 29.00%[/quote]

WTG Basis on counseling out all the at risk kids.  Public School and all.[/quote]

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