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If you want Brent to have the money for specials  such as art, music, science and those advanced course "G&T-ish" classes, etc., you'd best encourage OOB kids to fill up Brent's underpopulated grades and welcome them, rather than cut them out.  Furthermore, every OOB kid that attends Brent for 5th grade is one less kid taking a spot at a school with a better middle school feed.  
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Haven't posted here before.  What are you smoking?  Most of the "specials" are paid for by parents and PTA fund-raising which won't change in the face of DCPS budget cuts.  Parents even had to pay for the PE teacher for a year.  The average family contribution was around $500 this year, not including paying for the afterschool program, and some families gave triple and quadruple that sum.

Come from an immigrant family, ps grad, parents are not college grads.  Have worked hard and want my tax dollars to support a neighborhood school for neighborhood kids.  If Brent District kids grow up disadvantaged, like I did, bring 'em on, we'll help.  If you grew up white and well off, spare the rest of us your bleeding heart.

Am optimistic that the middle school feed will get worked out eventually.  Probably Jefferson Academy.  EH is a bridge too far.

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It's a crime that the boosters should have to be paying for this stuff.  DCPS spends more per student than most districts in the nation, to include a great many public schools that DO have G&T, arts, athletics and so on.  Where does all the money go?  Tell me there isn't waste and bleed there.[/quote]

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