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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't see the point of dreaming like PP above is doing. Fact is, DCPS has eliminated the Walls test and a standardized test requirement for admission to Walls, with no plans to bring back either, and you're thinking in terms of adding a test a new program with test prep materials provided? No way is this happening in DC, not under Bowser and when is she out the door? Six years hence? Dream on. [/quote] +100000000000 They won't allow HS admissions based on a test for fear it violates "equity". You thin they are going to allow it for 6th???!!!![/quote] I don’t get this attitude that the people of DC have nothing they can do but gnash their teeth and wring their hands. [b]DCPS and the DC government belong to you.[/b] You could demand better. Obviously people haven’t, so maybe the real barrier to gifted programs etc. is that DC families don’t really want them when it comes down to it. [/quote] No they don't. Absolutely not. How long have you lived in DC, PP above? We've been here more than 30 years, with kids in DCPS for the last 9. The truth is that the Dem party machine runs DC, and that Eleanor Norton Holmes and her party ensure that we'll never get a voting Rep in Congress (Dem leaders would much rather whine about not getting 2 Senators than take the 1 Rep DC could have had in the 90s). Why is Charles Allen probably facing a recall vote in the fall? It's not because he'll go down in a special election: it's a protest vote. The recall is born of a situation in which a great many DC voters are alienated by the absurdly top-down political status quo in this city. The system all but ensures that incumbents are untouchable, at least if they're not criminals, and ends itself all too well to backroom deals generate the most important decisions the city council makes, particularly on education issues. The machine picked Bowser and she essentially runs unopposed. Voters have little say in what happens in this city, very little indeed. [/quote]
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