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Trinity from what I’ve seen is a community college level university that DCPS teachers use to get Masters degrees. I think the college partners should be closer to the continuum of national level higher education. Howard, Catholic, American.

[b]Frankly what I’d dream of is an early college program at Roosevelt that connects with its international affairs programming and feeds into Georgetown. That’d be guaranteed to draw some families with high achievers and an interestingly diverse set, I would bet. 
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But I don’t have high expectations that DCPS does what I’d want. [/quote]

Not sure how much use there is mentioning that Roosevelt's valedictorian is at GWU considering other comments on the previous page of this thread that counter such one-off cases with "but remember that valedictorian at GU who flunked out". It's possible that student wasn't well prepared, or maybe GU's whole "here is a full ride for you" was just a marketing gimmick. The more worrisome fact is, these - traditionally White and well-off - universities are not well prepared to welcome and support a wide diversity of students. Racism and classism is a reality among old-ilk faculty. Even for the most receptive of them, it's hard to unlearn. Here is to trying!
In working with Roosevelt HS leadership, advisors, faculty, and students, I have been met with nothing but love, support, and goodwill. To me, that is what matters most of all, much more so than who else is going there - and whether they log highly proficient learning gains on PARCC and such when K-8 couldn't.[/quote]

Say what?!  You acknowledge that the students are ill-prepared for college but make an unsubstantiated accusation that colleges don't accept the students because of "racism and classism (sic)"???

If you want a good pathway to college, then fix what K-8 has been unable to fix!  PK3 and PK4 are great steps, but not enough.

The idea that colleges should accept unprepared students but just spread love instead of success is whacko.  That's not what a college does.[/quote]

Gains made due to PK3 & 4 are in illusion. Studies have shown head start kids (on average) are behind again by 3rd grade. Many who aren't behind in 3rd grade are behind by high school. [b]Nothing the schools do can make up for an unstable homelife.[/b][/quote]
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At the end of the day, kids who come from families that don’t care about parenting, education, holding down a job, who scream profanities at their kids in public, smoke weed I front of kids etc…are not going to succeed. Stop blaming the schools. DC just keeps passing kids each who can’t read or write or do basic math and then everyone blames the teachers cause the kids are a mess by middle school[/quote]

Individual teachers and individual principals, might not be able to. But a school district or a country can. Those kids need longer school days and longer school years, as much time as possible in a positive, safe, nurturing environment with ample free nutritious actual food. These kids need to be supported by adults who care about their jobs, care about not screaming profanities at children, who don't smoke weed, who recognize they as adults cannot spend any time on social media while in the school building. These kids need out-of-school programs staffed with young adults with the same values as the school staff described above. This can be achieved with investments, especially if those investments aren't stolen or squandered by corruption.[/quote]

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