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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Perhaps this has been suggested before, but why not a test-based school which takes the top X number of students from each ward?  This would create, essentially, a quota system for race, but race as imbedded in community choice.  It would make a very selective entrance for affluent kids and a less selective one for poorer kids, but would allow a mixed population of motivated, smart students.  This would be the kind of diversity I would embrace for my kids, if they were smart enough to test in that is![/quote]

This sort of admission process would water down the admission process resulting in a watering down of curriculum most likely since many of the kids would most likely be years behind the others. This is not what many DC parents such as myself are clamoring for. We want a rigorous test-in school with qualified students regardless of race. An objective admission test is race blind.[/quote]

Do you honestly think there aren't 25 rising 6th graders in all of ward 8 who are qualified to grace a classroom with your child?  Please.  Just because test scores across the board are bad does not mean there are no kids prepared for a challenge!  Bring them in, give them all the kind of curriculum my soon to be cut out of deal kids currently receive at deal and see what you get.  Deal raves about their curriculum, and we have loved it.  I would like to see how it stands up to the best middle school talent the WHOLE city has to offer, not just us rich kids in NW.  Really smart kids catch up remarkably quickly when given the opportunity.  I am a charter school teacher and see if every day.[/quote]

I am not saying that there are not 25 kids in ward 8 or that I would not want ward 8 kids in my kid's class. I am saying let any DC student who wants to take the test take it and if they pass admit them based on their scores alone and not where they live or go to school. Taking to the top students from every DC school or ward would [b]not[/b] guarantee that the top DC students who pass such a test would be admitted.

As for great curricula, I agree it is vital to helping kids. And yes, smart kids can catch up in many cases. However, there are many kids who enter school years behind in vocabulary for instance due to their parents not reading or talking to them at length. I believe preschool should be offered to every child in need to help make up the differences but even then it is a tall order in some cases.[/quote]

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