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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Parents are not doing what employees should be doing at the wotp schools. 'Get involved' in your local school is code for contribute money and show your upper middle class face at school events. Both additional $$ and the social capital upper middle class families bring to the school help it to attract other upper middle class families. That's your job. Once the poor have moved on, the teaching and administration more or less look after themselves.[/quote]

This is so, so, so disturbing.  "After the poor have moved on"????!!!

[/quote] Disturbing ... and true. Name a desirable DCPS school that doesn't have have falling numbers of OOB & FARMS students.[/quote]

Falling numbers or falling percentage?  They are not the same thing.[/quote] Not interested in a 3rd grade math lesson. Interested if you know of a desirable DCPS school that has rising numbers (percentages, if you like) of OOB or FARMS kids.[/quote]

The point is, if more prepared students go to a school the existing student body does not have to leave for it to become a successful school.  If there is a larger student body and the new students come from higher SES families that value education then the percentage of FARMs students can go down without the numbers of FARMS students going down.

I believe Hearst has been on an upward trend and it maintains a good number of OOB student with rising numbers of IB students.  I do not know what its FARMS numbers are.

Also, I think you are wrong to link low performance and the presence of OOB students.  OOB students by definition come from families that care about education, as they are often taking their kids halfway across the city to get a better education than is provided at their in-boundary school.  OOB student numbers go down when a school becomes more successful because there are fewer available spots when more in-boundary families attend.  Deal became successful with a significant number of OOB students.  The problem is the inability to satisfy the demand, not that the OOB students are unprepared.[/quote]

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