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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]13:09 again . . . and the demographics are such that this proposed "algorithm" approach would result in schools of well over 30% FARMS each---simply because of DC's extremely high poverty rate.

In contrast to the San Francisco "controlled choice" model---which doesn't appear to work very well in SF---in DC we have seen---through Charter schools like KIPP and DC Prep---what approaches HAVE been successful with lower income kids.  But DCPS doesn't seem interested in trying to replicate those models within its own framework.

But back to an earlier post I made---"controlled choice"---I don't think---is about actually helping low income kids.  [b]Instead, it is a policy decision with the desired result by entrenched interests to return DCPS to how it existed in the 70s, 80s and 90s. [/b] DCPS was still economically segregated in terms of schools---it was just that the parochial interests who pillaged DCPS would eschew their neighborhood public schools and send their kids OOB WOTP, since the high SES families living WOTP didn't avail themselves of the public schools.  [/quote]

Trying to follow your reasoning here but can't.  Why would anyone want a return to the DCPS of the past?  I know people who grew up here but all went to WOTP schools.  Everything else was deplorable.

I think the current goal is to keep higher SES families who are EOTP in their neighborhood schools to raise quality there, but that objective is drowned out in all the noise from WOTP families who think either a) there will be city-wide lottery for MS and HS, or b) their kids will be forced to go to EOTP schools.

I don't understand all the biz about Barry's Old School.[/quote]

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