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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Who do you think went to WOTP schools OOB in the 90s?  The children of the same middle mgmt DC bureaucrats who benefitted from the Barry patronage and friends and families contracting.  The schools WOTP weren't abyssmal, but neither were they nearly the performers they became after the neighborhood families invested in the schools, started serious HSA fundraising, and got the schools to get "autonomous status" free from a lot of Central Office meddling.

But that left the Barryites out in the cold, once getting in WOTP wasn't guaranteed.

I think you are right about what the Deputy Mayor's agenda is.  I think her thinking is ridiculous-- if that's her goal-- more EOTP parents staying in regular DCPS-- then she should engage in economic gerrymandering on a massive scale and recreate a feeder grouping of already decent ES.  But that would be "classist" so she won't do it.

But hers is not the only agenda.  Drive out the upper middle income or highly educated parents and then there will be room WOTP for the old guard's kids once again.   [/quote]

[b]Again, trying to follow you but your reasoning sounds paranoid.  All the DC natives I know are white and lived WOTP, in areas that were then solidly middle class.[/b]

There aren't many "already decent" schools EOTP, but there is a solid and growing middle class. That wasn't the case 20 years ago. Many--I'd say most--young families in that middle class arrived in the last 10 years and don't know much of what DC was like before Tony Williams.  I've lived here since the late 80s and while I'm not a fan of Gray, I have a hard time believing that the DME has a plan to drive out upper income families.

They need to make DCPS more desirable to families outside of Ward 3, and that has to be about making the [i]schools[/i] outside of Ward 3 better.  [/quote]

Seriously?  You sound like the Dukakis voter from the Upper West Side who couldn't believe he lost, because everyone she knew voted for him.

If all the DC natives you know are white and wotp, then you don't know DC.[/quote]

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