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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The WOTP resources are highly educated families and their kids that reap the benefits of these parents.

How could DCPS export that across the park?
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It can't.  That's why the conversation needs to focus on what is offered in neighborhood schools rather than test scores.[/quote]

So are they going to try to engineer 75% IB at wotp schools?  We'd be so out of DC if my kid couldn't go the school across the street.[/quote]

But then there are the families who are already driving their  kids across town every day -- DC probably sees them as easy marks for their new controlled choice program.  These are parents an children who have already been "trained" to jump to the tune of the latest fad in school reform -- for the great privilege of staying in DC.

none of the programs have worked yet -- remember Capital gains -- the program that paid kids for good attendance, etc, that was supposed to raise scores -- didn't work.  Remember bonus pay for highly effective teachers based on high impact scores?  That was supposed to raise scores, too, as the teachers "taught harder" but it just showed that most of the highly effective teachers were teaching in ward 3, where the kids were already doing fine.   remember the "rock star" principals - most of whom have left. remember the "incredible gains" made in some of the lowest scoring schools?  cheating.[/quote]

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