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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]But they problem with #4 making them desirable... they are so far from that for parents with high performing kids, and parents with high performing kids who are mobile will just move when high school comes around, or go private. [b]But high performing kids are needed to make the school desirable![/b] [/quote]

Ah, I think we've finally come to what you're really looking for.  You want to either remove low-performing kids from Wilson or create a new high school for high-performing kids.[/quote]

I don't really mind about Wilson - I am about to be drawn out of that boundary I think which makes sense as I live almost down town in Dupont Circle, but yes to a new high school that suits high performing kids, and I don't mean another select application only school. But I definitely mean a school where no fewer than 40% of kids are not reading at grade level for example (although maybe that is a bit to high, no fewer than 30%?). Not that I can just order up such a thing, but for parents with high performing kids to try out a new high school it needs to look like it will have these kind of outcomes from the outset.

I really think that DCPS has an obligation to provide children a decent education which means providing them with school environments that match and extend their academic output.  Having all these kids graduating from elementary school who perform at advanced levels and not providing them middle or high schools to foster and build upon that is letting them down personally and it is a failure to design and lead a modern public school system. [/quote]

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