So what that only 3-4 students would show up to the AP class? Shouldn’t students in all wards have access to a good education? And just as a prop said already, perhaps if DCPS added AP courses to some of the lower enrollment/performance schools, parents would reconsider sending their kids to charters and privates or moving. No AP would be a nonstarter for me but if my IB school offered APs even if it was low performance school, I’d consider it because I know my kid doesn’t need special treatment to do well. But the opportunity for courses should be equal throughout the city.
-JKLM/Deal/Wilson Parent

Anonymous wrote:The acronym was formed long, long ago, so all the recent statistics and new feeder patterns and new reasons for using it are not what it was when it was really just people moving or OOB people entering the old lottery trying to figure out which WOTP schools that fed to Deal. It may mean different things to different people today.

Key never fed to Deal. It was an acronym WOTPers that couldn’t afford private/Big3 came up with as code word for safe school with safe white upper class kids.

What?

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Anonymous wrote:Your plan would be lovely but is not fiscally possible. Your taxes would be through the roof if DCPS had 3 person MS or HS classes.

You don't seem to understand. Guarantee advanced classes even if there are only 4 students who show up, not make every DCPS classroom 4 students. That'd only add a handful of classes to one highschool; it's not going to have any perceptible impact on the $2.3 billion DCPS budget.

I understand what you meant. I am telling you DCPS cannot support classes with 3 or 4 kids in a class. I know you didn’t mean ALL classes would be 3 kids. It is not feasible and honestly would not work. That’s basically tutoring.

Let's face it, you can come up with other acronyms but they are never going to be as catchy as one that goes with the alphabet.

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Anonymous wrote:Your plan would be lovely but is not fiscally possible. Your taxes would be through the roof if DCPS had 3 person MS or HS classes.

You don't seem to understand. Guarantee advanced classes even if there are only 4 students who show up, not make every DCPS classroom 4 students. That'd only add a handful of classes to one highschool; it's not going to have any perceptible impact on the $2.3 billion DCPS budget.

ITA. Plus the moderate impact it will have on school costs will be more than made up by the enrollment increase that will happen when families realize they don't have to find other options for their higher performing children.