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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:+1. Hadn't thought in those terms but, yes, the red polo shirts draw one's attention to how badly behaved groups of S-H kids often are in the neighborhood. When I drive by KIPP middle schools at times when groups of kids are exiting, I don't see such rowdiness on display. Good for you for contacting Clemons - we should have done that.

As a longtime neighbor to Stuart Hobson, it seems that the behavior has gotten worse in the past few years. Perhaps I should say it's right back to where it was when we moved to the neighborhood, over a dozen years ago. I think the principal is an idiot letting the kids hang out, unsupervised, on the front step in the morning. A pack of middle school kids with no adult supervision is asking for trouble.

Does anyone here honestly think the Cluster hierarchy cares about the Capitol Hill neighborhood? Please tell.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:+1. Hadn't thought in those terms but, yes, the red polo shirts draw one's attention to how badly behaved groups of S-H kids often are in the neighborhood. When I drive by KIPP middle schools at times when groups of kids are exiting, I don't see such rowdiness on display. Good for you for contacting Clemons - we should have done that.

As a longtime neighbor to Stuart Hobson, it seems that the behavior has gotten worse in the past few years. Perhaps I should say it's right back to where it was when we moved to the neighborhood, over a dozen years ago. I think the principal is an idiot letting the kids hang out, unsupervised, on the front step in the morning. A pack of middle school kids with no adult supervision is asking for trouble.

So they get ripped for being truants, but they also get ripped for being punctual? Try shaking your fist and telling them to get off your lawn. That always does the trick.

[Anonymous]

Do you live within a block or two of S-H? If you don't, you have no clue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I've toured Eliot-Hine to take a look, in part, because the Cluster leadership and DCPS seemingly have done everything within their power to make sure my family will never attend Stuart-Hobson, which is within walking distance of our home. Sorry, but not at all impressed. Same with Jefferson. Too much focus on remediation for students who arrive unprepared for academic rigor and no track record of supporting higher achieving students. Ward 6 middle schools may talk a good game but test scores tell a different story.

Even if the academics were better at these middle schools, I wouldn't be OK with the peer group. We lived around the corner from Hobson and until recently. Over the years in NE, I grew weary of listening to students shout foul language from sidewalks and the playground, and of watching kids trip, push and thump one another while screaming or scarfing down junk food. We watched police race up to the school in squad cars too many times, charging in to break up a playground fight, make a drugs related arrest outside or whatever. Hobson is supposed to be the high-SES friendly school in the triumvirate. Sorry, but not impressed like the pp above.

Junk food! Sacre bleu.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I've toured Eliot-Hine to take a look, in part, because the Cluster leadership and DCPS seemingly have done everything within their power to make sure my family will never attend Stuart-Hobson, which is within walking distance of our home. Sorry, but not at all impressed. Same with Jefferson. Too much focus on remediation for students who arrive unprepared for academic rigor and no track record of supporting higher achieving students. Ward 6 middle schools may talk a good game but test scores tell a different story.

Even if the academics were better at these middle schools, I wouldn't be OK with the peer group. We lived around the corner from Hobson and until recently. Over the years in NE, I grew weary of listening to students shout foul language from sidewalks and the playground, and of watching kids trip, push and thump one another while screaming or scarfing down junk food. We watched police race up to the school in squad cars too many times, charging in to break up a playground fight, make a drugs related arrest outside or whatever. Hobson is supposed to be the high-SES friendly school in the triumvirate. Sorry, but not impressed like the pp above.

Junk food! Sacre bleu.

+1. Wasn't the SH graduation speak about how not to become fat sex addicts? Junk food would be part of that...... How much does it take for the principal or AP to get out there and make sure things run smoothly and all are well behaved? Why else get a paycheck?

[Anonymous]

SH doesn't seem to have a student council/safety monitors program, which might work just as well. You see student leaders in monitors gear out on sidewalks near KIPP schools.

SH had more well-behaved kids when the 5th grade was still there, meaning more high SES and parent involvement.

[Anonymous]

One of the first things Melissa Kim did as principal at Deal was to crack down on the behavior of students before and after school in the surrounding community. She took a lot of flak from complaints that she was racist as a result, but our experience at Deal was that the children knew they were held to very strict standards and generally complied with them.

I see and hear nothing comparable at Stuart-Hobson or Eliot-Hine, and have also witnessed student behavior both inside and around those schools that has previously and would continue to make me extremely, extremely reluctant to send our Capitol Hill children there.

[Anonymous]

+100.

[Anonymous]

Melissa crack downed but the school is predominantly AA back then and is now.

The school that you don't want, just might not want you. School choice is not a slogan...choose another school, good riddance. My word, we get it you've seen something that worries you and your unable to land your helicopter.

[Anonymous]

^^^ Low standards. Failure. Whatever....

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Melissa crack downed but the school is predominantly AA back then and is now.

The school that you don't want, just might not want you. School choice is not a slogan...choose another school, good riddance. My word, we get it you've seen something that worries you and your unable to land your helicopter.

Where have you been Word Salad?!??

I see you have moved onto threads about Eastern Feeder schools.

Please remember everyone-- the school may not want you. That is illegal and all but whatever. Word Salad here to make some racist statements!!

[Anonymous]

My money is that Word Salad is a nonresident DCPS administrator at the Cluster. He\she is not a public servant and ought to just check out and let us have a real neighborhood.

[Anonymous]

I actually think he/she works at Eastern.

[Anonymous]

A DCPS troll, nonetheless, that's an administrator who doesn't have the neighborhood's best interests at heart. Good riddance to the worthless troll.

[Anonymous]

When the parents don't give a damn you can't school that