What will you do if you don't get into BASIS/Latin?

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Anonymous wrote:I have heard Eliot Hine is improving and gaining traction with IB families? But I would after Friday figure out what your 6th grade lottery list might look like. If you significantly prefer and would be happy with one of the other DCPS middle schools, look for a post-lottery 5th grade spot at a feeder. No matter what you do (even returning for 5th with no real plan), you will not be the only one even if it may feel that way.

There seem to be a handful of loud EH boosters who struck out in the lottery and are trying to make EH a thing. We know one of these families IRL (I’m convinced the mom posts on every EH thread in this forum) and the kid tells a very different story than the parents. A lot of violence, disruption and poor academics.

[Anonymous]

You heard “terrible things” about Eliot-Hine? We are there now. It’s not “terrible.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have heard Eliot Hine is improving and gaining traction with IB families? But I would after Friday figure out what your 6th grade lottery list might look like. If you significantly prefer and would be happy with one of the other DCPS middle schools, look for a post-lottery 5th grade spot at a feeder. No matter what you do (even returning for 5th with no real plan), you will not be the only one even if it may feel that way.

There seem to be a handful of loud EH boosters who struck out in the lottery and are trying to make EH a thing. We know one of these families IRL (I’m convinced the mom posts on every EH thread in this forum) and the kid tells a very different story than the parents. A lot of violence, disruption and poor academics.

I’m not that mom. I have some things I am not thrilled about, but I have heard zero about violence and disruption at the school. In fact the school is extremely well organized when it comes to monitoring behavior and where the kids are at any one time and seems much more on top of that than the elementary school was by the end. My kid also comes home regularly talking about something he learned or did at school. The teachers are super responsive in general and a few have really gone above and beyond.

If you don’t have a kid there I wonder what motivates you to be an anti-booster?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You heard “terrible things” about Eliot-Hine? We are there now. It’s not “terrible.”

84% of the kids are below grade level in math. What would you call that?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Go to Wells (IB) for middle and lottery for HS options unless Coolidge does something miraculous. . .

Why would Wells be better than EH? EH has slightly higher PARCC scores if that’s your metric.

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We'll have a pipe burst in our house the summer before sixth and need to temporarily relocate IB for Deal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You heard “terrible things” about Eliot-Hine? We are there now. It’s not “terrible.”

84% of the kids are below grade level in math. What would you call that?

If that’s your metric you can move, not gonna stop you. But perhaps you should have thought of that before. Meanwhile the parents staying are figuring things out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We'll have a pipe burst in our house the summer before sixth and need to temporarily relocate IB for Deal.

How will your kid get to Deal every day when your pipes get fixed? Sounds kind of miserable.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We'll have a pipe burst in our house the summer before sixth and need to temporarily relocate IB for Deal.

How will your kid get to Deal every day when your pipes get fixed? Sounds kind of miserable.

The Deal bus, which is walkable from our house, assuming the bus line doesn't get cut. Our bad middle school option isn't EH.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have heard Eliot Hine is improving and gaining traction with IB families? But I would after Friday figure out what your 6th grade lottery list might look like. If you significantly prefer and would be happy with one of the other DCPS middle schools, look for a post-lottery 5th grade spot at a feeder. No matter what you do (even returning for 5th with no real plan), you will not be the only one even if it may feel that way.

There seem to be a handful of loud EH boosters who struck out in the lottery and are trying to make EH a thing. We know one of these families IRL (I’m convinced the mom posts on every EH thread in this forum) and the kid tells a very different story than the parents. A lot of violence, disruption and poor academics.

I’m not that mom. I have some things I am not thrilled about, but I have heard zero about violence and disruption at the school. In fact the school is extremely well organized when it comes to monitoring behavior and where the kids are at any one time and seems much more on top of that than the elementary school was by the end. My kid also comes home regularly talking about something he learned or did at school. The teachers are super responsive in general and a few have really gone above and beyond.

If you don’t have a kid there I wonder what motivates you to be an anti-booster?

Also not that mom, but to echo the earlier poster, I'm sure there are parents that aren't happy at EH. There are many of families (mine included) who did not lottery and chose to go to the school where our kids could walk or ride bikes to. Agree with a prior poster and something I have seen on other threads, I think that the middle school is more equipped to handle preteen/teen behavior than elementary schools, and while I am sure there are some disruptive kids, I also have been hearing more about the sports teams, the plays, the band, what they are reading in English, their recent field trip etc. Before uprooting your whole family/kid , my two cents is to actually make the effort to find people that aren't unhappy with the school and talk to them and then make an informed decision instead of being influenced by a reinforcing circle of negative speak.
Again that can apply to any school, and back to all the various threads this time of year, the grass is always greener. There are rose colored glasses. Nothing is perfect. People will feel left out, people will 'lose' or 'win' to only realize every school has a different version of good things and problems.

And to echo something from a different thread recently, I would love if parents had these conversations out of earshot of their kids. It is sad/divisive/inappropriate to have kids comparing notes or parroting with their parents say on the playground about who is 'good' v 'bad'.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Go to Wells (IB) for middle and lottery for HS options unless Coolidge does something miraculous. . .

Why would Wells be better than EH? EH has slightly higher PARCC scores if that’s your metric.

OP asked for other’s plan. I’m not inbound for EH.

[Anonymous]

Staying at our ES for 5th (which, honestly, is what our kid wants to do; there's a lot of fun stuff in 5th grade) & trying Stuart-Hobson. I am optimistic, but not totally convinced.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You heard “terrible things” about Eliot-Hine? We are there now. It’s not “terrible.”

Found the booster mom.

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You heard “terrible things” about Eliot-Hine? We are there now. It’s not “terrible.”

84% of the kids are below grade level in math. What would you call that?

Terrible.

[Anonymous]

EH has an algebra class with a very high PARCC proficiency rate. One of the highest in the city. They're doing something right.