Eliot Hine

[Anonymous]

Oh please! The school is 85% FARMS and 80% OOB. Do what you want with the curriculum. Without a test-in magnet program there, the largely upper-middle-class hill population can only ignore the place. The neighborhood in the immediate vicinity has far too much low-income housing to draw in families from the affluent West Hill. There are enough bad middle schools to go around. No point in bothering. No brainer.

[Anonymous]

I think DCPS hopes the IB program will lure the whites to the school. That's the racist thinking of the blacks in charge at DCPS. Purely racial give the whites what they've been bitching about and they will send their children. Halleuja!!!!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Eliot Hine's budget for 2013-2014 will see a $684,778 decrease.
Eliot Hine's projected enrollment for 12-13 was 369. Eliot Hine's actual enrollment for 12-13 is 281.
Eliot Hine's projected enrollment for 13-14 is projected to decline to 271.
Where is the good news?

The good news is that this took care of a lot of the problems that plagued the school in 2011/12, when transitioning to a more student-centered environment and curriculum under brand new leadership that faced an excess of 50 students and not enough teachers. Eliot-Hine has it together, driven teachers, great team, fantastic IB coordinator, just an all around welcoming place to be. And I'm a fan of Mr. Birks, who runs EH radio station and teaches technology. And the fact of the matter is Eliot-Hine takes IB seriously, more so than Deal for instance. Students who come in with strong academics will be challenged at Eliot-Hine, I'm convinced of that and have done my part to check it out.

Not PP, I know, but whatever bitch is still bitching and race-baiting on these boards whenever EH floats to the top, girl, you're living in the past. Find yourself another past-time if watching TV all day bores you. Oh, and should you have forgotten since when you had kids that age, middleschoolers don't ride in strollers, they ride on bikes. Hope you're cool with that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Oh please! The school is 85% FARMS and 80% OOB. Do what you want with the curriculum. Without a test-in magnet program there, the largely upper-middle-class hill population can only ignore the place. The neighborhood in the immediate vicinity has far too much low-income housing to draw in families from the affluent West Hill. There are enough bad middle schools to go around. No point in bothering. No brainer.

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Thanks for not being PC! Who in their right mind wants their child to attend a school where 80% of the population is FARMS and out of boundary? However, no one wants to admit that a predominately black school with improverished students are the reasons they ignore Hine or the many other deplorable schools in Washington DC. People will make up all types of PC excuses instead of being honest. I'm black and there is no way in Hell I will send my children to Hine. There are reasons why parents flock to Deal, parochial, or private schools in DC. Even parents from non-affluent communities will prefer Deal over Hine. Affluent parents on The Hill have other options and Hine surely isn't one of them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Eliot Hine's budget for 2013-2014 will see a $684,778 decrease.
Eliot Hine's projected enrollment for 12-13 was 369. Eliot Hine's actual enrollment for 12-13 is 281.
Eliot Hine's projected enrollment for 13-14 is projected to decline to 271.
Where is the good news?

The good news is that this took care of a lot of the problems that plagued the school in 2011/12, when transitioning to a more student-centered environment and curriculum under brand new leadership that faced an excess of 50 students and not enough teachers. Eliot-Hine has it together, driven teachers, great team, fantastic IB coordinator, just an all around welcoming place to be. And I'm a fan of Mr. Birks, who runs EH radio station and teaches technology. And the fact of the matter is Eliot-Hine takes IB seriously, more so than Deal for instance. Students who come in with strong academics will be challenged at Eliot-Hine, I'm convinced of that and have done my part to check it out.

Not PP, I know, but whatever bitch is still bitching and race-baiting on these boards whenever EH floats to the top, girl, you're living in the past. Find yourself another past-time if watching TV all day bores you. Oh, and should you have forgotten since when you had kids that age, middleschoolers don't ride in strollers, they ride on bikes. Hope you're cool with that.

All right, I;m convinced! EH is on the verge of becoming the finest middle school in DC, perhaps the entire mid-Atlantic region. Boy, I bet the charters and privates are running for the hills.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Thanks for not being PC! Who in their right mind wants their child to attend a school where 80% of the population is FARMS and out of boundary? However, no one wants to admit that a predominately black school with impoverished students are the reasons they ignore Hine or the many other deplorable schools in Washington DC. People will make up all types of PC excuses instead of being honest. I'm black and there is no way in Hell I will send my children to Hine. There are reasons why parents flock to Deal, parochial, or private schools in DC. Even parents from non-affluent communities will prefer Deal over Hine. Affluent parents on The Hill have other options and Hine surely isn't one of them.

If we're done being politically correct, then let's not forget that these places that you flock to, the whites you encounter there in turn flock away from as the reality around them gets more diverse. Sad truth, I know. The irony: those whites who don't blink in the face of a little diversity benefit from it all. Meanwhile, you're missing out on good options for all the wrong reasons.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thanks for not being PC! Who in their right mind wants their child to attend a school where 80% of the population is FARMS and out of boundary? However, no one wants to admit that a predominately black school with impoverished students are the reasons they ignore Hine or the many other deplorable schools in Washington DC. People will make up all types of PC excuses instead of being honest. I'm black and there is no way in Hell I will send my children to Hine. There are reasons why parents flock to Deal, parochial, or private schools in DC. Even parents from non-affluent communities will prefer Deal over Hine. Affluent parents on The Hill have other options and Hine surely isn't one of them.

If we're done being politically correct, then let's not forget that these places that you flock to, the whites you encounter there in turn flock away from as the reality around them gets more diverse. Sad truth, I know. The irony: those whites who don't blink in the face of a little diversity benefit from it all. Meanwhile, you're missing out on good options for all the wrong reasons.

No one is fleeing diversity. They are fleeing poverty, low expectations and poor performance. Good luck with that.

[Anonymous]

Exactly. I would put my white child in Eliot Hine no matter what race or social class her classmates were if she had a large number of classmates who were doing academic work at reasonable levels and if I felt confident that the school/school system was functional. When the majority of the school is failing and the school system is largely dysfunctional, that makes it a no brainer. For parents of all races.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thanks for not being PC! Who in their right mind wants their child to attend a school where 80% of the population is FARMS and out of boundary? However, no one wants to admit that a predominately black school with impoverished students are the reasons they ignore Hine or the many other deplorable schools in Washington DC. People will make up all types of PC excuses instead of being honest. I'm black and there is no way in Hell I will send my children to Hine. There are reasons why parents flock to Deal, parochial, or private schools in DC. Even parents from non-affluent communities will prefer Deal over Hine. Affluent parents on The Hill have other options and Hine surely isn't one of them.

If we're done being politically correct, then let's not forget that these places that you flock to, the whites you encounter there in turn flock away from as the reality around them gets more diverse. Sad truth, I know. The irony: those whites who don't blink in the face of a little diversity benefit from it all. Meanwhile, you're missing out on good options for all the wrong reasons.

No one is fleeing diversity. They are fleeing poverty, low expectations and poor performance. Good luck with that.

Exactly what "all" would so-called "whites" be "benefit[ting]" from? Pray tell!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Neither IB families nor those in its feeder schools have to do the lottery. (Duh.)

No need for the snark. I haven't followed DCPS middle school lotteries before.

I still don't understand why Eliot Hine doesn't have more interest. They are going International Baccalaureate, its feeder schools are pushing hard for enrollment, they've got a marketing campaign ongoing, its feeder schools have improving test scores and increasing enrollment . . .

Hardy has a wait list of 131. Deal - which isn't even opening any of its slots up to out of bounds students - has a wait list of 136. Stuart Hobson has a waiting list of 79. Plus DCPS closed a couple of middle schools, and those students need to go somewhere.

If you can't get into Deal or hardy or Stuart Hobson, wouldn't Eliot Hine be the next school on your list? Why isn't it as popular is one might think it should be?

Why isn't it as popular as you think it should be? Because the choices are Deal, Latin, Basis. Hardy, SH, and EH are not on the list.

[Anonymous]

Let's see: Stuart Hobson is something in the low 70% of students on grade level or above and Eliot Hine has something like 38% on grade level , with about 20% way below grade level. That's why it is not next after not getting in to other middle schools.

[Anonymous]

Just checked: 24% of Eliot Hine students read at grade level. That's one out of four able to read at a 6th, 7th or 8th grade level. 23% are several grade levels behind. We can infer what this means for their ability to tackle a social studies, history or science text.

Hooray. New curriculum, new teachers and a radio station. Let's see some results. Those kids have been miserably failed up to this point. I truly pray all the improvements at Eliot Hine will serve them well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Thanks for not being PC! Who in their right mind wants their child to attend a school where 80% of the population is FARMS and out of boundary? However, no one wants to admit that a predominately black school with impoverished students are the reasons they ignore Hine or the many other deplorable schools in Washington DC. People will make up all types of PC excuses instead of being honest. I'm black and there is no way in Hell I will send my children to Hine. There are reasons why parents flock to Deal, parochial, or private schools in DC. Even parents from non-affluent communities will prefer Deal over Hine. Affluent parents on The Hill have other options and Hine surely isn't one of them.

If we're done being politically correct, then let's not forget that these places that you flock to, the whites you encounter there in turn flock away from as the reality around them gets more diverse. Sad truth, I know. The irony: those whites who don't blink in the face of a little diversity benefit from it all. Meanwhile, you're missing out on good options for all the wrong reasons.

It's not a sad truth to me. It is a reality. It's a reality that people want different things for their children. I'm cool with that. What are the benefits of sending your child to a dysfunctional school? Please tell me. Hine is like 99% Black. That doesn't sound like diversity to me. There are better options for diversity in DC. I don't think parents should ignore safety, security, academics, the overall school environment, etc. all for the sake of diversity either. Diversity becomes mute if your child is attending a school that is horrific.



Well, good luck on sending your child to Hine. I truly wish you the best!

[Anonymous]

Now there's are charter schools with over 75% FARM and they are posting proficiency of 90% and above. So the question of who in their right mind would send someone to a school with such a large percentages of FARMS. Yeah, I would like to see these foolish people for myself, I betcha they are black.

[Anonymous]

Right, so if Eliot Hine could pull off 90% proficiency we might be on to something. In the meantime, it is just proof that DCPS and Eliot Hine don't know how to educate the children in their system and gives me no confidence and no reason to sign up my child. The charter school you mention? Much more likely.