What elementary school on The Hill?

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Anonymous wrote:Jefferson won't become a "desirable" school for parents on the hill until there are more white kids going there.

or it gets transplanted to the actual Hill

look -- Eliot Hine and Stuart Hobson don't get a lot of love from the Hill, but those are the schools Hill families are working towards improving because they are both on the Hill (and not 2.5 miles from our homes). The demographics of EH and SH are crystal clear in calling out BS on your theory on Jefferson needing white kids.

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Anonymous wrote:Jefferson won't become a "desirable" school for parents on the hill until there are more white kids going there.

or it gets transplanted to the actual Hill

look -- Eliot Hine and Stuart Hobson don't get a lot of love from the Hill, but those are the schools Hill families are working towards improving because they are both on the Hill (and not 2.5 miles from our homes). The demographics of EH and SH are crystal clear in calling out BS on your theory on Jefferson needing white kids.

What are you talking about? SH is 9% white -- that's nearly 40 kids, certainly enough to assuage parental fears of their child being an "only." EH, on the other hand, is 0% white.

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No one is going to Jefferson from Tyler traditional? I find that hard to believe, PP.

Not the PP, but I don't find it hard to believe. Why would kids at Tyler go to Jefferson when E-H is closer and far more convenient? Plus, E-H is on the Hill and Jefferson isn't.

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Anonymous wrote:Jefferson is neither a) an elementary school or b) on the Hill. Maybe this belongs in another thread

But isn't it germane because the articulation of feeder patterns directly effects elementary schools?

If Hill elementary schools feed into it then by definition it is a Hill school. If you disagree with the logic then take it up with the geniuses at DCPS who designed the feeder patttern.

Irrefutable logic?

Dated by a few years but I bet it's still applicable. Total students at Jefferson from the Hill? "Few students". Total students at Jefferson from "Near Southeast/Navy Yard"? "Few students"

http://edu.codefordc.org/#!/school/433

Respectfully, no. Nothing about schools on the Hill is the same as it was a few years ago. Brent is now waitlisting siblings. LT is IB only. Premise summarily rejected.

Sorry -- you're living in a fantasy world if you think Jefferson is currently attracting Hill students, irrespective of assigned feeder. IF any students enroll through existing feeder it's not the IB kids. Sorry -- you're just wrong.

No one is going to Jefferson from Tyler traditional? I find that hard to believe, PP.

Beliefs are often belied by actual data. If you had taken the time to examine the boundary participation data made public as part of the boundary review process you would have learned that, at most, only a de minimis number (fewer than five) of families living IB for each of the former Hine and Eliot attendance zones may be attending Jefferson.

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Anonymous wrote:Jefferson won't become a "desirable" school for parents on the hill until there are more white kids going there.

or it gets transplanted to the actual Hill

look -- Eliot Hine and Stuart Hobson don't get a lot of love from the Hill, but those are the schools Hill families are working towards improving because they are both on the Hill (and not 2.5 miles from our homes). The demographics of EH and SH are crystal clear in calling out BS on your theory on Jefferson needing white kids.

Stop painting with such a broad brush. "Hill families" are Balkanized. Some Maury parents have been working to improve Eliot-Hine. Cluster (Peabody/Watkins) families are working to improve Stuart-Hobson. Some parents with younger kids at Brent have started working with the principal at Jefferson. I seem to recall hearing about a single white kid moving from Maury to EH in the past year or two. Am I wrong?

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Imagine if we could combine into one big school with multiple "lanes" of academic offerings. It would be like....Alice Deal Middle School. That's what I want my politicians to work on, not this begging for frigging construction money

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Anonymous wrote:Jefferson won't become a "desirable" school for parents on the hill until there are more white kids going there.

or it gets transplanted to the actual Hill

look -- Eliot Hine and Stuart Hobson don't get a lot of love from the Hill, but those are the schools Hill families are working towards improving because they are both on the Hill (and not 2.5 miles from our homes). The demographics of EH and SH are crystal clear in calling out BS on your theory on Jefferson needing white kids.

Stop painting with such a broad brush. "Hill families" are Balkanized. Some Maury parents have been working to improve Eliot-Hine. Cluster (Peabody/Watkins) families are working to improve Stuart-Hobson. Some parents with younger kids at Brent have started working with the principal at Jefferson. I seem to recall hearing about a single white kid moving from Maury to EH in the past year or two. Am I wrong?

There is a white, middle class, student at E-H who went there from Maury. S/he seems very happy.