Brent to Watkins to Hobson

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Anonymous wrote:Have you heard that Jefferson was relaunched as an Academy to attract Brent families only a few years ago. Been there done that. Brent parents need to come to terms with the fact that BASIS is the only real option for most. Does anyone really believe that SH to Eastern is the pathway to future academic success.

In truth, what matters to most who opt for Stuart-Hobson as their path to success is that it's the best proven pathway IN WARD 6, 7, or 8 to School Without Walls, Banneker, McKinley Tech, Duke Ellington, and many private high schools. And, yes, I don't doubt it will also prove to be best way to get into Eastern's selective IB Diploma track. (IB = International Baccalaureate)

Fixed that for you, PP

Nice try but your "correction" makes my sentence not true. If you look at proportions of students attending application high schools, Stuart-Hobson comes out atop Deal, if that's what you had in mind. Now, of course, you'll surely tell me that Deal has a better alternative in Wilson, hence fewer (in %) look to those schools. Doesn't matter to me though if I want my child in, say, School Without Walls or McKinley Tech not at Wilson. So my claim stands:

"In truth, what matters to most who opt for Stuart-Hobson as their path to success is that it's the best proven pathway to School Without Walls, Banneker, McKinley Tech, Duke Ellington, and many private high schools. And, yes, I don't doubt it will also prove to be best way to get into Eastern's selective IB Diploma track. (IB = International Baccalaureate)"

PP has Kool-Aid problems and spouts disingenuous propaganda. Those kids from Deal are probably going to private high schools because they want to learn and not get beat on. I know you have a high tolerance for school violence, but most of us don't.

The better analysis between Deal and SH would be what percentage of kids from Deal and SH ultimately graduate from high school. You'll find it's like comparing a McMansion to a shit shack, respectively. Wow that Bac at Eastern, I'll be there right after you. Will they get reciprocity in France or is this just more newspeak? Careful, talking about Eastern will bring out Word Salad.

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The IBO (accrediting body of IB) is in Geneva, which - last I checked - is in Switzerland not France. The US office is in Bethesda: http://www.ibo.org/

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+ 34,571

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- 50,000. Whatever.

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Back to the original topic, why not just Brent to SH without having to detour via Watkins? Why can't the Hill have a neighborhood school?

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Because the Cluster leadership and Central Office are opposed, repeatedly taking the position that there simply isn't enough room at SH. Nevertheless, DCPS was able to fimd room to add JO Wilson and Ludlow-Taylor as part of the Ward 6 Middle School Planning Initiative back in 2010. Brent parents were cautiously optimistic that DCPS could build a rigorous academic program with a Chinese language instruction component as part of the relaunch of Jefferson, but we can see what happened.
http://dcps.dc.gov/DCPS/Files/downloads/COMMUNITY/Ward%206/DCPS-Ward-6-Comprehensive-Feedback-Summary.pdf

In the end, Rhee and Henderson tried to throw Brent a bone by offering a dual-feed to Eliot- Hime so that Bret parents could coalesce with Maury parents. .

Additionally, in the absence of a middle school promoted as the second best in the City, Watkins no longer has an OOB constituency to fill its classrooms. Maybe this wouldn't be a bad thing if DCPS could convert Watkins to a middle school and then convert Stuart-Hobson to an elementary incorporating Peabody. The latter could then be home to a charter. Too radical? Perhaps.

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Anonymous wrote:Because the Cluster leadership and Central Office are opposed, repeatedly taking the position that there simply isn't enough room at SH. Nevertheless, DCPS was able to fimd room to add JO Wilson and Ludlow-Taylor as part of the Ward 6 Middle School Planning Initiative back in 2010. Brent parents were cautiously optimistic that DCPS could build a rigorous academic program with a Chinese language instruction component as part of the relaunch of Jefferson, but we can see what happened.
http://dcps.dc.gov/DCPS/Files/downloads/COMMUNITY/Ward%206/DCPS-Ward-6-Comprehensive-Feedback-Summary.pdf

In the end, Rhee and Henderson tried to throw Brent a bone by offering a dual-feed to Eliot- Hime so that Bret parents could coalesce with Maury parents. .

Additionally, in the absence of a middle school promoted as the second best in the City, Watkins no longer has an OOB constituency to fill its classrooms. Maybe this wouldn't be a bad thing if DCPS could convert Watkins to a middle school and then convert Stuart-Hobson to an elementary incorporating Peabody. The latter could then be home to a charter. Too radical? Perhaps.

PP, you have very good ideas and have evidently thought a lot about this. I have to question whether the Cluster PTA leadership actually represents the interests of those IB to the "Cluster," as the Cluster leadership lives OOB to the Cluster and shuns their Title 1 school L-T for some bizarre reason. The Cluster is so heavily OOB, it's become a case of the outside running the inside, a/k/a ass-backwards. There is no longer any representation of the IB population. I wouldn't mind so much if the Cluster were a magnet school for advanced learners, but it's not at all.

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Anonymous wrote:Because the Cluster leadership and Central Office are opposed, repeatedly taking the position that there simply isn't enough room at SH. Nevertheless, DCPS was able to fimd room to add JO Wilson and Ludlow-Taylor as part of the Ward 6 Middle School Planning Initiative back in 2010. Brent parents were cautiously optimistic that DCPS could build a rigorous academic program with a Chinese language instruction component as part of the relaunch of Jefferson, but we can see what happened.
http://dcps.dc.gov/DCPS/Files/downloads/COMMUNITY/Ward%206/DCPS-Ward-6-Comprehensive-Feedback-Summary.pdf

In the end, Rhee and Henderson tried to throw Brent a bone by offering a dual-feed to Eliot- Hime so that Bret parents could coalesce with Maury parents. .

Additionally, in the absence of a middle school promoted as the second best in the City, Watkins no longer has an OOB constituency to fill its classrooms. Maybe this wouldn't be a bad thing if DCPS could convert Watkins to a middle school and then convert Stuart-Hobson to an elementary incorporating Peabody. The latter could then be home to a charter. Too radical? Perhaps.

PP, you have very good ideas and have evidently thought a lot about this. I have to question whether the Cluster PTA leadership actually represents the interests of those IB to the "Cluster," as the Cluster leadership lives OOB to the Cluster and shuns their Title 1 school L-T for some bizarre reason. The Cluster is so heavily OOB, it's become a case of the outside running the inside, a/k/a ass-backwards. There is no longer any representation of the IB population. I wouldn't mind so much if the Cluster were a magnet school for advanced learners, but it's not at all.

The current and previous Cluster PTA President both are IB and send their daughters to the schools, so I don't know what you are talking about. Now, why Clemens and DCPS have screwed this up so totally, I don't know, but the PTA isn't the group of OOB parents it used to be 10 years ago.

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^^^^ IB to LT and hence SH, but not Peabody or Watkins.

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Anonymous wrote: ^^^^ IB to LT and hence SH, but not Peabody or Watkins.

Just to put your idiotic canard to rest, when the current PTA president was first enrolling in PK4 his oldest in Peabody,the system still showed if you were in-bounds and proximity to SH, you had IB enrollment at Peabody and Watkins. That was almost ten years ago. So IB by rights when they started.

The previous two PTA presidents are also IB for the Cluster, not LT. One is IB to P the other to Watkins.

I'm not any of them but served with them all for several years on the PTA and I am IB to Watkins.

Regardless, those who are on this and other PTAs are committed to their schools no matter if IB, OOB, whatever. Some of the IB LT PTA members also have proximity to Peabody: are they less committed to the Cluster as a neighborhood school? You have issues.

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Anonymous wrote: ^^^^ IB to LT and hence SH, but not Peabody or Watkins.

Just to put your idiotic canard to rest, when the current PTA president was first enrolling in PK4 his oldest in Peabody,the system still showed if you were in-bounds and proximity to SH, you had IB enrollment at Peabody and Watkins. That was almost ten years ago. So IB by rights when they started.

The previous two PTA presidents are also IB for the Cluster, not LT. One is IB to P the other to Watkins.

I'm not any of them but served with them all for several years on the PTA and I am IB to Watkins.

Regardless, those who are on this and other PTAs are committed to their schools no matter if IB, OOB, whatever. Some of the IB LT PTA members also have proximity to Peabody: are they less committed to the Cluster as a neighborhood school? You have issues.

+1 the current problems with the cluster have more to do with Eatman and Clemens than with the recent past pta presidents.

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Anonymous wrote: ^^^^ IB to LT and hence SH, but not Peabody or Watkins.

Just to put your idiotic canard to rest, when the current PTA president was first enrolling in PK4 his oldest in Peabody,the system still showed if you were in-bounds and proximity to SH, you had IB enrollment at Peabody and Watkins. That was almost ten years ago. So IB by rights when they started.

The previous two PTA presidents are also IB for the Cluster, not LT. One is IB to P the other to Watkins.

I'm not any of them but served with them all for several years on the PTA and I am IB to Watkins.

Regardless, those who are on this and other PTAs are committed to their schools no matter if IB, OOB, whatever. Some of the IB LT PTA members also have proximity to Peabody: are they less committed to the Cluster as a neighborhood school? You have issues.

Translation: PTA Pres. is currently OOB. So is the rest of the current leadership. Why would someone OOB try to grow a neighborhood school? It's counter to self-interest.