Hill Middle Schools

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Anonymous wrote:You're not wrong but I'm a little surprised by how many neighborhood families seem OK with Eliot-Hine, Jefferson Academy and Stuart Hobson these days though. I'm not hearing too many complaints from friends and neighbors who are using these schools, most of them UMC and white.

There are stats on this that were posted recently. It’s actually not that many families choosing their IB middle school, no matter what boosters like you post (repeatedly).

Give me a break. I'm no booster. My children attend a parochial middle school in VA. I've been fed up with our DCPS ES post Covid, thrilled that we only have one week of 5th grade left. But I'm genuinely surprised by how many of the brainy families we've known on the Hill for many years are actually sending their children to Eliot Hine, Jefferson or Stuart Hobson for 6th or 7th grade. You don't have to be a booster to notice the uptick in Hill enrollment or to comment on it here.

Your alleged surprise doesn’t trump the actual numbers, which actually tell the opposite story.

I know quite a few parents who are sending their kids to Stuart Hobson and Eliot. None of them have kids who are really academic achievers so they feel comfortable in a low key environment where academics isn’t such a priority.

Ha, you might group my kid in there, but I’d gladly share his IQ tests to disabuse you of that notion … The kids I know going to EH come from very accomplished families who are comfortable with EH likely because of that.

Why?

Because they don’t think their kid needs to be hothoused/tiger-mommed to succeed. I don’t necessarily share that view entirely but for various reasons we are trying it out. Believe me when I tell you some very, very bright kids will be going.

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Anonymous wrote:You're not wrong but I'm a little surprised by how many neighborhood families seem OK with Eliot-Hine, Jefferson Academy and Stuart Hobson these days though. I'm not hearing too many complaints from friends and neighbors who are using these schools, most of them UMC and white.

There are stats on this that were posted recently. It’s actually not that many families choosing their IB middle school, no matter what boosters like you post (repeatedly).

Give me a break. I'm no booster. My children attend a parochial middle school in VA. I've been fed up with our DCPS ES post Covid, thrilled that we only have one week of 5th grade left. But I'm genuinely surprised by how many of the brainy families we've known on the Hill for many years are actually sending their children to Eliot Hine, Jefferson or Stuart Hobson for 6th or 7th grade. You don't have to be a booster to notice the uptick in Hill enrollment or to comment on it here.

Your alleged surprise doesn’t trump the actual numbers, which actually tell the opposite story.

I know quite a few parents who are sending their kids to Stuart Hobson and Eliot. None of them have kids who are really academic achievers so they feel comfortable in a low key environment where academics isn’t such a priority.

Ha, you might group my kid in there, but I’d gladly share his IQ tests to disabuse you of that notion … The kids I know going to EH come from very accomplished families who are comfortable with EH likely because of that.

You’re responding to me but it wasn’t my intention to imply your kid is not intelligent. I’m sure that there are some bright kids! I said that parents were comfortable sending them there because they weren’t that interested in making academics a priority. Those are two different things.

You should also be aware that if you’re okay making academics less of a priority it’s possibly due to your massive privilege. I’m certain this isn’t the case for the non white kids that attend these schools.

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Anonymous wrote:You're not wrong but I'm a little surprised by how many neighborhood families seem OK with Eliot-Hine, Jefferson Academy and Stuart Hobson these days though. I'm not hearing too many complaints from friends and neighbors who are using these schools, most of them UMC and white.

There are stats on this that were posted recently. It’s actually not that many families choosing their IB middle school, no matter what boosters like you post (repeatedly).

Give me a break. I'm no booster. My children attend a parochial middle school in VA. I've been fed up with our DCPS ES post Covid, thrilled that we only have one week of 5th grade left. But I'm genuinely surprised by how many of the brainy families we've known on the Hill for many years are actually sending their children to Eliot Hine, Jefferson or Stuart Hobson for 6th or 7th grade. You don't have to be a booster to notice the uptick in Hill enrollment or to comment on it here.

Your alleged surprise doesn’t trump the actual numbers, which actually tell the opposite story.

I know quite a few parents who are sending their kids to Stuart Hobson and Eliot. None of them have kids who are really academic achievers so they feel comfortable in a low key environment where academics isn’t such a priority.

Ha, you might group my kid in there, but I’d gladly share his IQ tests to disabuse you of that notion … The kids I know going to EH come from very accomplished families who are comfortable with EH likely because of that.

Why?

Because they don’t think their kid needs to be hothoused/tiger-mommed to succeed. I don’t necessarily share that view entirely but for various reasons we are trying it out. Believe me when I tell you some very, very bright kids will be going.

As a brown person, it’s always been my perception that these kids scoop up all the advantages that should be going to the brown kids, while allowing their parents to pretend to be super woke and brag to their other white friends. I find it disgusting. But that’s just my opinion (and I am totally certain I’m not alone!).

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Anonymous wrote:You're not wrong but I'm a little surprised by how many neighborhood families seem OK with Eliot-Hine, Jefferson Academy and Stuart Hobson these days though. I'm not hearing too many complaints from friends and neighbors who are using these schools, most of them UMC and white.

There are stats on this that were posted recently. It’s actually not that many families choosing their IB middle school, no matter what boosters like you post (repeatedly).

Give me a break. I'm no booster. My children attend a parochial middle school in VA. I've been fed up with our DCPS ES post Covid, thrilled that we only have one week of 5th grade left. But I'm genuinely surprised by how many of the brainy families we've known on the Hill for many years are actually sending their children to Eliot Hine, Jefferson or Stuart Hobson for 6th or 7th grade. You don't have to be a booster to notice the uptick in Hill enrollment or to comment on it here.

Your alleged surprise doesn’t trump the actual numbers, which actually tell the opposite story.

I know quite a few parents who are sending their kids to Stuart Hobson and Eliot. None of them have kids who are really academic achievers so they feel comfortable in a low key environment where academics isn’t such a priority.

Ha, you might group my kid in there, but I’d gladly share his IQ tests to disabuse you of that notion … The kids I know going to EH come from very accomplished families who are comfortable with EH likely because of that.

Why?

Because they don’t think their kid needs to be hothoused/tiger-mommed to succeed. I don’t necessarily share that view entirely but for various reasons we are trying it out. Believe me when I tell you some very, very bright kids will be going.

That's an interesting perspective. One of the reasons we went private is because we don't want to do extensive supplementation/tiger-momming, and felt like that would be necessary if we went to our IB MS.

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Oh honey. There's a 20-year history of trying to organize this.

What is the main roadblock? I keep hearing that it's been tried but there has to be something Hill families can do, unless it's just a waiting game...If it's an issue of UMC families being too small a slice in W6, then yes, I guess there's nothing to be done about that, but it seems like ending OOB and 'feeder right's would solve a lot of problems. Putting the onus on other, historically UMC wards to bridge the gap for quality education just doesn't make sense to me, and based on the scores, doesn't seem to be working...

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Anonymous wrote:You're not wrong but I'm a little surprised by how many neighborhood families seem OK with Eliot-Hine, Jefferson Academy and Stuart Hobson these days though. I'm not hearing too many complaints from friends and neighbors who are using these schools, most of them UMC and white.

There are stats on this that were posted recently. It’s actually not that many families choosing their IB middle school, no matter what boosters like you post (repeatedly).

Give me a break. I'm no booster. My children attend a parochial middle school in VA. I've been fed up with our DCPS ES post Covid, thrilled that we only have one week of 5th grade left. But I'm genuinely surprised by how many of the brainy families we've known on the Hill for many years are actually sending their children to Eliot Hine, Jefferson or Stuart Hobson for 6th or 7th grade. You don't have to be a booster to notice the uptick in Hill enrollment or to comment on it here.

Your alleged surprise doesn’t trump the actual numbers, which actually tell the opposite story.

I know quite a few parents who are sending their kids to Stuart Hobson and Eliot. None of them have kids who are really academic achievers so they feel comfortable in a low key environment where academics isn’t such a priority.

Ha, you might group my kid in there, but I’d gladly share his IQ tests to disabuse you of that notion … The kids I know going to EH come from very accomplished families who are comfortable with EH likely because of that.

Why?

Because they don’t think their kid needs to be hothoused/tiger-mommed to succeed. I don’t necessarily share that view entirely but for various reasons we are trying it out. Believe me when I tell you some very, very bright kids will be going.

As a brown person, it’s always been my perception that these kids scoop up all the advantages that should be going to the brown kids, while allowing their parents to pretend to be super woke and brag to their other white friends. I find it disgusting. But that’s just my opinion (and I am totally certain I’m not alone!).

What specifically are those advantages, and why should they be going to "the brown kids"?

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Oh honey. There's a 20-year history of trying to organize this.

What is the main roadblock? I keep hearing that it's been tried but there has to be something Hill families can do, unless it's just a waiting game...If it's an issue of UMC families being too small a slice in W6, then yes, I guess there's nothing to be done about that, but it seems like ending OOB and 'feeder right's would solve a lot of problems. Putting the onus on other, historically UMC wards to bridge the gap for quality education just doesn't make sense to me, and based on the scores, doesn't seem to be working...

There's a legal decree that DCPS has to offer its OOB seats in the lottery. They can't just stop. And it wouldn't work anyway-- if people IB for S-H lose their rights to go to better schools, they'll just move away.

The thing that would work (sort of) is offering a lot of above-grade-level classes, but they're not willing to do that because the classes would be disproportionately white kids, and because it's expensive. So, here we are.

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Anonymous wrote:You're not wrong but I'm a little surprised by how many neighborhood families seem OK with Eliot-Hine, Jefferson Academy and Stuart Hobson these days though. I'm not hearing too many complaints from friends and neighbors who are using these schools, most of them UMC and white.

There are stats on this that were posted recently. It’s actually not that many families choosing their IB middle school, no matter what boosters like you post (repeatedly).

Give me a break. I'm no booster. My children attend a parochial middle school in VA. I've been fed up with our DCPS ES post Covid, thrilled that we only have one week of 5th grade left. But I'm genuinely surprised by how many of the brainy families we've known on the Hill for many years are actually sending their children to Eliot Hine, Jefferson or Stuart Hobson for 6th or 7th grade. You don't have to be a booster to notice the uptick in Hill enrollment or to comment on it here.

Your alleged surprise doesn’t trump the actual numbers, which actually tell the opposite story.

I know quite a few parents who are sending their kids to Stuart Hobson and Eliot. None of them have kids who are really academic achievers so they feel comfortable in a low key environment where academics isn’t such a priority.

Ha, you might group my kid in there, but I’d gladly share his IQ tests to disabuse you of that notion … The kids I know going to EH come from very accomplished families who are comfortable with EH likely because of that.

Why?

Because they don’t think their kid needs to be hothoused/tiger-mommed to succeed. I don’t necessarily share that view entirely but for various reasons we are trying it out. Believe me when I tell you some very, very bright kids will be going.

As a brown person, it’s always been my perception that these kids scoop up all the advantages that should be going to the brown kids, while allowing their parents to pretend to be super woke and brag to their other white friends. I find it disgusting. But that’s just my opinion (and I am totally certain I’m not alone!).

What specifically are those advantages, and why should they be going to "the brown kids"?

There are some advantages to going to a poor school, such as specific internships ska scholarships. Those are geared towards the economically disadvantaged but the quiet parents scoop them all up since they know how to package their kids. I mean if you think this is ethical then good for you I guess?

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Anonymous wrote:You're not wrong but I'm a little surprised by how many neighborhood families seem OK with Eliot-Hine, Jefferson Academy and Stuart Hobson these days though. I'm not hearing too many complaints from friends and neighbors who are using these schools, most of them UMC and white.

There are stats on this that were posted recently. It’s actually not that many families choosing their IB middle school, no matter what boosters like you post (repeatedly).

Give me a break. I'm no booster. My children attend a parochial middle school in VA. I've been fed up with our DCPS ES post Covid, thrilled that we only have one week of 5th grade left. But I'm genuinely surprised by how many of the brainy families we've known on the Hill for many years are actually sending their children to Eliot Hine, Jefferson or Stuart Hobson for 6th or 7th grade. You don't have to be a booster to notice the uptick in Hill enrollment or to comment on it here.

Your alleged surprise doesn’t trump the actual numbers, which actually tell the opposite story.

I know quite a few parents who are sending their kids to Stuart Hobson and Eliot. None of them have kids who are really academic achievers so they feel comfortable in a low key environment where academics isn’t such a priority.

Ha, you might group my kid in there, but I’d gladly share his IQ tests to disabuse you of that notion … The kids I know going to EH come from very accomplished families who are comfortable with EH likely because of that.

Why?

Because they don’t think their kid needs to be hothoused/tiger-mommed to succeed. I don’t necessarily share that view entirely but for various reasons we are trying it out. Believe me when I tell you some very, very bright kids will be going.

That's an interesting perspective. One of the reasons we went private is because we don't want to do extensive supplementation/tiger-momming, and felt like that would be necessary if we went to our IB MS.

I think this is a fair point.

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Anonymous wrote:You're not wrong but I'm a little surprised by how many neighborhood families seem OK with Eliot-Hine, Jefferson Academy and Stuart Hobson these days though. I'm not hearing too many complaints from friends and neighbors who are using these schools, most of them UMC and white.

There are stats on this that were posted recently. It’s actually not that many families choosing their IB middle school, no matter what boosters like you post (repeatedly).

Give me a break. I'm no booster. My children attend a parochial middle school in VA. I've been fed up with our DCPS ES post Covid, thrilled that we only have one week of 5th grade left. But I'm genuinely surprised by how many of the brainy families we've known on the Hill for many years are actually sending their children to Eliot Hine, Jefferson or Stuart Hobson for 6th or 7th grade. You don't have to be a booster to notice the uptick in Hill enrollment or to comment on it here.

Your alleged surprise doesn’t trump the actual numbers, which actually tell the opposite story.

I know quite a few parents who are sending their kids to Stuart Hobson and Eliot. None of them have kids who are really academic achievers so they feel comfortable in a low key environment where academics isn’t such a priority.

Ha, you might group my kid in there, but I’d gladly share his IQ tests to disabuse you of that notion … The kids I know going to EH come from very accomplished families who are comfortable with EH likely because of that.

Why?

Because they don’t think their kid needs to be hothoused/tiger-mommed to succeed. I don’t necessarily share that view entirely but for various reasons we are trying it out. Believe me when I tell you some very, very bright kids will be going.

As a brown person, it’s always been my perception that these kids scoop up all the advantages that should be going to the brown kids, while allowing their parents to pretend to be super woke and brag to their other white friends. I find it disgusting. But that’s just my opinion (and I am totally certain I’m not alone!).

What specifically are those advantages, and why should they be going to "the brown kids"?

There are some advantages to going to a poor school, such as specific internships ska scholarships. Those are geared towards the economically disadvantaged but the quiet parents scoop them all up since they know how to package their kids. I mean if you think this is ethical then good for you I guess?

It's unclear to me why an income qualification couldn't be written in to the internship or scholarship, or just make the application have an essay question about "overcoming hardship" or something. If they really wanted it to go entirely to low-income kids it's totally doable.

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Anonymous wrote:You're not wrong but I'm a little surprised by how many neighborhood families seem OK with Eliot-Hine, Jefferson Academy and Stuart Hobson these days though. I'm not hearing too many complaints from friends and neighbors who are using these schools, most of them UMC and white.

There are stats on this that were posted recently. It’s actually not that many families choosing their IB middle school, no matter what boosters like you post (repeatedly).

Give me a break. I'm no booster. My children attend a parochial middle school in VA. I've been fed up with our DCPS ES post Covid, thrilled that we only have one week of 5th grade left. But I'm genuinely surprised by how many of the brainy families we've known on the Hill for many years are actually sending their children to Eliot Hine, Jefferson or Stuart Hobson for 6th or 7th grade. You don't have to be a booster to notice the uptick in Hill enrollment or to comment on it here.

Your alleged surprise doesn’t trump the actual numbers, which actually tell the opposite story.

I know quite a few parents who are sending their kids to Stuart Hobson and Eliot. None of them have kids who are really academic achievers so they feel comfortable in a low key environment where academics isn’t such a priority.

This is not true in my experience. Yes, the academic high flyers at our IB mostly try for Latin and Basis, but if they don't get in, they typically do head to SH. It's parents whose kids who are doing fine but not great who are more likely to move in those circumstances. This year's 4th grade at our school has a ton of kids coming back for 5th as of now and weirdly the best students are all returning (some got shut out in the lottery, some had a miserable BASIS shadow day and refused to go, and some have true believer parents... so it's a mixed bag). If they actually go on to SH the next year in any meaningful percentage, I think it could start a trend at the school because parents looking at the fifth grade next year and then at who goes to SH the following year will no longer have the same FOMO. We'll see.

That is some magical thinking. Everyone I know who is at Stuart Hobson either doesn’t care about academics at all (due to bigger problems or not being very motivated) or is desperately playing the lottery.

I heard about this “trend” towards attending Stuart Hobson when my son started kindergarten in 2013.

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Anonymous wrote:You're not wrong but I'm a little surprised by how many neighborhood families seem OK with Eliot-Hine, Jefferson Academy and Stuart Hobson these days though. I'm not hearing too many complaints from friends and neighbors who are using these schools, most of them UMC and white.

There are stats on this that were posted recently. It’s actually not that many families choosing their IB middle school, no matter what boosters like you post (repeatedly).

Give me a break. I'm no booster. My children attend a parochial middle school in VA. I've been fed up with our DCPS ES post Covid, thrilled that we only have one week of 5th grade left. But I'm genuinely surprised by how many of the brainy families we've known on the Hill for many years are actually sending their children to Eliot Hine, Jefferson or Stuart Hobson for 6th or 7th grade. You don't have to be a booster to notice the uptick in Hill enrollment or to comment on it here.

Your alleged surprise doesn’t trump the actual numbers, which actually tell the opposite story.

I know quite a few parents who are sending their kids to Stuart Hobson and Eliot. None of them have kids who are really academic achievers so they feel comfortable in a low key environment where academics isn’t such a priority.

Ha, you might group my kid in there, but I’d gladly share his IQ tests to disabuse you of that notion … The kids I know going to EH come from very accomplished families who are comfortable with EH likely because of that.

Why?

Because they don’t think their kid needs to be hothoused/tiger-mommed to succeed. I don’t necessarily share that view entirely but for various reasons we are trying it out. Believe me when I tell you some very, very bright kids will be going.

That's an interesting perspective. One of the reasons we went private is because we don't want to do extensive supplementation/tiger-momming, and felt like that would be necessary if we went to our IB MS.

I think this is a fair point.

For some people, their kid is so far above, or so 2E or idiosyncratic in their abilities, that they're going to have to be heavily involved regardless of the school.

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Anonymous wrote:You're not wrong but I'm a little surprised by how many neighborhood families seem OK with Eliot-Hine, Jefferson Academy and Stuart Hobson these days though. I'm not hearing too many complaints from friends and neighbors who are using these schools, most of them UMC and white.

There are stats on this that were posted recently. It’s actually not that many families choosing their IB middle school, no matter what boosters like you post (repeatedly).

Give me a break. I'm no booster. My children attend a parochial middle school in VA. I've been fed up with our DCPS ES post Covid, thrilled that we only have one week of 5th grade left. But I'm genuinely surprised by how many of the brainy families we've known on the Hill for many years are actually sending their children to Eliot Hine, Jefferson or Stuart Hobson for 6th or 7th grade. You don't have to be a booster to notice the uptick in Hill enrollment or to comment on it here.

Your alleged surprise doesn’t trump the actual numbers, which actually tell the opposite story.

I know quite a few parents who are sending their kids to Stuart Hobson and Eliot. None of them have kids who are really academic achievers so they feel comfortable in a low key environment where academics isn’t such a priority.

Ha, you might group my kid in there, but I’d gladly share his IQ tests to disabuse you of that notion … The kids I know going to EH come from very accomplished families who are comfortable with EH likely because of that.

Why?

Because they don’t think their kid needs to be hothoused/tiger-mommed to succeed. I don’t necessarily share that view entirely but for various reasons we are trying it out. Believe me when I tell you some very, very bright kids will be going.

As a brown person, it’s always been my perception that these kids scoop up all the advantages that should be going to the brown kids, while allowing their parents to pretend to be super woke and brag to their other white friends. I find it disgusting. But that’s just my opinion (and I am totally certain I’m not alone!).

What specifically are those advantages, and why should they be going to "the brown kids"?

There are some advantages to going to a poor school, such as specific internships ska scholarships. Those are geared towards the economically disadvantaged but the quiet parents scoop them all up since they know how to package their kids. I mean if you think this is ethical then good for you I guess?

It's unclear to me why an income qualification couldn't be written in to the internship or scholarship, or just make the application have an essay question about "overcoming hardship" or something. If they really wanted it to go entirely to low-income kids it's totally doable.

Okay except that is not the reality. But you gotta white privilege and have no shame so you do you!

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Anonymous wrote:You're not wrong but I'm a little surprised by how many neighborhood families seem OK with Eliot-Hine, Jefferson Academy and Stuart Hobson these days though. I'm not hearing too many complaints from friends and neighbors who are using these schools, most of them UMC and white.

There are stats on this that were posted recently. It’s actually not that many families choosing their IB middle school, no matter what boosters like you post (repeatedly).

Give me a break. I'm no booster. My children attend a parochial middle school in VA. I've been fed up with our DCPS ES post Covid, thrilled that we only have one week of 5th grade left. But I'm genuinely surprised by how many of the brainy families we've known on the Hill for many years are actually sending their children to Eliot Hine, Jefferson or Stuart Hobson for 6th or 7th grade. You don't have to be a booster to notice the uptick in Hill enrollment or to comment on it here.

Your alleged surprise doesn’t trump the actual numbers, which actually tell the opposite story.

I know quite a few parents who are sending their kids to Stuart Hobson and Eliot. None of them have kids who are really academic achievers so they feel comfortable in a low key environment where academics isn’t such a priority.

Ha, you might group my kid in there, but I’d gladly share his IQ tests to disabuse you of that notion … The kids I know going to EH come from very accomplished families who are comfortable with EH likely because of that.

Why?

Because they don’t think their kid needs to be hothoused/tiger-mommed to succeed. I don’t necessarily share that view entirely but for various reasons we are trying it out. Believe me when I tell you some very, very bright kids will be going.

As a brown person, it’s always been my perception that these kids scoop up all the advantages that should be going to the brown kids, while allowing their parents to pretend to be super woke and brag to their other white friends. I find it disgusting. But that’s just my opinion (and I am totally certain I’m not alone!).

This attitude for attending the school and then you have the Joe Wilson types calling you a racist for not attending. Lose-lose.

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Anonymous wrote:You're not wrong but I'm a little surprised by how many neighborhood families seem OK with Eliot-Hine, Jefferson Academy and Stuart Hobson these days though. I'm not hearing too many complaints from friends and neighbors who are using these schools, most of them UMC and white.

There are stats on this that were posted recently. It’s actually not that many families choosing their IB middle school, no matter what boosters like you post (repeatedly).

Give me a break. I'm no booster. My children attend a parochial middle school in VA. I've been fed up with our DCPS ES post Covid, thrilled that we only have one week of 5th grade left. But I'm genuinely surprised by how many of the brainy families we've known on the Hill for many years are actually sending their children to Eliot Hine, Jefferson or Stuart Hobson for 6th or 7th grade. You don't have to be a booster to notice the uptick in Hill enrollment or to comment on it here.

Your alleged surprise doesn’t trump the actual numbers, which actually tell the opposite story.

I know quite a few parents who are sending their kids to Stuart Hobson and Eliot. None of them have kids who are really academic achievers so they feel comfortable in a low key environment where academics isn’t such a priority.

Ha, you might group my kid in there, but I’d gladly share his IQ tests to disabuse you of that notion … The kids I know going to EH come from very accomplished families who are comfortable with EH likely because of that.

Why?

Because they don’t think their kid needs to be hothoused/tiger-mommed to succeed. I don’t necessarily share that view entirely but for various reasons we are trying it out. Believe me when I tell you some very, very bright kids will be going.

As a brown person, it’s always been my perception that these kids scoop up all the advantages that should be going to the brown kids, while allowing their parents to pretend to be super woke and brag to their other white friends. I find it disgusting. But that’s just my opinion (and I am totally certain I’m not alone!).

What specifically are those advantages, and why should they be going to "the brown kids"?

There are some advantages to going to a poor school, such as specific internships ska scholarships. Those are geared towards the economically disadvantaged but the quiet parents scoop them all up since they know how to package their kids. I mean if you think this is ethical then good for you I guess?

It's unclear to me why an income qualification couldn't be written in to the internship or scholarship, or just make the application have an essay question about "overcoming hardship" or something. If they really wanted it to go entirely to low-income kids it's totally doable.

Okay except that is not the reality. But you gotta white privilege and have no shame so you do you!

Indeed it's not the reality, because that's not what the people offering the internships and scholarships decided to do. Perhaps it's them you should be attacking.