Expectations for Future MS Differentiation EOTP

[Anonymous]

Please post the current test scores for Hobson.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Please post the current test scores for Hobson.

You can find them here results.osse.dc.gov

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Anonymous wrote:I am hoping that the tightening of BASIS and the continuing difficulty of getting into Latin will help SH and eventually Eastern. Maybe my grandchildren will be able to go to a safe and challenging DCPS in Ward 6 after elementary school. We have been waiting a long time.

+1 SH is there. Eastern is a very long haul still

SH is only there for UMC neighborhood families with advanced learners if you supplement a fair amount. But that's doable if you have the dough for tutors and enrichment programs, along with the organizational prowess, and your kid has a very short commute to the building.

AND your child goes with the flow and isn’t bullied (if that is what it should be called). There is still a lot of tension at SH.

Right, every school won't work for a particular kid. My introverted child has not been bullied at Hobson. He has a good group of old friends from the neighborhood in his grade and classes. We're not feeling the tension much.

Test scores don't particularly concern us because the students in the honors classes (his academic classes) work at grade level or above. DCPS doesn't out break test scores for the honors classes, which is really too bad for advertising purposes.

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Anonymous wrote:I am hoping that the tightening of BASIS and the continuing difficulty of getting into Latin will help SH and eventually Eastern. Maybe my grandchildren will be able to go to a safe and challenging DCPS in Ward 6 after elementary school. We have been waiting a long time.

+1 SH is there. Eastern is a very long haul still

SH is only there for UMC neighborhood families with advanced learners if you supplement a fair amount. But that's doable if you have the dough for tutors and enrichment programs, along with the organizational prowess, and your kid has a very short commute to the building.

AND your child goes with the flow and isn’t bullied (if that is what it should be called). There is still a lot of tension at SH.

Right, every school won't work for a particular kid. My introverted child has not been bullied at Hobson. He has a good group of old friends from the neighborhood in his grade and classes. We're not feeling the tension much.

Test scores don't particularly concern us because the students in the honors classes (his academic classes) work at grade level or above. DCPS doesn't out break test scores for the honors classes, which is really too bad for advertising purposes.

What grade and can you estimate how many kids are in his honors classes?

[Anonymous]

It's about 1/4 of the 6th graders, maybe 20% of 7th graders, and 15% of 8th graders. Principal has implemented a solid test-in system this year, based on grades, PARCC scores and placement tests. In a nutshell, being white or UMC with assertive parents is no longer enough to be placed into an honors class at SH.

Around 50 6th graders are in advanced ELA, math or both, generally along with Spanish. Kids also tend to self-select into honors electives that are more challenging that the rest.

Hobson certainly isn't the best middle school around, but our bright and motivated kid kid works with tutors or receives extra academic instruction outside school in small classes 6-8 hours per week on top of what they're offering. He has the time without commuting to school around 1.5 hours per weekday. New principal has a much better handle on keeping order and meeting parents halfway than the last one (two years back).

[Anonymous]

It's about 1/4 of the 6th graders, maybe 20% of 7th graders, and 15% of 8th graders. Principal has implemented a solid test-in system this year, based on grades, PARCC scores and placement tests. In a nutshell, being white or UMC with assertive parents is no longer enough to be placed into an honors class at SH.

Around 50 6th graders are in advanced ELA, math or both, generally along with Spanish. Kids also tend to self-select into honors electives that are more challenging that the rest.

Hobson certainly isn't the best middle school around, but our bright and motivated kid kid works with tutors or receives extra academic instruction outside school in small classes 6-8 hours per week on top of what they're offering. He has the time without commuting to school around 1.5 hours per weekday. New principal has a much better handle on keeping order and meeting parents halfway than the last one (two years back).

[Anonymous]

The more IB Cluster families that get turned away from Latin and BASIS, the more the tutoring culture will develop in-boundary in the SH high SES community. Neighborhood parents already band together to get pay for extra writing instruction. Hobson is no longer short on kids work on Khan Academy and other on-line math programs regularly to find extra challenge, and attend advanced summer math programs.

The school is very likely to see strong and steady change in the next few years. As things stand, the FARMs percentage drops by around 5 points a year, and the white/in-boundary percentage rises by 3-5% (we will be looking at 20% by fall 2019, with the honors classes already half white). The changes really add up over time.

I see the grade level/honors classes, coupled with diminished access to gentrifier-friendly charter programs, as driving change more than shifting neighborhood demographics.

[Anonymous]

I'm waiting for somebody to bark RACIST at this PP for cheering how SH's demographics are mirroring those of the neighborhood more closely with each passing school year...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'm waiting for somebody to bark RACIST at this PP for cheering how SH's demographics are mirroring those of the neighborhood more closely with each passing school year...

You just did.

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I don't see that. It's a good sign that nobody's flipped out yet.

Stuart Hbson is definitely starting to attract more white families under this strong head. From what I can tell, mostly families who struck out in the Latin lottery.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm waiting for somebody to bark RACIST at this PP for cheering how SH's demographics are mirroring those of the neighborhood more closely with each passing school year...

Yup the irony of all the white guilt liberal progressives pushing neighborhood schools

When people finally embrace the school they are still somehow racist

You can't win with SJW

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:At least Stuart Hobson is almost "there." I don't feel like that about Eliot-Hine, and I know Brent parents who don't feel like that about Jefferson. What a freakin shame that DCPS won't let us feed to one strong middle school \

It's time for a middle school magnet that's ward 6 wide

[Anonymous]

Whatever that means. If we had a pan Ward 6 middle school with a full menu of honors classes, we'd be fine. DCPS could have gone with a creative arrangement using existing facilities, like SH for 6th grade and Eliot-Hine for 7th and 8th.

Never happening.

[Anonymous]

Definitely not. City pols could care less if we stick around for MS on the Hill.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Definitely not. City pols could care less if we stick around for MS on the Hill.

Yep. If you sell they will get a transaction tax from sale of your house, and the assessment / taxes will go up for the new owners. Even better you might sell to people without kids who use fewer services.