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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Huh - came from Banneker. I wonder if that bodes well for the honors program. [/quote]
I think so. He worked with Trogisch at Walls, too, back in the day. He was at Ron Brown when they were starting up and at Banneker when it was expanding; he’d be a good choice if you wanted to recruit more kids to Eastern. Also his parents were military and he has that ability military kids often have to be at ease with people from a wide variety of backgrounds. A really promising choice for Eastern, I think. [/quote]

The new principal was the founding principal at Ron Brown - not just a staff member, and I do think the experience at Banneker will be helpful, as they are the only other school with an IB program in the city. The current principal is great, I believe he is leaving because his wife's job is moving them overseas - so nothing scandalous, and I think it allowed them a lot of lead time to find the new principal.

It is not huge, but there is increased buy-in every year from the increasingly in-bounds enrolled feeder middle schools. We know several families at Eastern, some of whom are in the full IB program, some of whom are taking a combination of the IB program and the Health Sciences academy classes. There is also an IT track that I think one family we knows is pursuing. The band and some of the sports teams do some practices/collaboration with the middle schoolers, and at least from Eliot Hine the 8th graders in geometry walk over to Eastern for their classes so they are in the school for that purpose. There is also an honors 'EPIC' program from 9th and 10th graders that kids can apply into, before the full IB program starts in 11th and 12th grade. https://www.easternhighschooldcps.org/apps/pages/index.jsp?uREC_ID=573456&type=d

My child is still in middle school, so not sure where we will end up, but they are leaning towards Eastern. I agree though - probably not a ton of folks on DCUM there, but if you ask around or at the school I am sure they can connect you with families that are there. [/quote]

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