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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Watkins has a strong PTA with great leadership.[/quote]

The main problems at Watkins in the lower grades are social, in the upper grades, both social and academic.

High-SES IB kids, mostly white, are a minority at Watkins while they now constitute a majority in the neighborhood. Most kids are lower-middle-class AA.  Their home lives tend to be quite different than those of the high-SES kids: more TV, less travel, less reading, fewer enrichment opportunities like music lessons, less speaking grammatically, more being screamed at, more religion, more of certain sports (pee wee football, drum majorettes, stepping) etc.  We're trying to leave Watkins for 3rd grade more for social reasons than academic ones, though the lack of challenged for an advanced learner is behind the times on the Hill.

I wish DCPS would down-size Watkins to help make it a real neighborhood school, like Brent, and Maury soon enough.

The S-H feeder appeals to so few high-SES families that it's not terribly relevant.  High-SES Watkins grads are a lot more likely to head to BASIS, Latin, the burbs or privates than S-H.

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