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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Cluster hangs around the neck of each of its schools like an albatross, that's the problem.
- Like it or not, but it is the very opposite of how DC's school system is now working, with choice not only at every transition (from ES to MS to HS) but every year.
- For every Watkins parent complaining about a principal who has to invest time in Stuart-Hobson, you'll find at least one at Stuart-Hobson to complain in reverse. 
- With it all comes a legacy that many of today's educated families (white and black) don't identify with.
- To follow one of OP's leads: do you really want your child at Peabody/Watkins for seven years just to reserve a seat at Stuart-Hobson?

In hindsight, the Ward 6 middle school planning process was one huge missed opportunity to rethink all of Capitol Hill's schools, including that albatross.[/quote]

I'd call 14:30 revisionist history, but that would be misleading for someone who turns such a blind eye to recent public school history on the Hill (yes, even older than the Ward 6 joke of an MS plan).  Brent has only become an acceptable option for Hill families within the past 5 years.  Maury even more recently, and for all the handringing about the upstairs/downstairs divide at Peabody/SWS, Tyler SI has basically co-opted that model.  Two Rivers made its bones attracting disastisfied Hill families, and now it competes to retain them with an ever growing field of charters.

There was a time when there were NO public options, and the Cluster was an effort to accommodate middle class Hill families with an acceptable public school path.  I'd agree that the public education landscape has changed dramatically since the Cluster was created and its value has diminished in that regard, but Peabody is generally still a favored EC option, and you'll find plenty of satisfied Hill families at Watkins, even if the school culture may somewhat reflect its oob population.

Don't just follow the mommy blog.  Visit the school.  Speak to other neighborhood parents at the school and discuss their experience (good and bad).  You may reach the same conclusion as the mommy blog, but if were all so socially and economically advanced as we think we are then we shouldn't mind doing a little homework.  the mommy blog is cliff notes/wikipedia[/quote]

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