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[quote=Anonymous]I live in SW and the neighborhood's plenty frustrated about it but generally pretty clear it was going to happen. Jefferson actually has pretty good scores for its student population and has a pre-IB program (or, whatever you call it for MS) so the assumption had been that DCPS would want to increase the number of those students who go to Eastern to boost that IB program with some somewhat better prepared students.

Eastern's definitely a step down from Wilson. The renovation is nice and the idea of the IB program is, too. But it's not the most rigorous IB curriculum, especially as compared to, say, the RIchard Montgomery IB in Montgomery County and I think there's general skepticism that there's a lot of there there.

Amidon's been a very weak school for a while, although moreso since Van Ness closed and many of its students moved to the Bowen catchment area and then Bowen closed and merged with Amidon. More education oriented parents in the neighborhood just didn't use the school. In the last year or so, they've gotten a PTA president and leadership who really invigorated the school and, with Appletree and Amidon's own preK program located on campus, more people were giving it a try for pre-K. I think it was poised to be one of those schools where parents tried it out for pre-K and then stayed on to try ES especially since the junior high is OK and Wilson was at the end of it all. I think that's much less likely now. People will just go straight to private or charters at pre-K. Or move to the suburbs - that's what we're doing.

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