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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A Maury parent here: I think anyone frequenting this discussion with kids in testing grades at Brent, Maury, and Tyler, throw in Ludlow-Taylor and J.O. Wilson, add Payne and Miner (anyone out there?), and, heck, why not Two Rivers, which I don't think has a viable middle school option either (am I wrong?), should know from experience how, in many ways, surprisingly little it actually takes to turn a school around.  And how oblivious we ES parents may indeed all be to what's already happening on the ground.  Many of the very people who introduced us to Maury some significant years back just before sending their kids off to Hardy because they didn't trust Eliot-Hine are actually now banking on Eliot-Hine.  Their Hardy kids transfer to Eastern HS. Their educational sensors are sharp, not clouded by color.  I followed their lead once, I can follow them twice.

Yes, it would be so much more comfy to see it all in place waiting for the likes of us to finally "jump in the boat" - or the bandwagon as the case may be.  But there is one significant upside to being among the first to jump. You get to steer!  (So what's the next foreign language gonna be, French or Chinese?)[/quote]

Eliot Hine may improve in a few years – but right now the school is struggling.  Last year the sixth grade was 30% proficient in math.  In sixth grade there were 6 students considered advanced readers and 17 considered below basic readers (more than two years below grade level).  For me, the school lacks a critical mass of strong students and it’s primarily focused on remediation - taking a large majority of its cohort up to grade level.

For elementary school I am willing to enroll my children in a struggling school at the youngest grades and join the improvement effort.  And for middle school I’ll put my shoulder into it before my kids enroll, but I won’t consider a program that does not start from a position of strength.
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