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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why not expect families to go their own way and start to focus on the middle school that works for their family?  We are personally planning to start attending games and plays and maybe even PTA meetings at E-H, but we don't expect the entire Brent community to do the same.[/quote]

This is a very valid point. But I think it fails to distinguish between what families ultimately decide to pursue and what the community as a whole advocates. By "community" I mean not just Brent but roughly all of Capitol Hill, Ward 6 or whatever your point of reference. I'd love to see the community as a whole pull roughly in the same direction while recognizing that may not work for everybody, or not yet, or not completely. In fact, to get anything accomplished we really need to roughly work toward the same vision. 
For me, that vision really is Eliot-Hine. I realize that may sound dauntingly distant for parents of 5th graders who feel, and have even been told, that Eliot-Hine is just not ready for them (I realize that "they/them" lacks definition). But I think if you start looking even just one year down the road, not waiting and looking on, but getting involved here and there, requesting here and there, advocating here and there, you'll realize that it actually wouldn't take all that much. Moreover, if everyone realizes that they're not alone contributing to that vision then it isn't all that daunting either.
What I'd find important is to identify concrete steps that could be taken, as simple as aligning schedules of PTA meetings, games, and performances as mentioned, cross-listing schedules. 
Also, although small numbers comes with power for the few who get involved, it shouldn't be the same people and the same school(s) at the helm of this effort, and neither should it only be an effort "higher up" but also something of a grassroots effort. Everyone of these pieces matters.[/quote]

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