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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is Eastern HS currently improving and attracting more Capitol Hill families? I know DCPS has been heavily investing money and programming efforts there. The marching band has national recognition. [/quote]

No. It's as if DCPS intentionally wants to prevent MS/HS on the Hill from attaining higher standards. For example, think of how they cracked the Hill into 3 different MS so there can be no critical mass, or how there is no meaningful tracking. If your kid might do a little better then everyone else loses and we can't have that.[/quote]

That’s too bad, because Eastern could be a strong, walkable neighborhood high school for a diverse population. The historic building itself inspires. [/quote]

The pandemic and post-pandemic crime have set back any hope of that for decades. [/quote]

I don't agree with this statement. There was no bridge to Eastern from Hill elementary schools popular with gentrifiers long before the pandemic and post-pandemic crime in the neighborhood is mild compared to what we were dealing with just 10 or 15 years back. When you lose the great majority of high SES Hill families from DCPS after 4th or 5th grade, the story since Latin opened, hope for Eastern to flourish as an in-boundary high school isn't there. There hasn't been hope for Eastern as a popular neighborhood HS in the current century because DCPS leaders haven't been remotely serious about attracting high SES Ward 6 families to the campus.  Michelle Rhee opened the IB Diploma program without our input and have run it without or input ever since, along with the three iffy DCPS Ward 6 middle schools. [/quote]

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