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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]12:54, you are correct. There are a large chunk of kids that meet this criteria.

When people state that all the IB kids left the 5th grade this year, what they are really saying is "all the white kids" left.

There are plenty of families that are IB for the cluster who attend Brent. I think some of them will hedge their bets to see if Stuart-Hobson improves. If SH became more desirable, I would wager that the flight of affluent students from the 5th grade would slow.

SH is undergoing a renovation right now and if the new principal has her wits about her, she could probably attract more Hill families to SH. Right now, 1/2 spots are filled with students from Ward 7 & 8. An IB Brent family has an equal chance via the lottery to compete for the spots.

Of course, much of this would depend on improving programming at SH. Also (just in case DCPS is listening) you might want to police your students a bit better on the playground. The obscenities they hurl at year other and passer-bys doesn't exactly make me want to send my child there.[/quote]

This is totally not accurate. Not making any argument, I am just pointing out that people who don't really know things are posting things as fact here.  There were exactly two inboundary students in the fourth grade in the 2010/11 school year. One was white and one was African American.  Neither one stayed for 5th grade and their slots. Along with other slots opened by out of boundary students ( all African American ) were filled off the wait list.  The 5th grade this year included two white students ( both OOB ). 
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