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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Demand for Basis by Hill parents will grow and grow, even if the STEM curriculum and fairly narrow focus aren't a good fit for many of the kids.  Soon enough, as at Latin, the problem will be that a lottery will create a long waiting list come May, and a great deal of uncertainty about who can attend in the fall and when (Still spots during the first week of school?  Should we pay a deposit and a private not knowing if spots will open by Labor Day?  Should we move to the burbs over the summer?).

Many Hill parents want a definite majority high SES middle and high school sequence, though they many not admit it to avoid being called snobs, racists, whatever.  The Hill is already majority high SES without schools mirroring this reality, other than Brent and SWS, for political reasons.   Parents should lobby to end Rhee's elementary to middle feeder, regardless of where a family resides, since it means that the 2 Hill DCPS middle schoolls and 1 high school serve Wards 7 and 8 far better than Ward 6.

What a ridiculous situation when money is being  poured into Stuart Hobson although three-quarters of its students are OOB and at least half don't reside on the Hill.   SH's demographic won't much change anytime soon, not when most of the little kids in the feeder elementaries aren't Hill kids.  Payne and  Ludlow-Taylor should be shut so the ES middle school cohort isn't spread so thin around the Hill.  The Stanton Park neighborhood north of the park could be folded into Maury without a fuss to ensure that another majority high SES emerges.

We don't want public schools that are ALL high SES around here; we want neighborhood schools almost all neighbors feel comfortable with from preS 3 to through 12th.  Tell  Wells to get a plan.
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I think you overstate the case by saying "majority high SES".  I'd be happy if my child had a middle-school option that wasn't 90+% FARMS.[/quote]

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