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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] But, Stuart Hobson was stuck with them as feeders, and worse, no longer had any space to add Brent or Maury who began posting legitimately decent test scores.

It was strategically disasterous for the Cluster and they can't get out of the space crunch now.[/quote]

OK, maybe the Cluster parents, and leadership, have belatedly wised up.   Does anybody know if there's a real chance that the automatic ES to MS feeder that Rhee institutionalized in 2009 will go as part of the school redistricting thrust?   If the feeder went back to being a preference and not a right, the Hill would certainly benefit in a big way.   One aspect of the Basis-as-de-facto feeder that concerns me, even if the school thrives, is that Hill parents can never have much input into how the place is run.  What happens to the Hill kids who are humanities oriented, vs. math and science, if they can't get into Latin?  What happens to Hill families at Basis whose kid fail the comps twice and don't want them held back a year?  Those families need to move?

Maybe the better swathe of the Hill to fold into the Maury District would be the section of the Brent District north of Penn and south of E. Capitol.   Brent seems poised to become overcrowded over time while Maury could use more high SES families.   I've been watching the numbers creep up for five years now from a little over 200 to more than 360.   I can't see that the parents north of Penn would fight the redistricting since they're not all that close to Brent and Maury is doing so well.

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