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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What if DCPS allowed SWS to flourish for a few years, and then BOOM - closed LT down and allowed SWS to inherit its catchment area . . . ?  Then you'd have something.[/quote]

Not necessarily - many struggling LT students are bona fide IB kids.  Take four crazy little ones being raised by a great-grandmother, a homeowner on my F St. block.  The mom, a drug addict who's in and out of jail and the Capitol Hill Towers with various men, says she isn't going anywhere.  Where would such kids be dispatched if LT shut - Watkins?  SWS?   Maury?  You'd have them disrupting class as the focus of a teacher's attention anywhere you dropped them but a super regimented KIPP school.

I marvel at how poorly some of the Hill yuppies plan and research options where ES choice is concerned.   We've spent years saving to buy the right Brent District fixer to escape both LT and charter lottery stress.  Now we get to spend every weekend in the forseeable future renovating said property to be at Brent.  Why do so many parents let LT happen to them?  They buy into the ANC 6C view that the school is on the up and up (a waiting list every year!), try preschool, realize that LT is going nowhere and pitch fits on DCUM.  Why should other high-SES Hill parents be sympathetic to LT refugees, after all the heavy lifting and political capital building they've done[b] (including the under-handed Cluster variant)[/b] to build the schools they have, both DCPS and charter?

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What do you mean by the bolded? The Two Rivers suit? Or the long ago formation of the Cluster, including Stuart Hobson as the MS of right? If the latter, you probably also know that the Brent non-inclusion as a SH feeder (to Jefferson instead, I believe) was as much being pushed by Brent parent(s) leaders as any effort from Cluster side at the time.[/quote]

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