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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]

Please, the fact that nobody outside the Cluster much likes their leadership is hardly breaking news.  The outmoded brand of inclusiveness the Cluster preaches is causing the several schools to lose ground, and giving us all headaches.  Look at the percentage of white kids dropping at Watkins and SH in recent years and ask why.  Could it be that distant charters, especially Inspired Teaching, BASIS and Washington Latin are a whole lot more upper-middle-class friendly?  Shock.

Nonsense that Brent didn't, and doesn't, want a SH feeder in this decade if that's what you mean; they didn't want the feeder on the terms of myopic and territorial Cluster parents fighting honors courses/a gifted program and logical feeds enabling the middle-class Hill cohort to group at the school.  A lone antagonist from Brent wanted Jefferson as a feed in 2008, and he's landed at BASIS.  Look at how Cluster parents are coopting SWS, in the short-term anyway, in the hopes of avoiding lack of challenge and a good situation socially for their own children in Watkins' upper grades.  Meanwhile, the Brent PTA pays for pullout instruction for advanced learners, causing yet more Watkins attrition.  We'd have one Deal quality middle school on the Hill if it weren't for Cluster parents playing their many political cards in a self-serving, and ultimately self-defeating way.   Any chance that all of you will take an interest in space tourism?  Growth field.

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