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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] My child now takes a bus across town to attend middle school.  It is not the best situation -- children need sleep and with homework, activities, and the long commute sometimes sleep is what gives.  Of course, if all Ward Six residents sent their children to the local school and worked to improve it, we could have a great middle school option in Ward 6.  People like my family while doing what is best for our children are part of the problem.  [/quote]

I love your honesty! This is a classic collective action problem, the type for whose solution there is an occasional Nobel Prize. The "logic of cooperation" actually doesn't require all of the people you mention to reverse course, just a meaningful amount to start, namely the amount it takes for a snowball effect. So let's try play it: Hypothetically, if I can get 10 families with current 4th graders somewhere in the "proficient"/"advanced" category to sign up for Eliot-Hine for 6th grade, who would give it a go? (I'm picking 10 as an experimental ballpark because that's about half a class size.)
Who'd follow at 15? (let's assume distributed across about two home rooms)
Who'd follow at 20? (let's assume distributed across two or three home rooms)
etc.[/quote]

It is a chicken and egg problem isn't it?  We chose Washington Latin for our middle schooler because we somehow got the sense that the place is really serious about academics.  So many factors play into this - listening to the Head of school and dean speak and realizing that they know their stuff, meeting other parents who send or are thinking about sending their children to Latin and noting that both they and their children put high value on the academic environment of the school.  How does Eliot-Hine begin projecting that sense of being an academic place?[/quote]

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