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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Eastern's failure to attract a good cohort of UMC in-boundary families is a no brainer.  The main problem is that there's no DCPS middle-high school bridge East of Rock Creek, with UMC Hill families overwhelmingly peeling off for vastly superior charter middle/highs schools that take them to 12th grade or for Walls or Banneker for 9th.  Without a super duper test-in IBD program, e.g. Richard Montgomery in Rockville, Eastern has no allure for almost all high SES families EotP.  DCPS doesn't give a hoot and political heads don't roll over the state of Eastern.[/quote]

If Eliot-Hine's IB program becomes really strong, I can see families try to stick together and continue on at Eastern. [/quote]

+1. The problem is really that charters start in 5th grade, so people jump because they are afraid to lose their chance. If charters were somehow mandated to start in 6th grade, you might have enough families stick together to try IB at Eliot.[/quote]

Oh please. And if DCPS could actually run a middle school program, or start their own middle schools in 5th grade.  Problem solved.  I can't for the life of me figure out how people justify trying to mess with the charter system[i] that educates nearly half of DC Public school children[/i] rather than pressure the grown up experts at DCPS to get it together.  The 5th grade curriculum and experience at any charter in DC --not just Latin and Basis--is worlds better than what is happening at a typical DCPS elementary school.  And somehow you want to force those students--from all socio-economic backgrounds-- to waste another substandard year for what?  Take your mandate elsewhere. [/quote]

I would have questioned this take on DCPS running a MS program until this year.  We've stayed at our CH DCPS ES for 5th, after getting shut out of BASIS, both Latins, even Inspired Teaching. The percentage of poor kids at this ES is in the single digits.  Friends who jumped for Latin Cooper are obviously getting much better academics in 5th this year, although the school is brand new and in a barebones facility with no grass, no multipurpose room and little natural light.  We've been spending $750 month for tutoring this spring, at Mathnasium and on a private ELA tutor, because my kid doesn't seem to learn much in 5th grade.  He doesn't get nearly enough math drill and hasn't been taught the basics of writing (impressive worksheets come home, but the lessons aren't taught well).  Before we hired an ELA tutor, they couldn't spell, punctuate or capitalize at anywhere near a 5th grade level and hadn't been taught any grammar.  The kids are supposed to "self-edit," their written work in DCPS, it isn't corrected at school. Nuts.   My son has learned more grammar from playing MathLibs than from school.  Yes, a waste of another substandard year if we weren't paying to supplement. [/quote]

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