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If you aren't IB, or OOB with sibling preference, henceforth, you won't get in to preK, a good sign in my book.  Even knowing that we may not have a MS at the other end, we're glad to have a good ES.

The way every Brent-related DCUM thread turns to MS feeder angst is indicative of what a tough issue the school faces on this front.  Looks like voting out Tommy Wells, who hasn't lobbied DCPS for the Brent and Maury SH feeds, would be a prerequisite to progress.   Maybe Brent parents should consider organizing to back a viable seeming Ward 6 DC Council candidate, one elected to challenge the myopic, old school Cluster mafia.

The Cluster has had more than two decades to work to ensure that a variety of families, including the high-SES crowd, has their needs met in the three schools.  Relentlessly high IB attrition rates at Watkins and SH attest to the fact that they've dropped the ball.

I can't see the rush from Brent to charters and privates abating either - too much momentum there, and Cluster indifference to the optimal SH feeds.  But it's sad for the Hill to see kids who grow up together scatter to the four winds so young.  The Jefferson feed will never work - if you're going to leave the Hill for MS, why bother with SW when there are vastly superior programs with space in NW, and, seemingly, more coming?  The well-intentioned but deeply impractical "Brent guy" was  barking up the wrong tree and, hence, wasted the community's time at a critical juncture.  I feel no debt of gratitude.

So much of what we live here for is community, and the open-ended feeder problem erodes community ties in a big way.

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Agree totally about Wells and the Cluster mafia.  Not so sure about Jefferson.  At one time it was a superior program.  It could be again but not in time for our kids.[/quote]

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