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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If DCPS shuts down an under enrolled Jefferson, EHine would be the only way to go for Brent.  Maybe a good idea.[/quote]

As a Brent parent I would go where ever the best option is – as long as it was a good option.

Right now, even with the Ward 6 Middle School Reform Plan in place, I don’t find any of the Ward 6 schools good options for my family.  I don’t blame anyone for getting us here; it’s just the situation we find ourselves in.  But I am looking for bold leadership to get us out of this quagmire.

With regard to closing Jefferson, it is one way to save money.  Maybe it could work to mothball Jefferson until its capacity is needed.  But I have two questions about that – are we eating our seed corn and are we taking the long view?  Jefferson eclipses Stuart Hobson in world class location and beautiful huge facility.  Jefferson’s Southwest location seems foreign to Capitol Hill folks, but if Jefferson was as strong as Deal, you bet Capitol Hill families would clamor to get in there.  Also, the population growth in Ward Six is mostly happening in Near Southeast and Southwest.  When considering the future, Jefferson/Eliot Hine make better foci than Eliot Hine/Stuart Hobson, no?

If Eastern is going to work, don’t we need more than the 430 of Stuart Hobson and the 800 students at Eliot Hine to make it work.  I don’t know, just asking.

Also, as a previous post asked, who wants to tell Brent, Amidon (and Thomson) parents they need to commute to Old City, going past Stuart Hobson, in order for their children to attend middle school?  Stuart Hobson and Eliot Hine are blocks apart in the same neighborhood, Jefferson is two miles away.
 
Most importantly, I just want a solution that works – Stuart Hobson, Eliot Hine or Jefferson, I don’t really care.  Right now, I just don’t see anything that works within the timeframe we have.
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