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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I am not in Ward 5 or 6, and look at middle schools from the lens of proximity to the red line.  I imagine a lot of students arrive to Stuart Hobson via Union Station (from all the wards the red line goes through, including 5).  That proximity means a lot more to me than the Ward a school is located in.

Ward boundaries are going to change again in 10 years, and Eliot Hine could very well be in Ward 7.  [/quote]
Eliot Hine is even closer to the Orange/Blue Line and its proximate stops are east of the river in Wards Seven & Eight.  Ward SIx schools have far more students from Wards Seven & Eight than from Wards One and Five.  Plus, as a kicker, Ward Five should get a brand new middle school.

Ward boundaries should be irrelevant, but people focus on wards because the dysfunction that is DCPS is deeply dislocating and parents look for control where ever they get it.  If Eliot Hine was a world-class school, and DC had a history of getting it done, the ward assignment of a school would be much less relevant.[/quote]

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