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Point of fact:  the Brent parents have lobbied repeatedly for a feed to Stuart Hobson and have been told by DCPS that it will not happen.   Don't you think even the principals at these two schools see the benefit of a partnership and have asked higher ups for this?  Dcps wants Brent and Maury to anchor programs at other middle schools on the Hill.  Fortunately, parents if older kids at these schools have much better options for middle school at charters.

Maybe when somebody at central office wakes up to this reality, they may re think the grand " Ward 6 Middle School Plan" that was a complete crock, given that this outcome was completely predictable and predicted.

[/quote] Yes, they've lobbied, but the momentum has petered out in the last couple of years and every parent involved hasn't been optimistic about SH's prospects.  The Cluster has never been an easy nut to crack.  Concern is growing that the charter middle schools won't have room for all the rising Brent and Maury kids whose parents want them to go within just one or two years.  Latin got something like 300 applications for 50 5th grade spots this spring, and 20 went to siblings.  Basis will have a lottery next year and DCI, which is a couple years from getting started, will reserve many spots for the language immersion charter kids, and is far from Brent (Walter Reed campus).

DCPS is trying to force the Brent and Maury parents to turn around Jefferson and Eliot-Hine, which stinks- the schools' development trajectories don't look rosy to me, not without test-in academic magnet programs in the works.  Yes, the Ward 6 MS plan was bad news.  Disappointingly, the recent Ward 6 state-of-the-schools meeting with Kaya Henderson skirted the tough issues: class, race, safety, and challenge for advanced learners/high-SES kids, meaning extensive ability grouping.

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