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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A few spots open at SH does not mean that an entire school ( say Brent ) could fit in as a feeder school.  That's 40 or so kids.  [/quote]

[b]Actually, it does because that now means that SH has gone through the entire waitlist and is that the very dead end of that. And that waitlist would have by now contained at least 40 OOB applicants, in whose place would have been 40 children from feeder schools.[/b]
And what actually bothers me more: Watkins must have gone through all its waitlists, which are notoriously stuffed with OOB, non Capitol Hill applicants, and funnel those kids to SH and then say, oh sorry we can't add other feeder schools.
That is a problem for the rest of us, who have kids at schools that have top notch programs with enrollments that are bursting at the seams but (as of now) no viable middle school option to feed towards. That is the problem with the Cluster.[/quote]

That's not logical:  Say they had 10 open seats for kids who didn't show up. They go through the waitlist calling maybe 40 families, but most are probably happily settled elsewhere.  Maybe 5 take slots at Stuart Hobson.  Now there are still 5 open slots to fill after calling the whole waitlist.  It doesn't mean there were ever 40 slots available.[/quote]

There were 15 seat available for OOB at SH in the Spring - they worked through a waitlist of over 100 names.  The SH principal went to the Maury and Brent to try to sell the school to 5th grade familieis.  Basis and Latin are going to be attractive to a lot of Brent families even if SH is the feeder.  SH needs Brent to improve and Brent need SH to have a half-way OK middle school option.  Brent needs to figure out whether this could be a consensus now and then maybe if some of the positive things happening at Brent (music, Chinese, some academic tracking) are happening at SH or maybe could happen in the future.

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