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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Watkins numbers were interesting, but not surprising.  You have a large number of white families, presumably IB, bailing on the school for other options.  If you extrapolate from Peabody, Watkins should be about 35-40% white, but it's only at 20%.

While much of the focus is trying to get buy-in for Eliot Hine, maybe more of the focus should be on keeping potential Hill middle schoolers in the DCPS system.     [/quote]

My buy-in for Eliot Hine was smashed when I went on their website to find the "question of the day" for these 6th,7th and 8th graders in a get ready for DCCAS mode was "What is setting?".

Sorry, that may be the right level of inquiry for a large number of students coming out of sub-standard elementary schools, but it doesn't give me the confidence that advanced work and deep thinking is the norm there at the moment.

I know, I know don't judge an entire school by one small thing like that. But I am being truthful when I say that I was starting to thing the IB program and neighborhood support might make it a great choice and this did slam me back to reality.[/quote]

Maybe your complaint should be about the DCCAS.  I scored 800 on my SAT English and don't recall learning about setting before middle school.[/quote]

What's your point? It wasn't about what they were learning, but about how it is presented and what they are asked to do with it. Believe me, that kind of teaching won't lead to high sat scores.  [/quote]

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