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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There's some validity to the impression that Eaton is like the poor stepchild among ward 3 schools.  A lot may have to do with simple politics and the fact that Eaton remains a majority out of boundary school.  That means that a majority of the school parents are not Mary Cheh's constituents.  (Because Eaton parents are dispersed around various wards of the city, it's not like other council members are going to worry much about Eaton either.) As a practical matters, Cheh is going to expend capital and time pushing the DCPS bureaucracy to address the interests other schools in the ward like Janney or Murch over Eaton, simply because there are more Ward 3 voters in those school communities.  For this reason, it's understandable that Eaton was the sacrificial school thrown under the bus when a school needed to be dropped from Deal.  The curious thing is that Hearst may have a higher OOB population, but the dynamics are shifting more rapidly than Eaton, and it just seems that the Hearst community does a better job of advocating for themselves.  [/quote]

I don't think this is accurate in terms of more rapidly shifting dynamics.

We just crossed the 50% IB threshold this year and if what I see happening in the lower grades is accurate, it will only increase. Not to mention, an 8% uptick in IB in one year is pretty good already. The PK4 incoming class is all IB and had 22 IB children on the waitlist initially. So that means there were 57 IB children interested in PK4. Now, some will stay at NCRC or the Ghan or one of the Montessoris for the upcoming year, but it appears the PK class will be entirely IB this year. And more will come for K, those that didn't get in or ultimately chose to say elsewhere for this year or didn't even participate in the initial lottery. I wouldn't be surprised to see next year's K class have 65 or more of the students be IB.

In the initial lottery this year, Eaton offered only 10 OOB K spots. [/quote]

More of these IB parents need to get on Cheh's back and tell her that waiting until 2022 (which in DCPS time means more like 2026+) isn't acceptable.   The days of pretty much ignoring Eaton need to end.[/quote]

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