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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]If the Hill middle schools improved, they woudl suddenly become overcrowded.[/b] People would stop trucking to faraway charters and Deal/Hardy. They would have to stop admitting OOB students. The net effect would be a much whiter and higher-income student body and the OOB kids would probably end up at worse schools (or maybe at okayish charters).

If they consolidated high-performing kids in one middle school, it would be so overcrowded that they would have to de-consolidate it after a few years. It's not a workable plan politically or logistically.

What can be done? Work on your elementary school's upper grade offering so that the middle schools of the city are receiving kids as well-prepared as possible. If you're at a feeder or attend a middle school, push for higher quality but with an understanding of the complex and sensitive politics and the budget constraints. This isn't an easy problem.[/quote]

This has to be one of the stupidest arguments I have ever seen. Capitol Hill has *three* middle schools, and only one of them is even close to capacity (SH, the smallest). EH has space for *500* more students. Jefferson has space for *200* more. That's space for 700 students! Besides improving the schools won't mean that families won't go to charters -- lots of families choose charters because they want to be there, not because they are fleeing. [/quote]

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