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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think Eastern HS needs a fresh start - new principal, etc. Someone who can turn it around and make it at least a 50% neighborhood school. [/quote]

Eastern would 'turn around' in a heartbeat if neighborhood families enrolled. The curriculum is there (IB classes). They also have a track for higher achieving students (students apply to be included). I think DCPS has provided a carrot...but people seem to be wanting an  heirloom tomato.[/quote]

Come on, Eastern's much lauded International Baccalaurate Diploma program has a pass rate of about 50% with average points totals in the mid 20s (the IBD equivalent of a D+ or C-).

The vast majority of us can't even get through DCPS MS on the Hill - we have no access to Stuart Hobson, and little reason to believe that our middle school-age children would be safe, happy, or challenged at Jefferson Academy or Eliot-Hine, let alone 9th grade at Eastern.

DCPS has provided nothing more than a dead-end street for in-boundary UMC families at Eastern, which is criminal given that we're now the majority of in-boundary residents.

Do you have kids in DC public schools? It certainly doesn't sound like it.[/quote]

Jefferson's at-risk and non-at-risk students both outperform DC averages on the PARCC in ELA (admittedly, math still needs work). 100% of their white students got a 4 or 5 on PARCC last year and over 90+ of them did so on the math section--that's better than Hardy or Deal. They have a just-refurbished building that looks really nice, and it's easy to get to because it's 3 blocks from L'Enfant Plaza and on several bus lines. I don't know why you'd think your kids couldn't be happy, safe, or challenged there. There are middle class families there of various races. Same with Eastern--they have an IB curriculum and lots of kids who are passing it, they advertise different events like an open greenhouse session and a movie afternoon in the library, they have sports and music and gardening. Kids who do well there should do well in the college admissions process too. DCPS can't force a bunch of rich families to enroll in the school just to make you happy. But all the rich families on Capitol Hill are guaranteed a spot at Eastern and are free to enroll at any time. [/quote]

Jefferson Academy booster, rich families?  Where are these rich families at schools feeding into JA?  The scores of SE families I know with children at Van Ness, Tyler and Brent are solidly middle class, not wealthy.  100% of white students at Jefferson screams joke of a sample size - there weren't even a dozen white students enrolled last year.  With so few Brent students staying on for 5th grade (a dozen less than last year) and a new Washington Latin campus opening next year, the momentum for UMC enrollment at JA clearly isn't building, not yet anyway.  UMC buy-in at Jefferson is almost all hype.  Sorry, lots of UMC SE parents won't enroll at JA, or Eastern, just to make you happy.[/quote]

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