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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wait Eastern was a city wide project, so the hope was not solely dependent on having Jefferson, S-H and E-H as their only feeder schools.  Please note, that Eastern was the only high-school that had feedback of the entire city to make it attractive as a high-school.  Such the case, the majority of DCPS is AA and hence the attraction was for that demographic.  It was pretty evident that DCPS thought beyond Cap-Hill in the thought process of relaunching of Eastern and it is kinda too late to turn back now.[/quote]

City wide or not, Eastern needs some great middle schools feeding in to it to make it a success, right?[/quote]

Most definitely, that is why Eastern never would let the school pigeon-hole them in the Ward 6/Capitol Hill exclusiveness.  The question was poised to the renowned popular principal, Mr. Neal of Eastern, he was asked how come Eastern was never part of the cluster schools?  It would make sense that to have elementaries, middle-schools and the lone high-school be the logical choice a cluster school.  His response was until the cluster can guarantee the best, I will not solely depend on those cluster schools to feed into my high-school.  He went on to elaborate, you want the scholarly child of course and hopefully every child in this city can be a product.  But we have athletics, choir, band and etc..  So who has the best middle school athletes, I will go there to recruit? Who has the best middle school choir students, I will go there and so on?  If the science school winner for middle-schools is at a school outside supposedly of my cluster school population and my cluster-schools don't produce winners, what kind of principal am I to not go after the best.

Again, until the cluster schools can produce the best, I will continue to search city-wide for the best.  Well, as that was probably his thought process a decade earlier prior to the re-launching of Eastern.  It still held to be true as Chancellor Rhee made it her mandate that every person in this city would be part of the re-launching Eastern; to make it the best, she new the best was not just limited to neighborhood blocks of Capitol Hill.  True then and true now.

School choice is not always for the parents.  Schools want to have the choice too and not necessarily don't want the application process to gain that ability.  We all want this power to be able select a school of what we think is the best for our child.  How rewarding is it for you to have a school select your child first because he/she is the best choice for their school?[/quote]

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