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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] What a bunch of pessimists.  Rather than rooting for SWS or any school to fail, you could also look at SWS as a potential contributor to a revamped Hill middle school feeder pattern.  In a few years Van Ness will reopen, and between Brent, Maury, Tyler SI, Watkins and SWS you could have the core of a decent middle school in the not too distant future.

Bunch of realists.  How long have you lived in the LT district?  I've been here a decade, and have spoken to Wells about the concerns of IB parents at his office hours several times.  He dismisses our concerns out of hand, tooting LT's horn for "impressive" test scores and "long waiting lists."  Playing the charter lottery sounds like an easy out, but it's not: the neighborhoood ES deficit takes its toll.  Many aren't OK with the commute to Yu Ying or Inpsired Teaching or wherever and want to live in a more stable community for little kids, so they give up after a year or two on the charter scene.  We're moving to a smaller place in another Hill school district.  The real winners are go-getting real estate agents.

So as long as Wells is in, we're out, in the cold.   Wells is going to back a new MS program catering to upper-middle-class families?  Dream on.  He doesn't give a hoot that three-quarters of the Brent 4th graders, including almost every white kid, hit the road, mainly for Latin or Basis, over the summer.  And he doesn't care that Stuart Hobson is 80% OOB.  He cares that Trinidad and Bladensburg Rd. folk vote for him in the next election.   I don't doubt that pressure on him to act will rise, or that he'll resist it.

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