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[quote=Anonymous]^ Nice try but no dice.   The only way to make a neighborhood MS school work would be to for DCPS to drop the ES feeder right Rhee instituted in 2009.  Get rid of it and return to residence as the preference, making SH the feeder for all kids who reside on the Hill itself.  The kids in the Hill elementary schools who don't reside on the Hill only get a preference for unused MS spots, like before. Use the MOTH membership borders, south of Florida, north of the Highway, west of the Capitol, east of RFK.

Unless Hill kids get to attend SH before those who don't live here, no hope of the school drawing in most of the upper-middle-class cohort.  Eliot-Hine can't work as long as SH stays open and SH won't close for several reasons: it's facilites/plant are about to dramatically improve, most gentrifiers don't want to send their kids to the East Hill next to Eastern (a gentrifier free zone), and the Cluster has political clout built since the early 90s.  Close LT and re-open it as a SH annex, creating a lot of extra space.

The other missing link is honors classes at SH, in every academic subject, with algebra starting not in 8th grade for some as now, not in 7th grade as at Deal, but in 6th grade for those who can test in, to compete with BASIS.  Everybody else takes it in 7th or 8th, as in most suburban schools.  SH should also offer really advanced language classes for Spanish and Chinese, to keep Tyler SI kids and to win back some of the Yu Ying kids, rather than seeing them run off to the future DCI.

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