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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Would it cripple the Cluster School?[/quote]

Who cares? The in-bounds Watkins and Peabody kids would be in-bounds for S-H. [/quote]

You are exactly right 19:57. And I am an IB Cluster parent. Many Peabody/Watkins IB would welcome this. Really SH seems like s foreign land to us, and seems to be the only campus Cluster administration seems to care about. We hate them transferring resources to SH from the lower schools. This pillaging couldn't happen if SH was a separate school, with Hill IB prIority.[/quote]

The Cluster school is crippled already, losing high-SES lower grades kids to charters, Maury, Brent etc., and droves of 4th graders to BASIS and Latin, while feeding into a MS at which the small IB population is actually dropping.

I can't see how SH could offer Hill IB priority unless DCPS revoked ES feeder priority for the whole city.  It's a city-wide policy that clobbers the Hill because most of the kids in our elementary schools are weak students, Ward 7, 8 and PG County kids who struggle, unlike those in the Deal feeder schools WotP.  If DCPS would just roll the feeder policy back to its pre Rhee state, SH could blossom within 2 or 3 years, especially if high quality honors classes were introduced.  Hill parents might want to lobby for all this, even if they fail.

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