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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Ummm, they're not opening a new school at all. They're talking about Stuart Hobson. Try to keep up.[/quote]
This is the inherent problem with SH - it does not have the capacity for all Hill schools and so people start talking about excluding.  To some it means simply changing the character of SH (Hill residents only = affluence), to others it means getting rid of an option (excluding econ-disadvantaged).  That is why Eliot Hine is a better option because it raises everyone up, not just the affluent ones.  Assemble all middle class families there, and still have room for disadvantaged families.

I get the whole idea of wanting a good school for your kids, but the message absolutely sucks if you try to do something like make SH a fortress of affluence in a sea of poverty . . .[/quote]

One person's "raising up" is another's "dragging down".  How does Eliot Hine achieve your goal when it attracts no middle class Hill families?

SH has the capacity if it doesn't take so many off-Hill feeders (plus upcoming expansion).  The few Hill ES feeders it has do not attract or retain Hill families, so by MS it serves largely non-Ward 6 students.[/quote]

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