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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why not set up a comprehensive middle school on Capitol Hill spread out on two campuses? 6th grade at Stuart-Hobson and 7th and 8th grade at Elliott-Hine. Feeders would be JO Wilson, LT, Watkins, Brent, Maury, Tyler, SWS, Payne, Miner, Van Ness, and Amidon-Bowen. There could be a Spanish immersion track to support students from Tyler Bilingual as well as Hill families from LAMB and Mundo Verde looking for a neighborhood school for the MS years. Turn Jefferson into a test-in STEM MS. [/quote]

Great question for Henderson, Grosso and Allen.
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This idea has merit.  Seriously. Something a politician can ( and should ) get behind.  And it could be done in the spirit of "uniting ward 6 on the road to Eastern".  It would eliminate these funding and feeder squabbles and create incentives for everyone to work together and share resources--  The school would be the size of Deal and have the per-pupiil funding to run robust programs in academics, remediation, sports, arts and drama.  I feel like if we can get our neighborhood together in a middle school, amazing things could happen. [/quote]

I agree that this is the first proposal I have read on one of these threads about the Hill middle school situation that didn't just make me feel more hopeless because it was so obviously not a workable solution.  It is a good idea.[/quote]

This makes sense because these middle schools are so tiny that it really limits what can be offered from an economic perspective -- they are smaller than every Ward 3 elementary school (except one)(combined, they are barely larger than Lafayette). The whole population of the largest, Stuart Hobson, is smaller than one grade at Deal. Pooling the resources is a great idea. (and you won't need a magnet). [/quote]

Or just have the elementaries go through 6th and pool everyone at E-H? Agree that a consolidated, big middle school on the Hill is a great idea![/quote]

The E-H consolidation doesn't work both because a lot of the elementary schools don't have room for 6th (and DCPS obviously has made the decision it doesn't what 6th grade in elementary school) and because of all the sunk cost in Stuart Hobson modernization.  The good thing about the above idea is that it allows a consolidated Hill middle school while not abandoning Stuart Hobson, which has just had millions of dollars of updates.[/quote]

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