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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I heard a cheap shot.  No DC Catholic school would satisfy you, you demanding b****. Maybe an explanation would help.

The story of Stuart-Hobson is the story of political concerns trumping academic prerogatives for the last 4 decades.  It's not a bad school, but it hasn't served the neighborhood well since the 70s, which isn't good news for any of us in-boundary. [b]No way should more students from Ward 5, 7 and 8 than from Ward 6 still be in that building.[/b][/quote]

YES THEY SHOULD.  Watkins is IMPROVING to 30% IB this year.  Even much hyped Brent is only 65% IB.  If the IB families don't opt in why should the Ward 5, 7 and 8 families get called out for exercising school choice?  They're exercising the same OOB rights exercised by the Ward 6 families choosing charters over IB.[/quote]

This person is obviously not saying OOB kids shouldn’t get to fill empty seats. She’s saying there is no excuse for empty seats and this point. The Watkins boundary is exploding with school aged children. The fact that they’re not enrolling means Watkins/DCPS is doing something wrong. [/quote]

Watkins isn't the problem. Watkins reflects the community that actuallly enrolls,  not the one that bitches about what it should be[/quote]

If Watkins weren't the problem, the student body would have become majority IB years long ago.  The state of Watkins is obviously a longstanding problem for the MAJORITY of the parents of 1st-5th graders residing in school's catchment area.  Neighborhood schools in name only are all a big problem in this city, as families dash from quadrant to quadrant in search of decent public schools.

As long as DC voters insist on voting in mayors who don't give a darn if neighborhood schools actually serve neighborhoods first and foremost, the grim beat goes on.

Signed
IB Cluster Parent who Sends her Children to a Language Immersion Charter and Wishes We'd Bought in the Maury District when We Could Have Afforded to
(much too busy involved at the charter day to day to find time to bitch about Watkins)[/quote]

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