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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The same dumb person is posting over and over again and somehow still doesn’t understand that the number of enrolled kids from a particular IB school does not equal the number of families who were attracted to BASIS and would have gone if they had gotten in. Because it’s a lottery school, we will never know.

But also, WHO CARES???

It’s almost like they’re IB for Elliot Hine, didn’t get into BASIS, and are trying to justify their butthurt… [/quote]

We don’t have the application data. [b]But based on my numerous conversations with parents, those that affirmatively prefer Basis are few. [/b]Good for them. More prefer their IB if they feel confident in it, and as EH improves, more feel confident in it.  And this goes for other charters (TR etc). I do think more would pick Latin over EH mainly due to the HS still.  [/quote]

First of all, you’re either lying or people know you’re a wacky EH evangelist so they’re telling you what you want to hear. Second, my kids are at a school that feeds to EH and I can’t think of a single person who didn’t try to lottery into Latin/BASIS. We lost an entire class (of 2) to Latin and BASIS after 4th last year. Even the one mom who loudly talked about supporting neighborhood schools ended up sending her kid to BASIS. And she was IB for Stuart Hobson with the option to send to either SH or EH. [/quote]

FWIW I don't think PP is lying. The vibe re: EH at SWS is TOTALLY different than the vibe at Maury. Maury sent *27* kids to EH last year. If that doesn't tell you that there is some actual buy-in, I don't know what would.

I do think some of it just comes down to this weird "we're the chosen ones" belief that SWSers have. It's hard for them to "settle" for their feeder school especially when it so clearly isn't *the chosen one* even on the Hill. (That's not to trash EH, which I think is clearly on a good trajectory... but, at the moment, I think few would disagree that SH is more highly regarded/more people consider it an option.) My kids go to a different Hill ES and I'm always shocked by the number of SWS parents who just assume I'm trying to get my kids into SWS in the lottery every year. It's really this odd mentality that I think is at odds with accepting EH.

Maury families, on the other hand, have seen first hand that you can build a school into a desirable juggernaut just by going to it. So naturally their attitude towards EH is different/more optimistic. Good for them. (FWIW I think Payne families are seeing that too, so it's a good combo for EH.)[/quote]

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