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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]

No real problem in this calculus.  SH almost certainly has the capacity for all Hill kids whose parents want them to go, given ongoing competition from Latin, BASIS and the future DCI.   If Deal can be a neighborhood school that's majority high-SES in a majority-high SES ward, so can SH.  Double standard for pols to allow the one and not the other.

The only Hill voters who see Eliot-Hine as the "better option" don't have kids in Hill elementary schools, and this includes low-SES families.  Eliot-Hine raises nobody up; it drives a dynamic neighborhood population elsewhere and will continue to do so short of some super duper test-in magnet program with a city-wide draw being located there. Eliot-Hine is around far too much project housing to work for Hill gentrifiers even if the OOB population were to hit the road.  You can't take a school that's 85% FARMS, in which only around 1/3 of the kids test proficient, when more than half of the high-SES kids on the Hill test advanced, and expect anything to come of it, International Baccalaureate curriculum or no.

We are a sea of affluence interspersed with pockets of poverty.  Parent paying property tax on new homes purchased for a MINIMUM of 600K don't deserve a neighborhood middle school they're comfortable with?  Only the poor do?  Complete BS.

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