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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The goal of trying to retain the middle and upper-class families of Capitol Hill is a worthy one. The problem is how?

The Ward 6 middle school plan, which was drafted by Capitol Hill parents, requested the formation of academies at Jefferson and the IB program at Eliot-Hine. However, nobody is embracing either one of these options. Is the solution really to try to route kids to Stuart Hobson?

Sometimes it feels like the Hill parents are only paying lip service to DCPS middle schools and will never be satisfied with the reality.[/quote]

I can assure you that Hill parents of EC/ES children had no say in the plans for EH or Jefferson, and if the inputs came from Hill schools PTAs composed of OOB residents vs actual inbound residents, I'd have to question the motives and legitimacy of any of those plans.

Hill parents aren't paying lip service to DCPS  -- many are giving it a shot in EC & ES and hit a point of dissatisfaction approaching or at MS.  They'll continue to seek out charter and private schools if necessary, but I know of few Hill families who consider that a preferable choice to a good neighborhood MS.  [/quote]

Well, allow me to point you to this article from March 2010
D.C. Ward 6 parents seek new options for middle school
[url]http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/11/AR2010031102574.html[/url]

One quote:

<blockquote>"We want to expand choices for parents," said Suzanne Wells, a parent at Tyler Elementary and leader of the Capitol Hill Public School Parent Organization, a coalition of PTA members from schools in the area.

At the urging of D.C. Council member Tommy Wells (D-Ward 6), who is no relation to Suzanne Wells, the group has developed a three-tiered proposal, unveiled Wednesday night during a meeting at Stuart-Hobson.

A key component is Eliot-Hine's growth into a middle school modeled after Deal, with an enrollment of 850 -- it currently has about 300 students -- and an expansion of academic offerings to include an International Baccalaureate program and Spanish-immersion classes for students coming from a similar program at Tyler.

Parents are also proposing that two elementary schools, Brent and Miner, be expanded through the eighth grade to incorporate relatively small middle schools. </blockquote>

This proposal was what largely drove DCPS' Ward 6 middle school plan. Obviously, the Brent and Miner middle schools didn't come about. But the point is, parents keep changing their minds! Now they are looking to Stuart Hobson to save the middle schools, when not three years ago they were asking for an expansion of Eliot-Hine. So it's no wonder that Tommy Wells is "unresponsive."

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