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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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Suzanne Wells does not speak for Ward 6 families and the CHPSPO was considered out of touch with a lot of Hill families.  There's absolutely no consensus on the MS plan, and many of the families impacted were either never on board or have already jumped ship (herself included -- moving from Cluster to Tyler).  This article (dated at that) gives the impression of a unified voice that frankly does not exist.

It's now 3 years later the game has changed.  In another three years I expect even more charter options (though some of us can buy even more time).  There will be yet another Ward 6 neighborhood elementary by 2015 bringing different demographics.

Stuart Hobson has been considered off limits in prior discussions, but that assumes the massively failed existing feeder patters retain their relevance going forward.  No one on the Hill with high performing kids will settle for 2nd rate MS options like EH or Jefferson -- DCPS will have to decide if it wants to keep its high performing students or continue to farm them out to charters (or in some cases never even get them in the door).[/quote]

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