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[quote=Anonymous]Thank you kindly, Brent PTA parent, for posting the much lauded and very practical 2010 proposal.  I hadn't seen it before and it was pleasure to read.  Sounds like you were several years ahead of your time.  Any chance of trying again, or are IB parents in the upper grades simply resigned to BASIS and Wash Latin as the Brent and Maury MS feeds, with DCI as Tyler SI's feed.

There's a lot of chicken and egg reasoning being bandied about here.  LT isn't a good school partly because SH isn't, yet LT was recently invited to join the Cluster's party as a feeder ES on the strength of suspiciously robust test scores, helping insure that SH wil remain crappy school for a really long time, and that LT's IB population won't get a SWS preference.

What might help at this frustrating juncture for IB parents involved in Hill elementary schools is for a single-issue Ward 6 city council candidate to challenge Wells in 2014.  This person would back eliminating the OOB ES feeds into neighborhood middle schools and Wells would be forced to debate him or her, bringing the salient issues out in the open for the first time.

Parents could rally around this candidate to pressure, and embarass, Wells and DCPS.  Wouldn't hurt, since these issues aren't going away even as the local baby boom continues unabated.  The candidate would almost certainly lose, but community fragmentation might diminish as a result.  Heck, I'd run myself if I didn't have a tiny baby at home.  Maybe in 2018.

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