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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why not? [/quote]

The demographics are not there.  [b]There is no critical mass of Hill families sufficient to fill an MS.[/b]  Hence, the only path to a high-performing MS is a city-wide solution but G&T programs will not be implemented by DCPS, because the optics would be politically challenging (there would be too many white & asian kids).  Ergo, the only way to do it is for charters to come in that are challenging enough, such that anyone who is not academically high-performing will drop out.  Latin, Basis, DCI...  but nothing from DCPS.  [/quote]

This is just silly. You're telling me that if Brent, Maury, and the Cluster were all feeders to the same middle school, they couldn't fill Stuart-Hobson? That's just objectively wrong.[/quote]

They can't all have SH, it's that simple.  There are other schools already filling SH, and it is full.

So, Brent gets Jefferson instead.  Maury gets EH.  the Cluster gets SH.  There is no funnel in the DCPS system that gets the highest-performing ES students on the Hill into the same MS.  And since neither EH nor Jefferson are at capacity there's certainly no perceived need (from DCPS's point of view) for a new MS.

If I'm the parent of a 4th grader at Brent, I'm going to jump to Latin or Basis next year.  Without a critical mass of high-performing students it is very hard (not impossible - KIPP, but very, very hard) to have a high-performing school.  The only mechanism to get the highest-performing students at the best ESs on the Hill into the same MS, is G&T.  But DCPS is not interested in G&T.  Hence the dilemma.[/quote]

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