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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think that the problem with the boundary review process that Abigail Smith presided over was that it was far too susceptible to objections that were based on individual rather than collective interest. The idea that people's personal real estate choices must be validated by the education system was outrageous to me then and it remains outrageous now. When you buy a particular house, you assume certain things, but they are not guarantees. That a particular school will ALWAYS be tied to a particular address is a ridiculous assumption, and the idea that that is a "right" is even more ridiculous.

The system we have now sets up enclaves of success that motivated students hope to get into, while leaving an educational quality desert surrounding them. If posters want to sit there and pretend that their objections to things like boundary revisions that redistrict people from Deal to Hardy or the construction of homeless shelters in boundary for a high performing elementary are NOT motivated by person reasons, frankly, I don't believe you.[/quote]

You send your children to a low-performing school and work tirelessly to solve problems within the school thst are impossible for the school to solve, right?[/quote]

That's exactly the opposite of the PP's point, which is that this is not an individual problem; it's a group, collective-action problem.  Something like choice sets (especially in Capitol Hill) could likely result in equalizing the situation without prejudicing the "enclaves".  Breaking down the enclaves is the only way to get to an acceptable MS option on the Hill as well.  Would I want to send my child to Eliot-Hine as is?  No.  Would I try out a Ward 6 unified middle school, feeding from Tyler, Miner, Maury, Payne, Brent, Van Ness, etc, where the administration had made a committment to appropriate academic offerings? Almost certainly I would consider it.  [/quote]

Spoken like someone not currently in boundary for SH. You know what's funny about your type?  You omitted two of th three schoosl that feed into the only MS on the Hill that has promise.  Good luck to you, my myopic self centered friend.   [/quote]

Ha. I deliberately left out SH feeders because of the view that Cluster parents would freak out at any changes in their feeder pattern. But yes, the best idea would be to consolidate all the middle schools. However, if the Cluster (and perhaps LT and JOW) are going to freak out then I don't think we actually meed them. 
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Why would Maury and Miner and Payne and Tyler be included in your dream team when they are both much closer to EH than JOWilson and LT? How about straight out proximity preference for middle schools on the Hill? And HS is still a dead end. . .[/quote]

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