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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hi this is the OP.  Thank you to everyone who wrote helpful comments.  My child just started at a school in NE that is not a Stuart-Hobson feeder, and I am hoping to switch into JO Wilson so that we can have a better school and access to Stuart-Hobson.  However, I understand that that will require a good lottery number and may not happen.  I am also aware that the preschool-8th Education Campuses may not always be Education Campuses, and I'm not sure what our options for middle school would be in that case.  I wanted to know more about Stuart-Hobson in case my child ends up in a feeder to it, but also because it's hard to know what to expect if that doesn't happen.  So I wanted to understand the whole story just as background knowledge.  I would love for someone to tell the tale of Eliot-Hine, McKinley Middle, Brookland Middle, etc.  I am trying to piece it together but there seem to be so many different opinions and viewpoints out there, that I'm not sure what to believe.

Middle school is a very hard thing to do well, and I understand that.  [b]It takes a long time and a lot of parent involvement.[/b]  I know that my child's needs may be hard to predict, but if I wait until my child is in 6th grade to take an interest in the middle schools, it will be too late.   [/quote]

It will be too late regardless in view of current Hill ES-MS feeder patterns. Just ask the former Brent PTA parents/current BASIS and Wash Latin parents who were lobbying hard for new feeder patterns for the several years before the top-down 2013-14 city-wide boundary/feeder review was finalized.

Sorry, no, it doesn't take a long time and a lot of parental involvement here on the Hill.  It takes voting in a mayor determined to dissuade most high SES DC parents from fleeing the system, policy changes s/he make to support the introduction of ES GT and above-grade-level classes for the most advanced DCPS middle school kids, and his or her blessing to set up strong test-in MS programs with a city-wide draw.  Test-in HS programs that aren't supported by affirmative-action based admissions wouldn't hurt either.

We won't get any of that in this particular city for at least a decade due to the obnoxious political climate, probably 15 to 20 years.[/quote]

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