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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Students in the actual feeder elementary schools for Eliot Hine:  Tyler, Maury, Miner, Brent, Payne.  Very few of these 5th graders go to their designated school, Eliot Hine.[/quote]
[quote=Anonymous]The kids in the upper grades at the aforementioned elementary schools are mostly African American.  Yet the parents working on "holding hands" and jumping into Eliot Hine are almost all white (and middle class).  It doesn't have to mean anything nefarious is going on, but there is a an overwhelming element of race in play.[/quote]
[quote=Anonymous]And they're all committed to Eliot-Hines, no matter what, right?  Latin, BASIS, Hardy... Capitol Hill Day School...  It's just so easy to say you're committed. What's hard, is believing that this year will be substantially different from everything up until now.[/quote]
In some ways it is easy to believe things will be substantially different.  What's hard is finding a way, backed up by data, that Eliot Hine will actually be different from its own history, and different from DC's history, and different from any other struggling urban school system's history.[/quote]

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