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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Being that cap hill has no middle school option, I find that quite troubling.[/quote]

Capitol Hill has two middle schools: Eliot-Hine and Stuart-Hobson. You may choose not to send your children there, but that doesn't mean they are not options. We know numerous parents whose children are happy there, and my child is at Watkins and we plan to send him to Stuart-Hobson, as do many of his classmates' families.

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Oh right, the old best laid plans scenario on Cap Hill.  What happens every year is that a gaggle of high SES Watkins families articulate "plans" to send kids to SH this time of year, but only around 1/3 of the original group members turn up in the fall.  Those who stick with the plan wind up feeling hurt and cheated upon finding that most of the true blue "planners" have run off to BASIS, Latin, privates, the burbs etc.  Happy children and academically challenged children who comport themselves with dignity (hint no screaming obsenities, swearing and slugging in local alleys while neighbors call the cops) can be different things.   Hint: SH's storied "honors" classes are taught at grade level.

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