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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why not set up a comprehensive middle school on Capitol Hill spread out on two campuses? 6th grade at Stuart-Hobson and 7th and 8th grade at Elliott-Hine. Feeders would be JO Wilson, LT, Watkins, Brent, Maury, Tyler, SWS, Payne, Miner, Van Ness, and Amidon-Bowen. There could be a Spanish immersion track to support students from Tyler Bilingual as well as Hill families from LAMB and Mundo Verde looking for a neighborhood school for the MS years. Turn Jefferson into a test-in STEM MS. [/quote]

Great question for Henderson, Grosso and Allen.
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This idea has merit.  Seriously. Something a politician can ( and should ) get behind.  And it could be done in the spirit of "uniting ward 6 on the road to Eastern".  It would eliminate these funding and feeder squabbles and create incentives for everyone to work together and share resources--  The school would be the size of Deal and have the per-pupiil funding to run robust programs in academics, remediation, sports, arts and drama.  I feel like if we can get our neighborhood together in a middle school, amazing things could happen. [/quote]

I agree that this is the first proposal I have read on one of these threads about the Hill middle school situation that didn't just make me feel more hopeless because it was so obviously not a workable solution.  It is a good idea.[/quote]

I'm IB for SH and I would support this idea.  There are many great families on the Hill and this would be a way to get them all together and have a one hugely strong cohort.[/quote]

Somebody start a coalition to get this idea out in the public for a discussion.   Maybe CHPSPO would champion the idea.  Capitol Hill Public School Parents Organization seems a good umbrella for a united Hill where all the elementary schools pull in the same direction for middle and high school and share the wealth of fundraising somewhat evenly among schools.  It makes sense for so many reasons[/quote]

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