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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We have a good idea of how it would work from what has happened at SH in the last 6 or 7 years.  The Hobson experience teaches that if you attract at least a dozen high-performing students to a DCPS 6th grade, the school starts providing English, math classes and possibly science and social studies classes pitched at grade level.  The parents organize after school foreign language.  Electives like art, music and PE are not going to be ability tracked.

Make no mistake, housing project MS kids can be rough. When you're at a school like Brent, when there are few, you don't get a good feel for how tough their homes lives really are.  My neighbors pulled out of SH after 6th grade, because their shy daughter was coming home in tears on a regular basis (after being called vulgar names, mildly threatened, shoved, tripped, pushed etc. by small groups of kids outside the building). Schools with lots of project kids generally foster a book camp type atmosphere inside the building to keep kids in line.  What happens on the playground and on sidewalks around the school is another matter. Admins advised the family to suck it up. They didn't- they bailed for Deal by moving.  [/quote]

Has anyone observed a bootcamp like atmosphere inside Jefferson? Everything I've heard is that it is quite the opposite. I haven't hear much about the playground and around the school though. I imagine that could be rougher.[/quote]

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