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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Please, the Turtle Park group (mostly comprised of in-boundary parents of babies and toddlers) was trying to make the school work for its catchment area for the first time since the 1970s.  They were also trying to make the school work for families who lotteried in and the existing school population.  No point in splitting hairs over what the hierarchy of contributing factors was.  Better just to applaud them.

They did such a fine job that now Brent finally has an entire K class of IB kids, 15 years in from the group members rolling their sleeves up.

Watkins has been a much tougher nut to crack (if you believe in DCPS neighborhood schools serving neighbors first and foremost).  It was far too big, and characterized by [b]vice-like OOB ownership[/b].  The pre-turnaround OOB group at Maury and Brent weren't nearly as invested.[/quote]

I'm not going to quibble with this statement but it is illuminating. One of the reasons that the OOB population have this sway at Watkins is because they have been invested in the school for years, decades even. Certainly for longer than many IB who chose to bypass Watkins. The OOB cohort includes parents who themselves went to Watkins and many of whom lived IB when they did. Watkins also has a bit of a Ward 9 problem some of whom are also second-generation Watkins students. So it isn't that Watkins lacked commitment from families trying to make it work it is just that there has always been a mix of OOB and IB Cluster diehards (like our family) present. The big nut is the achievement gap at Watkins and if that were solved I don't think anyone would be questioning the commitment to make it work. [/quote]

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