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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The success/failure of an urban neighborhood school system IS predicated on neighbors enrolling in their buy-right schools.

When I moved to Capitol Hill in 2000, the percentage of in-bounds students at Brent was 0%.  Yes, 0%.  I remember checking the statistic on the DCPS web site before visiting with a friend, wondering if that could possibly be right.  She's a USG employee who was tutoring a kid there weekly with a volunteer program run by the State Dept.  I remember the school being dark and dingy inside, seeing many windows that had been boarded up with wood so long that the wood was falling apart, and broken glass on a banged-up playground.

Now Brent's student body is around 2/3 IB.  Yet, a mile north, in a catchment area where the demographics aren't all that different from those in the Brent District, Stuart Hobson remains almost 80% OOB.  This is true although the SH building is a lot nicer than Brent's has ever been.

That's the story of Stuart Hobson.

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You're comparing elementary apples to middle school oranges[/quote]

Not really. There's validity to side-by-side comparisons between Brent, and Maury, and the deeply troubled Watkins-SH nexus.

The real difference hasn't been catchment area demographics, location, curricula or ages served.  The difference is found in the type of parental involvement/leadership we've seen in the last 15 years.

The pioneering Brent and Maury parents set out to primarily serve their neighborhoods and have achieved this overarching goal over time.  The Cluster parents set the much more idealistic goal of supporting a school with a wide EotP draw.  They've never really strived to create a neighborhood school collectively, so they mostly serve families from Ward 5, 7 and 8.  Ward 6 deserves better.[/quote]

Cut the crap.  If you're talking "Watkins'SH' nexus then let's talk 'Brent-Jefferson' and 'Maury-Eliot Hine'.  [/quote]

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