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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We liked Watkins pretty well for 1st grade, and were OK with it for 2nd. But we bailed after 2nd (last year) with lottery luck to jump to a different Hill DCPS. The new program offers much better opportunities for advanced learners, real language instruction, a better developed arts program and, frankly, a lot more fun. We moved on though our middle school prospects at the new school are much worse (OOB for the Cluster and the new school). We plan to stay at the new school through 5th.

It's not that Watkins is a bad school, it's that it's that it's a make-do program for high SES families who aren't Cluster boosters. You only feel so much warmth from your IB school when most of the families don't live on the Hill (so you don't see most of the kids around the neighborhood).

The biggest problem is that the principal isn't in your corner. Her MO is "Don't worry about the high SES kids, they'll do fine regardless. I focus my energies on bringing up the bottom/closing the achievement gap." We didn't have the patience to stick with this approach (though we really admire parents who have the patience).

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You may have left but the growing IB % shows that more neighborhood families are staying.[/quote]

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