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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why should Allen do anything to advance MS development?  He'll get voted out if he continues to do little?  Almost certainly not - longtime Hill realtors will tell you that only around 1/4 of Hill residents and potential buyers, give a hoot about Ward 6 MS quality at any given time.  Even if Allen wanted to take bold steps to bolster stakeholder confidence in SH, EH and Jefferson, what could he possibly do from Ward 6, even if Grosso supported him?

The sad fact is that DCPS elected to lavish 40 million on renovating Stuart Hobson, a medium-sized school that isn't very popular with most neighborhood residents, although it serves only 3 of the 9 Hill ES communities.  The decision has virtually emptied Ward 6 ed money coffers.  [b]The three strongest local elementary programs--Brent, Maury and SWS--were not permitted to feed into one MS as a result of the 2014 boundary and feeder review, despite strong support for this solution across Cap Hill.  [/b]Moreover, the strongest students in the 3 schools feeding into SH, concentrated at Watkins, tend to end up at BASIS and/or Latin, not SH.  As a result, a Deal caliber program can't emerge at any of the schools, at least without a new test-in program, for a good 20 years.

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This gerrymandering fever-dream never fails to enrage me. Other than de facto segregation, and hence almost exclusively high SES, these schools share nothing that would warrant them feeding into a single MS by themselves. They aren't large enough to fill one MS by themselves. As it is, Brent has a choice of E-H as well as Jefferson, and both SWS and Maury were intended to feed to E-H too. So what was the problem there? Oh that's right, other Hill schools like Payne and Miner were also supposed to feed to E-H, so that was a non-starter.

FWIW, I have one kid who went through SH, and on to Walls and one who will follow. And we are definitely in the high SES bracket, maybe in one of the highest. We were fine with the kids coming from JOW and LT at SH.[/quote]

how does "gerrymandering" apply to SWS?  It doesn't even have a boundary[/quote]

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