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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Will DCPS final tackle it’s middle school problem? So many Hill families are leaving their elementary schools for Latin and Basis in 5th grade, the ones that stay are sort of the left behinds, and the kids are now old enough to get that they didn’t win the lottery. All because there isn’t a middle school plan for DC. Is DCPS at all concerned about what this is doing to their middle schools?  [/quote]

1) We do need a middle school plan but I'd happily send my child to Stuart-Hobson.  The other middle schools need a lot more TLC than they're getting.

2) Consider that Latin and BASIS are providing high school as well and that may be the real issue.

3) I don't know when they'll tackle it.  Do you have a plan for some activism that you would like to share?[/quote]

It's interesting to see the parents for whom 10% white seems to be a threshold and they feel good about SH but not Jefferson. The schools have pretty equal math scores, with JA outperforming SH with several subgroups, including 6th graders. At SH, only about a third of the NON economically disadvantaged kids are on grade level in math. SH has a median growth percentile below the district average for math too. Clearly both schools have room to improve but it's not clear to me that one is substantially better than the other. Teachers are more likely to leave SH than JA.

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Precisely.
I don’t disagree that there’s no racial element to the JA v SH debate, but I do genuinely think part of it is that JA isn’t on the Hill. Parents are Moreno inclined to give SH a chance because it’s convenient and in the part of the neighborhood they walk around. For a Brent kid that lives in the central “old” Hill — say near Seward Square? JA is nowhere near them or near anywhere they’d ever go or near anything they’d ever identify as their neighborhood.[/quote]

Possibly, but there are lots of families who send their kids from the Brent area to BASIS and Latin and plenty of other schools at least as far away. Getting to Jefferson from Eastern Market involves taking the metro three stops and walking three blocks.[/quote]

Oh, sure... but the point is that once you're shopping for inconvenient schools that you feel no attachment to, you go with the best one. If I'm dragging my kid all over the city, I'm dragging them to Latin or Basis... not mediocre JA. I might give SH a chance because it's convenient and feels like a neighborhood school, but why would I give JA a chance over Basis or Latin?[/quote][/quote]

+1[/quote]

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