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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I can think of a dozen kids I have come in contact with (babysitters, neighbors, older siblings, etc.) who have graduated from SH in last 10 years. They've gone to Banneker, Walls, Ellington and Wilson. And a range of decent colleges, including Ivy League and top notch state schools.  [/quote]

Some kids will do well anywhere.  Most won't.  I've lived across the street from SH since the 90s. Unless their demographics shift pretty radically in the next 5 years, we're not interested for our little kids. I don't see this happening. More charters will just open to draw in the CH middle-class families who don't like their neighborhod middle school options, like Washington Latin's planned 2nd campus.[/quote]

What’s wrong with the demographics?[/quote]

Nothing, if you're fine with 80% AA and OOB and half low SES at SH in a neighborhood that's become overwhelmingly UMC and largely white.  If you're race baiting, knock if off already.[/quote]

You are scum.

PS- Hardy had similar demographics only a few years ago. The white kids didn’t die once a few started going there. My kid does to a 80% AA school and she doesn’t die at school. In fact, she’s safer at her 80% AA school than a suburban school and threat of guns.[/quote]

I don't want my Asian kid as the proverbial point man in a battle as a student at a DCPS middle school, going in first so that 4 guys behind him won't be hurt or killed. The Stuart Hobson catchment area looks to be at least 5% Asian. To my knowledge, there is just one Asian student at the school, a 6th grader whose mom tells me that they won't be back next year. No way. You guys don't get it. Every family in DC isn't white, AA or Latino.  [b]When Asian parents totally avoid a school, something is very wrong with the program.[/b][/quote]

Don't take this the wrong way, but you don't have enough numbers for anyone to care[/quote]

Speak for yourself. I'm white, IB for SH. I was lucky enough to attend Hunter College MS/HS in NYC in the 80s. Hunter's student body is more than 2/3s Asian.

If SH attracted a cohort of UMC Asian immigrant families, even a tiny one, I'd be impressed. I'd also be willing to give the program a 2nd look for my own kids.

Sorry guys, the ability to attract Asian families is the acid test of an academically sound urban public school in this country in this century. Plaudits to Deal, Hardy, BASIS + WL for supporting Asian cohorts.[/quote]

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