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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People are often more chill about schools if they have an adequate middle and high school feeder.   [/quote]

This. I've lived in a few different DC neighborhoods including Capitol Hill and live in an UNW Deal/Wilson feeder neighborhood now. It's so much easier to be chill when everything isn't a fight against the city and schools because you already have a good feeder path all the way through. IME, there's also a difference in how the WOTP DCPS teachers and administration behave towards parents and students. They're much more collaborative and fair. I believe it's because they understand this parent group wouldn't accept less in these established schools. I also agree with another pp who claimed that the lack of a feeder pattern drives away UMC families in otherwise good Hill DCPS schools. There's less incentive for the city and school officials to work with families when they know they're probably going to leave anyway. Just my experience, YMMV.[/quote]

Or maybe there is just more time? When you have fewer high needs students and strong test scores, there is more time for parent engagement about improvements or ideas. And dealing with a gentrifying school day to day is just more complicated and parents don’t necessarily agree about what the problems or needs are. (And yes, I know Maury and Brent are more like the WOTP school).  Capitol Hill schools are less alike than JKLMMEH, etc. [/quote]

[b]Maury and Brent also have upper grades that start peeling off for Wilson feeders[/b] and charters. The shuffling is worse elsewhere but it happens there too.[/quote]

Maybe a decade back, but very few peel off for Wilson feeders these days.  I only know a handful of families who've done this in the last few years.  Hill families seldom peel off for Wilson feeders for several obvious reasons. Getting to the feeders has become more of a hassle than it once was - traffic has worsened downtown and it's become harder to find other Hill families to carpool with.  These days, there are hardly any spots in Wilson feeders"  OOB families who try to lottery in and almost always fail.  There are more decent charter MS options, mostly far up in NE, than before. Some of the small charter middle schools are improving (e.g. ITS, Creative Minds, Two Rivers) are improving and Wash Latin will open a second campus next year.[/quote]

If the Hill families are peeling off for charters for a good feeder pattern, then the issue is still the same. Lack of guaranteed rights to a solid feeder path and the community's collective voice is fractured by kids going to multiple different schools. [/quote]

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