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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous] I'd close Maury and Ludlow-Taylor
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I definitely wouldn't close Maury - their kick ass PTA deserves better.  I'd close LT and Payne, where 2/3 of kids are OOB or "IB" PG County address cheaters using grandmothers to generate utility bills in parents' names, the PTAs are controlled by low-SES intransigents, and there is almost no momentum for IB middle-class enrollment above PS.

With all the upper-middle-class parents being siphoned off to charters, the burbs and privates, it's difficult to imagine SH offering suburban level challenge in the forseeable future, let alone EH.  You need a critical mass of those parents to push for high wattage middle school ability gropuing and they're dropping out of DCPS like crazy, partly because the Cluster leadership remains deeply territorial.

The Hill will probably simply lose more and more high-SES parents to future charters, like DC International at Walter Reed (a Yu Ying creation that will probably open in 2014-2015) and privates. Hence, I'll be surprised if SH attracts more than 1/4 high-SES (up from around 15% now) within 5-10 years.  Current MS planners just don't seem serious/practical about what it would take to provide challenge for advanced learners at the middle school level (read run of the mill high-SES and a few high-performing low-SES kids).

I, too, feel reluctant to get involved, athough I'm an active ES PTA parent of a pres kid, because the chance of a pay-off seems slight, even 7 or 8 years hence.

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