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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh come on, Eastern is no back-up at all, other than for a tiny number of UMC Hill families.  This is just as much of a no-brainer as it was a decade back.  The fact that the Eastern District is more than half white while the school's white enrollment is stuck in the low single digits tells us that it's not in fact "all relative."  The school is a veritable dead end.  Where's the bridge to Eastern, with most UMC Hill families avoiding the several feeder middle schools?  And even if these kids do stick with DCPS for middle school, almost all of them run to Walls, Ellington, Banneker, privates or the burbs for high school.  Those are the true "back ups," not Eastern. [/quote]

I realize it is probably pointless to engage, but I really don't get why people get so angry and defensive about schools that they don't go to. It is fine to choose any school that fits your need, but I am not sure what it is about a certain subset of the DCUM community that makes them feel better after coming on anonymous forums to insult others' choices.

Back to what was said above, things/enrollment trends change year to year, for a variety of reasons. There are hundreds of kids from Cap Hill elementary schools happy at the DCPS middle schools, as well as some kids who have returned there after trying various charters. There are also kids/families who are happy at charters or privates, which is great. More options doesn't need to be a bad thing.

Again with the white student metric for high schools, but if you insist on it, those aren't the accurate numbers currently anyway. For the families who are there, maybe they enroll there due to not getting in elsewhere, maybe it's for the IB or EPIC program or the E-Sports program. Who knows, and really not sure why everybody gets so upset about it! [/quote]

I agree it’s a strange reaction but I think it’s just a handful of really intense posters—maybe really two or three—who respond to these threads with anger and scorn. They post a lot, and it makes it seem like there are more of them than there are. [/quote]

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