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[quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]

Can't add Capital Hill because the recommendations don't appear to resolve over-crowding issues there. I defined the topic as overcrowding because that is the issue that I was always told this was supposed to resolve. To your point about creating Deal@Unicorn, we were specifically told these recommendations were not about improving schools. But, if you want to create a topic about that, feel free.

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The recommendations will help resolve stirrings of over-crowding on the Hill in a roundabout way.  Because the Brent and Maury IB parents are effectively being told that they will not have viable by-right middle schools, or a high school either, for at least 15 years, the recommendations are already serving to dampen demand somewhat.

Hill parents know that demand at Washington Latin and BASIS,where there is no longer room for all comers, will increase steadily over the years.  Moreover, some aren't thrilled about what the charters offer anyway (no MS tracking at LATIN, where around one-third of 5th and 6th grade arrivals lack basic skills, and weak facilities at BASIS outside science labs).  Hardly anbody sounds excited about the prospect of a test-in option in Ward 7.

In my own little sphere of activity, the recommendations have helped convinced several IB families we know--those with early childhood program age kids looking for bigger homes to accomodate a new baby, or different sex siblings sharing a bedroom--to give up on the Hill.  These families recently bought in the burbs or Upper NW because it wasn't worth sacrificing to afford a bigger home locally.

You're going to see a few more peel off from Brent and Maury earlier, including to privates with intake years at 3rd, 4th and 5th grades.  This trend, combined with rising housing prices, will probably keep the schools from becoming crowded, although Watkins' slow decline (motivating some families to move within the Hill, or to engage in localized address cheating) will provide a small influx of new families.

The Hill needs a test-in middle school option that won't be considered.

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