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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People have to band together to go to Watkins first in the case of SH.  Having a divide between Peabody and Watkins makes a lot of people stop.[/quote]

That's non-sense! Stuart-Hobson is an excellent school (I've got kids there and can attest to that) but for Hilleast and areas around Maury and Tyler etc. Eliot-Hine is not only more convenient but also has more to offer in the mid-term and most certainly in the long run. Stuart-Hobson is not meant to grow much beyond 400. And it's neither Maury nor Brent's job to shore up Watkins. Watkins will have to (and can) take care of that.[/quote]

Don't blamer the poster. The parents of Brent and Peabody and Maury don't realize there are other schools on the Hill. Of course, when the newly modernized SH is done and is being fed by up and coming feeders of JO, LT and P/W they might notice. [b]Do the Brent parents really think their kids can carry their Jefferson all by themselves?[/b] [/quote]

They are not going to Jefferson, failing some scheme that somehow sends all of the high SES kids on the Hill to the same MS.[/quote]

I'm confused by the cadre of Brent posters. On one hand there seems to be a unanimous position that they will [b]not[/b] send their kids to Jefferson. And there's this chip on the shoulder that they were shut out of SH. And yet at the same time they take shots at SH. Which is why I can't help but conclude that there's this subconscious view that SH isn't good enough, but it would be if only Brent parents were there. Unless of course the first angry Brent poster was right and Brent now feeds into Basis and Latin ;). Problem for Brent is this: it is a great school, clearly the best on the Hill. But it's topped out and there's nowhere for the kids to go in MS because so many Brent parents refuse to consider Jefferson, and if they won't consider the feeder MS then how does it get better or increase the IB %? So as other schools come up (Ludlow, JO) and SH is an option with millions spent on modernization, how long can Brent be THE school? And what happens to your property values when that happens? [/quote]

Hahahaha. This is hilarious. Get back to us in a decade. If Ludlow-Taylor, J.O.Wilson, and Stuart Hobson are great by then, trust that Brent and its middle school options will have improved too. 
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