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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh shut up, reverse racism-minded troll.  Some of us will have to move if the Hill MS situation doesn't get sorted out within the next five years or so if there isn't room at BASIS, Latin and possibly DC Global (there won't be, not for all comers).  I don't know anybody at Brent who's planning to send a child to Jefferson Academy.  Even the K and 1st grade families seem to think that the school is a bridge too far in under a decade.  And these are parents who're paying attention.   I went to a Jefferson open house with some lower grades Brent parents last year and we left shaking our heads.  The academics seemed several hundreds miles away from what would work for us, and not because the leadership or teaching were weak.  The housing projects, multigenerational urban poverty and the absence of a test-in program are the problems of course.
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Jefferson is only 34% inbound.  If you have confidence in the leadership and teaching, why not try it out as a cohort? How is that different than what Brent parents did a decade ago?[/quote]

Utterly and completely different.  A decade ago, Brent parents of babies and toddlers convinced neighbors to start using a school that was 0% in-boundary (really) in a 10 block square catchment area.  The small upscale catchment area had almost no public housing.

When you "try out" a struggling middle school mainly serving low-income families for your kid as a cohort, the joke is on you fast.  Most of the other high SES families bail after a year or so (the story at Stuart Hobson forever and a day) and then you have no middle school.  You end up at 7th grade in VA or MoCo; few private schools will take 7th graders, even if you have the dough.   If Jefferson Academy offered a serious test-in program, like the one planned in Ward 7, some of us might indeed try it.

The strong leadership and teaching at Jefferson Academy are geared toward bringing the bottom up, vs. toward challenging your "advanced" (read garden variety high SES kid with professional parents).  The achievement gap in ES is much narrower at the get go, and the peer group much less of a concern.
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