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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They're trying hard to move a 30 million dollar plus renovation, planned for 2021 by DCPS and Bowser, up by a few years, and to build relationships with admins and the Jefferson parent organization.  All fine, it's the feeder problem that seems unworkable in under a decade.  Not nearly enough strong students in the pipeline from Tyler heading to Jefferson, and none in-boundary from Brent.  Also no 5th grade at Van Ness for another five years.  If Brent, Maury and SWS fed to the same DCPS middle school, we'd have another Deal soon.  But nobody much lobbied for that several years back, and DCPS wasn't amenable anyway.[/quote]
This is just silly, magical thinking and a unicorn. What do these three have in common? On yeah, high concentration of white, high SES students. There is no geographic logic to this at all.[/quote]
There's little geographic logic to many of DCPS's decisions (Watkins, Eaton, etc).  But the decisions that lack geographic logic are politically feasible, while combining Brent, Maury and SWS in one middle school is not.  Given that it will never happen, I do wish people stopped focusing on it.[/quote]
How about a middle school that includes Brent, SWS and Maury, PLUS Tyler, Miner and Payne?  The idea is to focus on collecting as many strong students in one building as possible, and not focus on the percentage of strong students in said school.  If you had 100 kids on day one capable of taking advanced classes then you'd have something.  The issue is that Hobson cuts through the middle of the catchment areas of these schools, and [b]Hobson used all of the Hill's political capital with its $40 million of capital improvements[/b].[/quote]

and Watkins is in the process of getting the same.  Peabody has already seen dramatic facility improvements to its beautiful yet weathered building.  The eastern half of the Watkins' boundary is seeing transformational change with a large chunk of single family homes in development.  Maybe DCPS sees potential in the Cluster because it serves Watkins/Peabody but also LT and JO Wilson and offers instant diversity for Stuart Hobson even if it shifts towards IB.   The investment makes more sense than Eliot Hine which has seen a dramatic drop in enrollment.  SH is the only fully subscribed MS in Ward 6.

Brent is sadly SOL on neighborhood MS for the foreseeable future.  Even long term when Van Ness is in play for Jefferson that's a tough sell.  I don't blame Brent families for agitating for change.[/quote]

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