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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]is it worth changing from a jefferson feeder to a hobson feeder?  distance is about the same.[/quote]

I'm sure you will hear from Jefferson boosters on here... but if you care about the size of the cohort of high performing kids & the size of the cohort of truly low performing kids, SH is a no brainer. ELA is where the huge difference is and that's the skill that's more transferable to the non-tracked classes like science & social studies. SH has 6% of kids getting 1s on PARCC... Jefferson has 26%. So, in one setting, your kid's class might have 1 or 2 kids *way* below grade level (illiterate or close to it, if we're being honest); in the other, it's fully 1/4th of the class. On the flip side, SH has over 50% of kids at grade level for ELA, so even the non-tracked classes are majority kids who have the tools to do the work; at Jefferson, it's just over 1/3.[/quote]

OK, but the reality is that Stuart Hobson's leadership is half as good at that of Jefferson Academy.  Too many disciplines problems at Hobson, year after year after year.  There is too much outright bullying with the administration claiming otherwise, too many brawls outside the building, too many visits by police squad cars to break up playground fights.

I've lived right across the street from the school for almost 20 years. I lotteried my kids into Brent to avoid Watkins and won't send them to Hobson.  I'd rather move.[/quote]

This person chimes in on every SH thread to talk about what they see from their house "across the street" and what they "know" about SH...from 12 years ago. I have no horse in this race but as a frequent reader of DCUM I would admonish you to completely ignore this poster.   [/quote]

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