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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Except most people are not really all that condescending or convinced in real life off this board.  Or they do not really seem that way anyways…[/quote]

Agree. If CH parents are using this board to vent their toxicity so that they can be more reasonable IRL, then I'm fine with it!

I do think that MS is when you really begin to see the differences between families and what they value, which is why I don't think a pan-Hill MS would ever work, and don't expect that Eastern will ever get huge neighborhood buy-in. In the suburbs, you have these huge schools that offer everything to everyone, but this isn't possible in DC with the charter system already in place.[/quote]

I think you are right you will never get enough buy-in for a pan-Hill MS or large IB investment in Eastern, but I don't think it's because DC is inherently hostile to those things. JR and Deal have this, and Macarthur and Hardy are well on their way. JR offers a huge number of programs and activities, certainly enough to compete with many, if not all, of the suburban HSs.

But I think the way schools developed on the Hill, with first the development of of SWS and CHMS as alternatives to the traditional DCPS schools (and CHMS including a MS), and then the full development of charters EOTP to the degree where a very large percentage of Ward 6 families use charters, both in Ward 6 and in adjacent wards, will make it hard if not impossible to get that kind of agreement and buy-in. Parents in Ward 6 are fully sold on public school choice in a way that families in Ward 3 never were -- they always viewed it as good publics v. private and charters or alternative public schools like SWS/CHMS were not an option as that triangle developed.

I know a handful of families on the Hill who actually really hate the charter school system in DC for this reason, and think it stymied the possibility of a strong DCPS school triangle in Ward 6. [/quote]

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