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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think there are a few Brent kids who would go if a bunch of Maury kids go to Eliot Hine.  I have a few hesitations - I am worried about safety and about challenge.  My kid heard from a kid at Stuart Hobson that it was very strict and not challenging academically.    Now this is just one kid's opinion, but will Eliot Hine be able to do any better than Hobson and if so, how many years will it take? [/quote]

Couple of points:
- Not denying that the two are related, the core question for me is how my child will be doing, not the aggregate scores. IB might be an asset in that it does really well with differentiation. (That's maybe a reason why Deal was so successful in a short period of time.)
- My impression is that EH's safety bugs arose in transition, possibly because IB requires a lot more self-agency of kids, challenging those who aren't used to that type of environment. It takes a lot of community building and peer mediation to get that straightened out. And I hear that hard work is paying off this year.
- If you'd like to connect with parents from other schools who're familiarizing themselves with IB, EH, and Eastern, then seek them out. They're getting together in meetings, on site, and in living rooms around Capitol Hill. If you don't know where to start post to MOTH and I'm sure someone can give you a couple of contacts. If that's not an option, then look around CHPSPO for contacts (http://chpspo.org/)[/quote]

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