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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We know a bunch of Hill families of students who went through Stuart Hobson, now in HS (mostly at Walls) or college, who seem to be doing just fine.  Some of these SH grads attend elite SLACs, Amherst, Middlebury, Swarthmore.  We also know Brent students who went through Jefferson Academy and Maury students who went through Eliot-Hine, now top students at Walls or Banneker. These families coped and supplemented uncomplainingly, living their values by sending their children to neighborhood middle schools to stay in the community they love. More power to them. We've known these sweet kids since they were tiny tots. Come on, middle school is a tough age no matter where kids land. Our family isn't OK with DCPS after ES so we choose a parochial MS, but I'm not going to slam fellow Hill parents for having made a different choice, coming here to accuse them of poor parenting.  
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lol. they only “lived their values” because their kids got into Walls … [/quote]

Seriously. When someone sends their kid to Dunbar I'll stop laughing at this idea.[/quote]

There's a HUGE difference between schools like Eliot-Hine and Jefferson and schools like Dunbar. Not all Title I schools that serve a majority population of students of color are the same quality. Leadership and teachers matter a lot. As a middle income educated parent, I would absolutely consider both Eliot Hine and Jefferson - don't have enough experience with either to say if I'd actually choose them - but Dunbar, as it is now, is a no go.

To be fair, I don't run around advertising myself as "living my values." I'm not trying to change the world or the city or even a school. I'm looking out for the quality of my own child's education first and foremost. Part of that is exposing them to diversity, but not at the expense of attending a well run school.

This gets away from the middle school discussion, but I'm sending my kid out-of-bounds to a Title I ES where they are in a very small minority of white kids. But I wouldn't go to my in-bound ES, which is also Title I, and also overwhelmingly students of color. I visited both schools and the differences were stark. I have friends who work in top administrative positions in DCPS who said they would not send to my inbound, but would absolutely choose the ES we picked.

I think many DCUM posters/DC parents get that there are big distinctions between schools that seem to serve similar demographics on paper, but then I see comments like this and I just want to remind everyone that the picture out there is a lot more nuanced than some seem to think. [/quote]

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