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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Correction ----  I live near Stanton Park and now my in-bounds elementary school is Watkins, which is far away and [b]has a lot of troubled students.[/b] SWS should have a boundary that includes Stanton Park, or else Ludlow's boundary should move SOUTH to include Stanton (or Maury move west to include Stanton).[/quote]

Curious how you know/discern this? Watkins does have high OOB and a significant FARMS. Is that what you are equating with troubled? It is a large elementary school, I think largest in Ward 6. But that of itself doesn't shed any light on why you perceive it as having troubled kids. I am in-bounds and a long-time Peabody/SWS (when it was in the Cluster) and Watkins parent. FWIW, Watkins white students have some of the highest achievement in DC-CAS in the city. Again, if you are drawing conclusions just from the racial/SES make-up of the school. And many OOB are actually Hill kids.

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No, Tyler is the largest in Ward 6. [/quote]

Where are you getting up to date numbers for Tyler over Watkins? Last year Tyler was 507 and Watkins 545 according to DCPS. I know Watkins has shrunk the number of children - at least the number of classrooms - and Tyler has grown some this year. Peabody-Watkins together dwarfs all the other Ps3-5 in Ward 6. There may be something to the question of troubled kids while Tyler and Watkins are roughly the same number of kids but Tyler is PS3-5 but Watkins is 1-5 only. The older cohort could account for that perception, whether based on actual facts or not. I seem to recall when someone posted the data in the Watkins thread on homeless children in various schools, Tyler exceeded Watkins. Not that homelessness = troubled by definition.

The SWS argument for IB is over. Get over it. I am also a long-time Watkins parent with kids who were both in SWS and Peabody. My kids are too old to have been able to continue with SWS as it grows grades. But I am not crying about it. [/quote]

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