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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why should we believe that the requisite rigor will magically appear if we send our children to Eastern?

Hint: It won't.[/quote]

Because it's happened at Wilson. And it happened at Deal and Hardy. [/quote]

Right, because multiple high-performing neighborhood elementary schools feed into each of the two by-right middle schools in Upper NW, providing a  stable link to Wilson for neighborhood families.

In Ward 6, DCPS insists that the only one or two high-performing elementary schools feeds into each by-right middle school (Brent to Jefferson, Watkins to Hobson, SWS and Maury to Eliot-Hine), with Eastern as a big dead-end afterwards.

The result is that far more of the UMC neighborhood residents send their children to 5th-12th grade charters than to neighborhood middle schools and none, or close, stay in the feeder pattern for Eastern.[/quote]

Yeah, they messed up the feeders almost a decade ago and combined with the charter movement, that set progress back almost a decade.

However, there is now honors/tracking at Jefferson and Stuart Hobson which is setting up a nice advanced cohort of kids, like I said earlier most of those are going to selective high schools [b]but over time Eastern is on track to be the next Wilson.  [/b]
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What is your basis for arguing this, when UMC families in the Eastern catchment family not only aren't enrolling at Eastern, they seldom enroll in one of the feeder DCPS middle schools?  Fact is, the Eastern catchment area is more than two-thirds white these days, while the school is 0-1% white.

The Brent cohort going on to Jefferson has been really small (roughly 10% of the 4th grade families), and the Maury cohort going to Eliot-Hine only a little bigger.  Most of the Watkins and SWS 4th grade families bail for Washington Latin or BASIS.

What is the relevance of "over time."  Decades from now?  Silly.[/quote]

I am assuming you are another one of the recent gentrifiers to DC

20 years ago Wilson pyramid wasn't embraced by UMC+ folks
10 years ago Stuart Hobson wasn't embraced by UMC+ and only 1-2 of the elementary schools on the hill were

These things take time but things do change[/quote]

Wilson was more embraced by UMC 20 years ago than Eastern today, by far.  I was a student in the 90s and there were almost 20% white students.  Many UMC whites who had motivated kids succeeded there (many had siblings who did go private.) Much different than the situation at Eastern today. [/quote]

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