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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This mom of a bright, not-so-rich Brent kid regrets attending a Jefferson open house. Our PTA spin doctors now count me among those seriously interested in the school after learning more, when the opposite is true. I can't see a suitably advanced academic program springing up at Jefferson at all, let alone in the few years we have before middle school. My kid attended a Johns Hopkins CTY camp last summer, finding social studies hard for the first time.

Four fourth graders without siblings are into Latin while two dozen applied. We are an upper grades school community in trouble, folks.

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Do you really regret going to an open house? I would think you would now feel more informed about your options and whether they are suitable or not suitable for your daughter.

What I don't understand about this situation is why some Brent parents feel that other parents working on behalf of Jefferson is an affront. No one is saying that Jefferson is the right fit for every child or that every kid going through Brent should go to Jefferson. To me, working to improve the by-rights middle school seems like a desirable thing for the community not an insult.[/quote]

Absolutely is not an affront. The problem is that--and this has happened before--the few parent leaders who optimistically dive in to "improving" or "helping"'or "promoting" Jefferson give DCPS leadership and our politicians the impression that everything is fine with the feeder patterns in Ward 6 and an ability to spew PR about neighborhood buy-in to the plan.  It basically makes it impossible for people unhappy with the status quo structure of small, splintered, woe-fully underperforming middle schools to get any traction. The worst part is that these "activists" DONT send their students there anyway and then the cycle starts again.

There is a difference between supporting our neighborhood middle schools and the students who are there now through fundraising, advocacy attending events, volunteering to tutor or give internships etc.    and what is happening now which is parent leadership insisting they will be sending their own students there and that they are laying the ground work by getting involved.[/quote]

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