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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You can't fix under enrollment at Brookland so long as it feeds to Dunbar.

It's a sysiphean task.

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It is a huge task but it can work.  Stuart-Hobson feeds to Eastern but parents have made a lot of progress there in the last 20 years.[/quote]

PP wins the dry humor crown.  Brava.[/quote]

Thanks, but I actually was half serious.  Parents at the feeder schools are involved early, and if you have three kids you could have one in middle schooler for 6 years or more.  When I worked on the Hill in my early 20s, my co-workers who had kids would tell me about the schools and it was clear that they understood that without a good middle school, the elementary schools would stall out.  That was 15 years ago and I can see it's happening just like they said.  The positive feedback loop between improving elementaries and desirable middle school is starting to close.  I wish it were faster, but I cannot deny that progress is being made.  After Hardy, Stuart-Hobson is the next domino to fall.  After that, I don't know, maybe MacFarland or Eliot-Hine?[/quote]

Hardy has been the next domino to fall for over 50 years.  That's why Mann elementary school lost access to Deal in a lawsuit.  It was supposed to integrate Hardy (then known as Gordon) and push Shepherd into Deal.  Deal was too white so the whitest school in DC was forced out of its closest proximity school - Deal - and into Gordon.  Now Hardy.

It will be the next domino any day now though.
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