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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The main problem isn't figuring it out - it's making it happen.

I'm in-boundary for SH and would enroll my kid for 6th grade there next year IF the school were offering honors classes not only in math and ELA, but in science and social studies.

No great shake-up in the Hill middle school configuration, or anything else, would be needed to offer honors classes in ELA and social studies at SH IN ADDITION TO honors classes in ELA and math.  All that's needed is a teeny policy shift that hasn't been made, and, at the rate things are going, probably won't be made in the next decade.  DCPS won't permit a full menu of honors classes at any DCPS middle school under any circumstances, period.

The fact is, Hobson has been offering advanced math and ELA for over a decade now, but there are no plans to offer advanced science and social studies.  The latter subjects are those of greatest interest to my kid -he works above grade level in both subjects with great enthusiasm.  I've toured the school, talked to admins, talked to the science and social studies teachers, and have come away with no confidence that he'd be consistently challenged in any subject at SH.  No good,[b] we're going to BASIS, Latin [/b]or going private by 6th grade.[/quote]

[b]There are not advanced or honors social studies or science or ELA classes at BASIS or Latin either. [/quote][/b]

True - but you have (especially in the case of Basis) a self-selected group of predominantly high-performing kids.  So you don't need "honors" classes because the baseline is high.  And, at Basis, there is no social promotion - so as the years go by the cohort becomes even more high performing.[/quote]

THIS, this, and this.  If you can’t track then you look at peer groups.  It’s obvious which school has one of the highest performing peer groups in the city and it’s Basis.  It’s also true Basis could care less about social promotion.

No kids at Basis but I respect the school for adhering to a high academic standard.

As to Latin and DCI for EOTP middle/high school, it’s the same concept - peer groups.  Higher performing peer groups that are majority.
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Stuart Hobson ELA/Math is 56/24. DCI is 63/42 for middle and Latin is 63/48. Certainly a difference in math, but at SH it's tracked. The difference in ELA doesn't seem too significant.[/quote]

It's a shame about the non-tracked science and social studies classes at Hobson turning off most in-boundary parents.  The school is coming along in ELA and math. The rowdy peer group doesn't help either.  There haven't been as many brawls involving kids in red polo shirts outside the school since the new principal arrived 2.5 years ago as there were before.  Still too many for us.  [/quote]

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