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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Re pp 2141

Why do people think that Watkins is "big, crazy with low income kids" and yet want to have their elementary schools feed to SH instead of EH? .[/quote]

You ask a good question.  I'm a Brent parent and I would consider S-H over E-H because it is much closer to my home than EH.  I think that is true for all of us IB for Brent.  SH is also smaller than EH-- it least it looks like it from the outside.  So if you value small over large, you'd likely prefer SH over EH.    "Crazy with low-income kids"-- your words, not mine-- but there is a perception that EH has a greater percentage of low-income kids than SH-- or, more ot the point, there are more high-income kids at SH than EH.

Please correct me if I am wrong about SH being closer, being smaller, and being higher SES than EH.

Thanks!  [/quote]

I'm another Brent parent and I agree with everything you say.  Also, clearly Stuart Hobson is better right now today than Elliot Hine.  Just like Watkins isn't perfect, but it's better than say, Miner.  So for Brent parents feeding into Stuart Hobson would be an improvement over the status quo.  Say we fed into Stuart Hobson, and only 30% of Brent "graduates" went on to Stuart - my son would still have good friends there on day one.

I would say in favor of EH, in the upper grades there are a bunch of Hill East people at Brent (inclusing my family).  So the EH location would work well for a lot the families in the upper grades, but location isn't enough to sell us on a school.  But I do have to say that the Jefferson location is a big turn off to me.  It just feels far and if I have to drive my kid to school - why not Hardy?  Or the Howard stem MS?  Or 2Rs?

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