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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Community buy-in at SH is built less on location than its status as a CH Cluster School fed by Watkins-Peabody.  There have been at least 40 white kids at SH in 6th-8th grades each year for the last two decades.  As you may know, SH housed Watkins' 5th grade up until 2008. Jefferson Academy had to start attracting UMC CH families from scratch around 5 years ago.  With Latin Cooper going strong, the upward struggle to attract neighborhood talent without designated honors classes outside math at both schools continues.  If BASIS gets permission to open a K-4 school, the struggle is only going to intensify.[/quote]

The "cluster" concept means nothing to most people on the Hill who still have kids in DCPS. I mean, your own post says SH houses Watkins 5th grade [b][u]up until 2008[/u][/b]. 2008!!!! That was 14 years ago my friend. A 5th grader at SH that year would be a law school grad by now.

I know there are a lot of old timers on DCUM who still remember fondly the cluster wars. You are all adorable. [/quote]

See forest for the trees perhaps.  Somebody posted about stronger IB buy-in for SH than Jefferson, although, in many respects, Jefferson has more to offer (I agree).  There's a history to SH's buy-in, which isn't strong to this day.  Point is, the Ward 6 DCPS middle school situation hasn't come out of nowhere and isn't in danger of being fixed within the next decade as a result.  The wild card now is BASIS' K-4 school, which could mop up 2/3 of the BASIS 5th grade spots within a few short years. Might not be a bad idea to pay attention if you have lower grades kids at Maury, Brent, LT, SWS, Watkins and plan to stay on the Hill after ES. I'm sort of shocked that Latin Cooper's May and June WL went from around 50 names last year to 250 this year.  Adorable, yea.[/quote]

The cluster is a non-issue that no one who moved to CH in the last 5-10 years knows anything about. Or cares. [/quote]

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