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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The thing I don't get is all the vitriol that is directed toward the Hill.  A lot of people seem to have the attitude that the Hill doesn't "deserve" more good schools because we already have some.  Guess what folks?  It's not a zero-sum game.  Bitching about the (relatively high) quality of schools on the Hill will not improve the (relatively low) quality of schools elsewhere.  Ten years ago, there was one decent school option on the Hill (Cluster).  Now there are 4-6, depending on who you ask and their standards.  That is the result of a lot of sweat equity and money by parents on the Hill, and it is absolutely replicable elsewhere.

I guess that's DCUM for you though... Better to bitch anonymously on the internet than to get off your ass and fix the problem...[/quote]

Is this mean to be ironic, or just unintentionally hilarious? The whole point of this conversation is that there is a small slice of Hill families who absolutely do not want to put their sweat equity and money into their in-bounds school and claim that the relative success enjoyed by other Hill schools is absolutely NOT replicable at Ludlow Taylor. So, yes, I agree with you that this talk of proximity preference is pure nonsense.[/quote]

You are ignorant of the history of SWS.  It WAS a neighborhood school and it was built by families on the Hill.  Almost every kid who is there currently is an inbounds Hill kid.  It hasn't even experienced one class of students from a citywide draw yet.  It is an historically neighborhood school; the petition seeks to return it to a school that serves the neighborhood in which it is located, just like every other DCPS school (except the Montessori one).[/quote]

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