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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is so much simpler than it seems. It's a collective action problem. If everyone sent their kids to the local middle school, then the school would reflect the economic and social diversity of the community. Just do it.[/quote]

AAARRRRGHHH!   But there IS no one "local middle school" for Capitol Hill!  There are 3 schools that serve the area and those 3 schools are packed with OOB kids.  If Stuart-Hobson were limited to only Capitol Hill residential kids (best of the 3 since is is most centrally located), then, sure, it would be easy for Stuart-Hobson to reflect the Capitol Hill community.   Brent feeds into TWO capitol hill middle schools and neither are S-H, even though S-H is closest to Brent.  IT's NOT a collective action problem-- it's DCPS having a screwed up feeder system that undermines any collective action by the parents.[/quote]

DCPS had a chance to feed Brent to SH and decided instead to keep the feed to Jefferson in hopes that the well-organized parents and relatively academically successful students coming from Brent would breathe life into Jefferson.  It kind of worked with the Jefferson Academy starting off with a great new principal and a refreshed teaching staff and sort of an International Baccalureate program. Not sure how that is going.  Problnis that students from Brent never did and still don't choose to go there. Historically, they found a way into Hardy, Stuart Hobson, Deal privates or their own Maryland middle schools.  In the last three years, many have peeled off for charter middle schools and others continue to find places at SH or Hardy.

Denied a Stuart Hobson feed and not on board with Jefferson a few parents asked for a feed to Eliot Hine as well with the feeling they could possibly unite forces with Maury and Tyler down the road a few years.  The dual feed was granted but I know of zero Brent students who move on to Eliot Hine although a few parents are involved with a transition committee there.

DCPS was not thinking of bolstering collective action by uniting strong elementary feeds in a single middle school, they were attempting to spread the wealth and at least for the time being, the wealth is slipping through their hands to the charter middle schools instead.  Expect this same philosophy of spreading the wealth to underpin the whole process of boundary and school assignment revisions[/quote]

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