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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Watkins numbers were interesting, but not surprising.  You have a large number of white families, presumably IB, bailing on the school for other options.  If you extrapolate from Peabody, Watkins should be about 35-40% white, but it's only at 20%.

While much of the focus is trying to get buy-in for Eliot Hine, maybe more of the focus should be on keeping potential Hill middle schoolers in the DCPS system.     [/quote]

My buy-in for Eliot Hine was smashed when I went on their website to find the "question of the day" for these 6th,7th and 8th graders in a get ready for DCCAS mode was "What is setting?".

Sorry, that may be the right level of inquiry for a large number of students coming out of sub-standard elementary schools, but it doesn't give me the confidence that advanced work and deep thinking is the norm there at the moment.

I know, I know don't judge an entire school by one small thing like that. But I am being truthful when I say that I was starting to thing the IB program and neighborhood support might make it a great choice and this did slam me back to reality.[/quote]

Maybe your complaint should be about the DCCAS.  I scored 800 on my SAT English and don't recall learning about setting before middle school.[/quote]

My 1st grader is learning about "setting" currently. We were discussing it last week while I was reviewing his homework. [/quote]

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