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[b]Define urgent.[/b]  You're with DCPS in wanting to wait decades until we have decent neighborhood middle schools?  Why should the city wait? 
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A reasonable question. I think the urgent priorities for DCPS in dealing with high SES areas (they also have urgent issues in improving education for the more at risk, of course) are making Hardy a successful neighborhood school (achieves the same thing that fixing the Hill does, but is almost certainly a lot easier) improving EOTP elementaries, and implementing the proposed new middle schools.   At that time (5 years? ten years?) they can seriously reexamine the Hill - by that point they may also have improved EOTR schools enough to make OOB access to the Hill less of a political hot button.   Or, maybe, ongoing demographic change will partially solve the problem, and open up new options for solving it.   [/quote]

I'm sure you're right but what's sad about DCPS kissing off the Hill parents of kids already in IB elementary schools is that the leadership is squandering a tremendous opportunity in real time.  It is this: the chance to harness the prodigous organizational and fund-raising savvy of the interpid professional parent architects of the Maury, Brent, SWS and Tyler SI success stories.

These terrific parents ask for little, work together well, and are prepared to do yeomans work to help ensure that all boats rise with the tide in local schools.   But you can't stack the cards against them at several struggling by-right middle schools and expect the massive investment in Eastern to pay dividends in under 20 years.  Under such terms, demographic change cannot solve the Hill middle school problem.  It can only improve Stuart Hobson, and only a little.

What bothers me most the Hill MS mess is the appalling lack of honesty from on high.  If any pol involved would go on record with your cold-eyed analysis, rather than feeding us BS about bright prospects for our grim MS feeders, we'd be better off, at least psychologically.

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