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[quote=Anonymous]Call me racist or whatever, but the simple fact is that you need to get one solidly performing MS before you can get another. You're not going to get a solidly performing MS on the Hill by separating out the two best performing neighborhood elementary schools (Brent, Maury) and a very good non-neighborhood DCPS (SWS) from all of the solidly performing ones (Cluster, L-T, JO) in terms of feeder pattern. To get critical mass, you need as many "good" ESs as possible feeding in, so that 20% of each of those feeders giving the MS a chance is sufficient for the MS to turn.

Look at Deal. Feed every NW school with some high SES there even if the compromise is also feeding in lots of non-SES kids; that's totally fine. Most high SES families don't live in DC because they hate diversity (even more true of Hill residents, if I had to guess), but they want a critical mass of high SES before they'll take a chance. So, yes, after 10 years of zoning half the city to it, Deal is massively overcrowded: but because it actually works families are begging for it to stay like that! 10 years on, they redo boundaries, Deal will remain solid/overcrowding mostly solved and now Hardy has a legit chance to become the new Deal. If they'd worried about both Deal and Hardy 10 years ago and tried to split the difference, both would still suck.

Do the same thing here. Give everyone on the Hill feeder rights to SH and see what happens. It's not going to overfill in 1-3 years, it's just not. If it starts to get massively overcrowded, then it's working and we can worry about splitting the grade levels w/ E-H or Jefferson. I genuinely think it's the one politically palatable solution (test-in, which I'd love, is not going to happen) that might actually create a solid MS on the Hill. Because that MS isn't going to spring up out of nowhere because everyone distrusts DCPS for good reason, you have to do it at SH, which it's the one Hill MS that doesn't completely suck now. If in 5 or 10 years we're facing a Deal scenario? Yay! Now start working on Hardy... err, Jefferson or E-H.[/quote]

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