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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, asked the Q from the peanut gallery at a recent open house. The answer was so muddled that I'm not clear on what sort of honors classes contingency planning the young head would do if a whole bunch of Brenties were in the pipeline for 6th grade, and actually turned up. If JA had a SH type academic tracking set up in place before my child arrived, I'd consider it as a last resort before moving. But we wouldn't "jump" without upper and lower level classes for English, math, social studies and Spanish in place, and that arrangement doesn't sound like it's in teh cards. After many years in the 'hood, DCPS isn't an institution I'm prepared to put blind faith in.[/quote]

You need to operate with the truth that you will not have answers to these questions before you enroll your child at Jefferson.  You will need to engage intensely with the school once you are there to work out a situation on the fly because....as one pp said....it's "in your family values" to do so.  If it doesn't work to your satisfaction, your child will have had a "learning experience"for her 6th grade year and you can come up with a plan B.

If that doesn't sound acceptable to you--then your "family values" are shitty, you are racist, elitist and should gtf out of the neighborhood now.

I believe that sums up the argument?[/quote]

Not so much.

More like the reason CH parents don't have a uniform vision of exactly what DCPS should do about the middle and high school situation right now is because people are generally supportive of each others choices, even if they don't match up with their own.  I.e., if your plan is to try for charter schools in 5th grade, but are willing to consider your IB (Jefferson or EH) as a backup, that's fine.  If you plan to not even try to get into charter schools at all in 5th grade because you love Brent for 5th and love the idea of Jefferson for 6th, that's fine too.  If you've got your eye on Wilson and Deal, so you start making moves to jump to a Deal feeder school as soon as possible, that's OK too.  you love the idea of a test-in middle school so much you want to stage sit ins and protests at City Hall to make it happen, go for it.

I think most people are figuring out what is best for their own kids and have the humility to recognize that maybe what works for their family isn't what should happen for other families.  This may look to outsiders like a disorganized mess of options-- and it is-- but that is what it looks like when  you mind your own business and support (or at least not suppress) the choices of others.

Bottom line-- if the uncertainty of Jefferson is not acceptable to you, then fine-- do something else.  No one whose opinion should matter to you is going to think you are racist and have shitty values.  But don't act like Jefferson is not a real option.  [/quote]

+1!  Yes -- from my experience most Hill parents are pretty tolerant of the choice paradigm even when they have reservations for themselves.  I'm not going to resent or bad mouth my charter-enrolling neighbor over their choices when I like and respect them, even if I personally would not exercise that choice myself.  I have a neighbor who worked on the establishment of one very popular charter and is nothing but tactful and respectful about our preference for supporting neighborhood schools.[/quote]

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