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https://twitter.com/christineclapp/status/1510316803423096834

https://twitter.com/HeatherSchoell[/quote]

Yeah, ok. But there is a reason these three are busy tweeting about their kid’s school choices. Seriously how many of us tweet out our kid’s school name and activities constantly. And pretty much no one else at Eastern doing that. Check the tags🙄

There’s an agenda/identity thing going on. If they were just casually sending their kid to school we wouldn’t be hearing about it on twitter.[/quote]

I am a little late to this thread, and may be speaking into the void here, but I wanted to offer a different perspective. There are great programs and good things happening at a lot of schools across the city - in addition to the few select schools that are always mentioned on DCUM.  As we know from this website, many people make decisions and assumptions about schools without actually knowing anybody at the school, and without any firsthand experience. What some may view as over-sharing may also be an effort to share their experience so people can make more informed decisions and avoid stereotypes/assumptions about schools. 
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Please go ahead and tell us specifically which schools have great programs and good things happening.  And please do explain why the middle school test scores are so low, and why [b]so many people who give Jefferson and Eliot-Hine a try in 6th grade do not stick around for 7th[/b].
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So many? If you're going to make an assertion like this, I assume you have some statistics. [b]What percentage of students who attend sixth grade at Eliot-Hine and Jefferson do not return for seventh grade? And how does that percentage compare to that other schools? [/b]

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NP.  The thing is, hard info about high SES/in-boundary Jefferson and Eliot-Hine isn't available. DCPS doesn't publish it. You can ask around if you know Maury and Brent families who've tried the middle schools to get rough estimates but that's about it.  But the in-boundary UMC parents who enroll at these schools are pretty ideological, constantly spinning positive no matter what the story is.  I admire their fighting spirit, but never really know what to think about their take on the schools.  Fact is, the great majority of UMC Hill families still vote with their feet out of DCPS after 4th or 5th grade.[/quote]

The Maury families going to E-H are not spinning/ideological. [b]I am still gathering info but I think they are largely motivated by wanting to send their kids to the school down the road, keeping friends together, the new building, and a supportive principal.[/b] None of that means I’ll send my kid there but it is not ideological to want to have your kid walk to MS from home …. [/quote]

I'm swayed by this argument for avoiding DCI (multi-leg, hour-long commute by public transportation). Not swayed for EH, SH or JA when the commute to BASIS is 20 mins by bus or Metro. The IB Ward 6 middle-school parents are spinning/ideological as a group, driven by their politics as much as anything else. I don't blame them but tire of the disingenuous arguments about what drives them. We got sick of them in ES and don't want to be around them for MS. We're hardly alone on that score.
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I'm not sure what this argument is about. If people are staying because they didn't get a lottery spot they liked, they're staying.  The "staying" isn't somehow diminished by the fact that they didn't get into Latin ... there's always another option out there somewhere; none of us would be here if we won the lottery.  There's nothing disingenuous about it.  But sure if you're "sick of them" and want to move to the burbs, go ahead! [/quote]

If you're sick of them, like I am, you go charter or private if you don't want to move to the burbs.  [/quote]

Ok, good luck to you, then.  [/quote]

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