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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Huh? The Capitol Cluster School, Peabody, Watkins, Stuart Hobson, still a cluster spread over 3 campuses.  https://www.capitolhillclusterschool.org/
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It really isn't. When it was an actual cluster it was three schools with one administration. SH was split off some time ago. Other than calling it a "cluster" please tell me how SH is in any way related to P/W? Bonus question, how is SH any more connected to P/W than LT or JO, which also feed to SH?

The only people who cling to the cluster concept are the PTA, who seem to enjoy having access to more money and power. It actually holds back SH. So weel done, "Cluster" PTA.[/quote]

+1 our kids attend an SH feeder that is not part of the “Cluster” Snd people who still use this terminology are alienating. I don’t think it’s the primary reason so many families go charter/private/move, but it doesn’t help.

A persistent problem on the Hill is this kind of insular attitude about schools, FYI. You encounter similar attitudes from longtime families whose kids attend or attended SWS or CHMS. Even some families at some of the boundary schools behave this way. It’s this attitude like “we built this, you can’t have it.” It’s counterproductive. These are public schools. You should want people with young kids, people who recently moved here, people who lottery in from OOB to feel welcome, because they are part of your community now. Acting proprietary and exclusive doesn’t improve the stuff that needs to be fixed. And there is plenty that needs to be fixed.[/quote]

+1 my kids are at L-T, which I actually think is extremely welcoming of new families in general. I find it off-putting that SH does fundraising with Watkins and asks Peabody/Watkins kids to be in their school musical (not so shockingly, funded by their joint PTA) but not L-T kids. (For the record, L-T is much much closer to SH than Watkins, so this obviously isn't a logistical issue... it's a Watkins feeling like they own SH issue.) It also seems incredibly short-sighted since L-T is the school with the exploding population of UMC kids whose buy-in could completely change the demographics of SH if Watkins buy-in remained constant. It's like the Watkins PTA wrote of JO and L-T kids as the unwashed masses years ago and haven't even realized that L-T is now more IB/gentrified than Watkins.[/quote]

I have no idea if what PP wrote is accurate. If so, the "Cluster" PTO and SH administration should all resign en masse tomorrow. WTF???!!! There are 3 ES that feed into SH. The challenge for improving SH is to get IB kids to stay IB. And it would appear that the way in which SH (and their PTA) decided to do reach out is to ignore 2/3 of the feeders? Including the one that is by far the most well respected in terms of academic outcomes???!!! No wonder SH has been unable to get traction if this is how the administration and formal parent groups behave.  [/quote]

It's definitely true. The Cluster PTA helps fund the shows and they are billed as Cluster productions and tickets are sold at the Cluster schools and feature cameos from Peabody/Watkins kids. See, for instance: https://mobile.twitter.com/shmsdramaplayer/status/1060720278555295745/photo/1 or https://mobile.twitter.com/shmsdramaplayer/status/1130226100842520576/photo/1. They have never once reached out to L-T and when an L-T teacher asked about including L-T kids the year before COVID, they basically got the brush off (though some younger siblings of SH kids at SWS & their friends were included in one production). I don't actually blame the Cluster PTA at all and I'm glad they're willing to fund the arts and I get why they'd angle for spots for their own kids, but if they can't see why this is alienating to other parents/kids who are zoned for SH, well... [/quote]

The shared PTA predates adding LT and JO as feeders to SH. They also share an LSAT. SWS also has participated in the musical — they were part of the cluster, along with CH Montessori, as preschools for years before the preschools were split up. I’m not particularly defending the Cluster model — it was set up in the 80s and is probably a solution for another time. But it’s not like the current parents set it up to exclude LT and JO.[/quote]

Thanks Captain Obvious. No one was questioning why there was a connection when the schools were actually connected with a shared admin, etc. After SWS split from Peabody it was de facto also still part of that community. But JO and LT have fed into SH for a very long time (10 years at this point?). There is no reason or excuse or explanation for it now. [/quote]

Perhaps it is an subconscious response to all the over the top LT parents on here who try to force meme the idea that LT is, first, far better than Watkins and, second, just like Brent and Maury now.[/quote]

I am not IB for LT and I have no kids at LT. I am IB for SH. LT is empirically a better school than P/W and JO. You would have to be delusional not to know that.

What was the point of our post, may I ask? Are you IB for P/W and having a moment of inferiority? Or are you a Brent or Maury family that feels better putting others down, as if another school rising is somehow bad for your perceived superiority?[/quote]

[b]I am sure all the Watkins families will throw up the doors [/b]so that their betters at LT can save them from their demise.  Seems to me a lot of people on here are a bit tone deaf.  If you want to be part of something, it’s usually not a great strategy to spend your time talking about how awful the group is.[/quote]

So you acknowledge that Watkins and SH are excluding the other feeder schools? [/quote]

You accuse other posters of being tone deaf while implying that Watkins PTA should be able to “throw up the doors” to SH… which, you know, is not their actual school any more than it is JO and LT’s school?[/quote]

She lacks the self-awareness to comprehend what she did there. [/quote]

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