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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You seriously don't know the basics after perusing SH threads?

During the 2013-2014 school boundaries and feeders review, school system leaders refused to allow most of the nine DCPS elementary schools on Cap Hill to feed into an enlarged SH, creating a pan-Ward 6 DCPS middle school.  DCPS intransigence on the issue was supported by the politically powerful leadership of the Capitol Cluster, both admins and parents (mostly residents Wards 5, 7 and 8), and their allies at the the pro-Cluster Capitol Hill Public School Parents Organization (CHPSPO).  Sadly, most Cap Hill parents of little kids would have cheered the change.

Without the strongest Hill DCPS elementary schools--Maury, SWS and Brent--feeding into SH, the school can't improve quickly, catching up to Hardy and possibly Deal in this generation.  Ensuring that SH become a predominantly in-boundary and high SES school is now a 10-20 year project, when it could have been a 3-5 year project.  Not much more to say.
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Agreed. The Cluster PTA president at the time Vince Morris was not helpful at all and inhibited any progess for growing the neighborhood. School safety and school management administrative culture was not his concern. He seems buddy-buddy with Grosso, so that says it all and now here we are with dysfunctional feeder patterns.[/quote]

Setting aside the relative strength of the elementary schools, for me the disappointment with the school boundary review is that kids in Capitol Hill elementary schools are left with feeder rights to three different middle schools.  The cluster was happy with their boundaries and did not want to change, but because their boundaries cut a diagonal across the neighborhood, the rest of the elementary schools were divided.  Stuart Hobson may have the strongest middle school program, but they are in the smallest building with the least outdoor space.[/quote]

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