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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Hill parents have reason to be fed up and pissed off with DCPS and the city council on ed issues. Many of us got involved in providing input to DCPS back during the boundary/feeder review of 2013-2014. We trooped to stakeholder meetings across town. The collective advice we gave was that we wanted a strong pan-Ward 6 middle school, possibly spanning two campuses (Eliot-Hine and Stuart Hobson). There broad support among parents for this solution, but resistance from the politically powerful Cluster's leadership. We were totally ignored. Flash forward a decade without a pan-Ward 6 by-right middle school and every DCPS program that's majority UMC on the Hill (Maury, Brent, SWS, Watkins UMC families) loses most of its IB families between 4th and 5th grades, as families jump on the Washington Latin, BASIS and DCI trains. Many families go charter even earlier, choosing language immersion programs over thriving neighborhood schools to be sure to have a viable path to 12th grade. There are two other unfortunate by-products of having been ignored. The first is that DCPS pours money into pricey renovations of Ward 6 middle schools that are nowhere near full, with no real prospect of filling up (Eliot Hine and Jefferson Academy). The second is that Eastern HS, criminally, remains around 1% white/high SES in a catchment area that's majority white/high SES. Call us mean, call us grumpy, call us whatever you want, but it's worth noting that we didn't throw our hands in the air a decade back. We were ready to dig in to help DCPS build high-performing neighborhood schools past elementary.[/quote] All the way back to 2013-14? There are parents who have been involved for 25 years or so that are still active on Capitol Hill schools. I started my engagement in 2009 or so, and still have kids in Hill schools.[/quote]
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