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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm wondering if parents who are in boundary would still mind a lot out of boundary students attending if they were at grade level or above? [/quote]

Well, when they all say in boundary, that's not really what they are talking about. It's just a coded way of saying white.[/quote]. This Asian IB mom disagrees that it’s a coded way of saying white. It’s a not so coded way of saying high SES/mostly working at or above grade level because your family is UMC, like more than 80% of residents of the SH catchment area. If DC didn’t want neighborhood schools, it should have ditched them decades ago, like my hometown (San Fran).[/quote]

As an actual SH parent I can confirm that plenty of my kid's OOB peers are in the advanced cohort.  Nearly all of the students attend because they live in catchment and/or attended Watkins, Ludlow Taylor, or JO Wilson in 5th grade.  And there are plenty of black middle class families at SH.[/quote]

OK, but DCPS still insists that SH lumps kids who read at a 3rd or 4th grade level into the same science and social studies classes as students who can work at a HS level in those subjects. The unfortunate, and permanent seeming, arrangement has been a turn-off for many of us for years. The strong former head, who quit last year, didn't seem to like it much either.

Also, SH has a much larger and equally intractable problem. The school doesn't feed into a HS that appeals to UMC Hill parents.  SH feeds into Eastern, and some of the catchment area feeds into Dunbar.  Both schools are dead ends.

The dearth of a halfway decent by-right HS is the main reason IB families in the feeders run off to the language immersion feeders to DCI, BASIS and Washington Latin. Many of us would try Hobson if it fed to a remotely acceptable HS.  It doesn't, and almost certainly, won't for at least a generation.  We can't all count on our kids testing into Walls, or feel confident that Banneker, McKinley Tech or Ellington would work for our families.
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This has less of an impact than you may think. The curriculum is the curriculum --[b] it's not like it would change any with an entirely advanced cohort.[/b]  The SS and science at SH looks a lot like that at Deal and Hardy, just with more brown faces in classrooms (and on screen these days).   And if you find public education serving all needs objectionable rather than self-segregating, private school may be a better option for you.

These thread are just so freaking tired[/quote]

Is this a joke? Of course it would change? You could have deeper discussions, move through it faster so that you could actually finish the entire curriculum and not leave any part untouched, etc. Have you no knowledge of gifted programs?[/quote]

OK -- so now you're just moving the goal posts.  Are you just the same troll on here ad nauseum about GTE?[/quote]

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