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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^^This is an interesting demonstration of the divide in attitude mentioned by a previous poster between many of the parents who have been active at Brent for the last 6-7 years and many of those who are entering pre school now.

Parents who started out years ago were absolutely ready to jump into a neighborhood middle school.  In fact, they were eager and fired up about the possibility.  There were numerous discussions with Rhee et al about how that might look and what would need to be in place to make that happen.

DCPS had a moment to capture the enthusiasm and dropped the ball with the pathetic Ward 6 Middle School Plan.   Now we are all headed charter and  the next wave of parents will not be nearly as easy to woo. [/quote]

This is a good point, once bitten, twice shy.  The preS parents know that the "older generation" knocked itself out to work with DCPS on a temporary Brent MS plan in 2009-2010 and not only got nowhere after a lot of hard work, but opened itself up to ugly accusations of racism and elitism.  And yes, few high SES Brent parents like what they see at S-H, even if they keep this to themselves at PTA meetings.  Simply not nearly enough challenge, good teaching, or orderliness there.  See the long, recent S-H thread to learn more.

Although the enthusiasm for neighborhood middle schools has all but vanished, you're probably going to get high-SES families into 5th within two or three years.  Unless DCPS forces Brent to let weak students lottery into 5th, families who came up from preschool will be more like to stay, perhaps for just one 5th grade class, for a variety of reasons.

For example, we might be interested in the new DC International School (DCI) MS opening up at Walter Reed in 2014, if the Yu Ying administrators and parents get their way, and that school won't start until 6th.  Most of the DCI spots will be lottery.  We might also be interested in the Two Rivers MS, which hasn't been all that difficult to lottery into for 6th.  And there will almost certainly be new charters opening, and some many not start until 6th either.  We may even get a new Hill charter MS with proximity preference.

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