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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]20-25% in-boundary for the last 15 years is what's unacceptable.

[b]Parents' perceptions of schools are as relevant as test scores and programming.[/b] Arguably, Brent students would do better on the PARCC if the school didn't offer five specials, rather than fewer like the other Hill DCPS ES.  Brent parents must like five specials (the norm in JKLM), even if they come at the expense of slightly depressed PARCC scores for the demographic.

[b]It's also true that Brent and Maury attract and retain most IB parents through 4th grade[/b], while Ludlow doesn't yet. The fact that Ludlow's on its 3rd principal in five years hasn't been ideal. On current trends, Ludlow will continue to come along, catching up to Maury eventually on the IB buy-in front. But pretending that most IB parents ARE sold on Ludlow for the upper grades simply because they SHOULD BE gets us nowhere.

A decade back, I thought that that [b]most IB parents would be enrolling[/b] their 11 year olds at SH by 2018. Yet only around 1/4 of them, 1/3 tops, are doing this. Yes, the school is improving, but not nearly fast enough for most. DCPS and fellow parents can't order them to enroll, or to move to the burbs either. Parents must be incentivized to feel excited about a school to enroll and stay.

With political will, two DCPS Hill middle schools could have worked.   [/quote]

Ummm, no, they aren't!!!!!! While appreciate you putting your ignorance down for all to see...jeez lady.  Hard data that indicates how well the population is doing and how well it improves is much more important. But yet again there's another Brent parent making my point for me. What you care about is that children who look just like you. Which is why you believe that no school can succeed without Brent.

If Brent is retaining kids through 4th then why are their scores dropping? Your claim that it is because there are too many specials is..."special. I would suggest to you that it might be because the advantages of the upper middle class start to fade in 4th. Kids who grew up with camps and coaches and parents reading to them every night (and full stomachs) get caught by kids who had the benefit of quality education from PS up. If you look at the [i]actual data[/i] you will see that Brent's scores in 3rd relative the SH feeders start to fade in 4th. But hey, you don't care about data; you care about "feel". Of course IB isn't important when you are talking about Latin and Basis; then it's about educational outcomes. Hmmmmmm....

IB kids enrolling is the next step. Step one is kids in feeders rising into SH; and that is happening now. When cohorts with good educational outcomes rise to the MS then IB parents commit to those good educational outcomes, etc. I'm simply confused by your occasional cite to data whilest you willfully ignore all available data that doesn't suit your needs. You cannot argue that the data indicates that "nothing has changed". I mean, you can, but it just makes you look silly.

But hey, I get it, you are IB for Brent and you are scared. You have a little school that has performed well and nothing has changed for your MS trajectory. And you are watching poors and dark skinned people in other Hill schools outperform your snowflakes. And you think you have some god given right to what those poor people are taking from you. The redistricting wasn't "fair". People didn't appropriately value your whiteness and high SES-ness. And you are bitter. May I suggest, however, that at this point the whining about SH and the feeders isn't going to help your cause. You would be better served trying to figure out how to improve your IB MS.  I mean, if you feel better complaining about SH while you pine for an alternate reality that has it as your IB MS go on with your bad self.

P.S. There's something else you and your neighbors seem not to have noticed. The IB population for the SH feeders has gotten wealthier, more educated and more politically connected. There was a time when our Ward 6 rep's office actually told a meeting of neighbors from north of H that we should try and talk to our rep (she didn't know her district went to Florida). She could get away with that because it was really only the Brent-like areas that voted or had connections. Those days are over, my dear. We have money and big mouths and we quite like the trajectory of SH. So while you whine and complain both about being excluded and the abject failure of SH, we are looking at data and trajectories and encouraged. 5 years from now SH will still be my IB MS and the gains from LT and Watkins and JO will be feeding into that MS.

What's you plan? [/quote]

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