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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Huh? The Hill elementary schools that are majority in-boundary, UMC and white have taken 10 or 15 years to become that way. Nobody has argued otherwise on this thread. The problem with Watkins is that it never changes, never gets on track to become a real neighborhood school.  OP may not mind, but should know this. [/quote]

Actually, Watkins has been changing. When I bought IB for the Cluster 10 years ago, its was 20% IB. Now it is 37% IB, which is HUGE considering that it doesn't include PK3, PK4, or K. [/quote]

Don't agree that the change in the Cluster is huge.  You sound mired in relativism.

10 years ago, Maury was around 20% in-boundary. Now it's roughly 70%.  Brent was around 25%.  Now it's over 80%.
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Also, the thing to keep in mind with the Cluster is that 15 years ago, it was the farthest along Hill school. Up and down progress over time, but never just steady gains. Also, some of the change is the last few years is because they finally stopped just dumping in a bunch of new, by definition OOB kids, in 1st because Watkins was structured around having much bigger classes than the IB could support. That trend is finally changing from my understanding.[/quote]

I've heard the claim "the trend is finally changing" at Watkins too many times to count in the last 15 years.  So glad we sold our in-boundary Cluster house a decade back and bought one in the Brent District.   If it's not one problem at Watkins (school too big),[b] it's another (principal sucks, quits or fired, equally problematic head takes over).[/b] [/quote]

Is the new principal problematic? How would you know if you are not at the school?[/quote]

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