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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Stuff it, I've lived on the Hill since the 1990s.  I was even enough of a sucker to attend a couple of the BS parent input meetings DCPS set up during the 2013-2014 boundary and feeder review.  The other parents I attended with all pushed for a pan-Ward 6 middle school, possibly spread between two campuses.  We were ignored.  DCPS could been pragmatic enough to change the feeder arrangement for Hill middle schools but didn't bother.  That's all there is to it. Now most UMC public school parents EotP flee to MS charters like Latin Cooper East, an arrangement that leaves a great deal to be desired.  Our near neighbors in the upscale VA and MD burbs (MoCo, Arlington, Fairfax) either don't bother with charters, or barely do, because most parents are OK with their in-boundary schools at every level.  That's the ideal, not a school system where almost half the students attend charters, including start-ups like Latin Cooper in crappy temp buildings.[/quote]

Rhee set us on the path to Latin Cooper by elevating feeder enrollment to the same level of preference as in-boundary status for by-right middle school attendance. It's that simple. If in-boundary status had remained the top preference, as in the pre-Rhee era, Stuart Hobson, and possibly Jefferson Academy and Eliot-Hine, would have attracted far more in-boundary families by now. Without prioritizing OOB attendance, DCPS would have come under heavy political pressure to cater to in-boundary families in the way they ran their by-right middle schools EotP. The reason DCPS Ward 6 middle schools don't need to offer designated honors classes for academic subjects in a heavily UMC swathe of the city is because Rhee pushed OOB enrollment. Hill parents of little kids don't tend to know that there are still more Ward 5, 7 and 8 students enrolled at Stuart Hobson than Ward 6.[/quote]

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