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[quote=Anonymous]The Cluster is essentially a "neighborhood charter," set up something like a charter before charters existed.  So SH is neither here nor there in the way it's adminstered at a time of great change.  Cluster parents tend to be painfully territorial and defensive about what goes on at SH, although the MS isn't serving the Hill community very well (big percentage of kids still bused in from elsewhere).  I'd like to see SH go DCPS OR charter, leaving a limbo land where one bruising battle after another is fought over its future, without great results.   If the school has so much potential, frankly, why is the student body only 15 percent white in a district that's more than half white, after more than two decades in the Cluster?  The majority of Hill parents with MS age kids is not sold on the place - you don't see nearly the same enthusiasm for SH as you see for Deal, Latin, even untested Basis.  SH would be fertile ground for a co-located DCPS academic magnet, much more so than Jefferson.  Doesn't sound like neighborhood proximity for charters would help struggling SH.  [/quote]

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