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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We need a single consolidated middle school on the Hill. There are many families who want to stay on the Hill. That would also help improve the feeder patterns into Eastern High.[/quote]

This.  It's so stupid that this hasn't happened yet. [/quote]

It's not that easy to do it. There are three current schools, and the boundary covers a wide geographic area. If it were just two schools, maybe you could make one 5-6 and one 7-8 but then what do you do with the third? Jefferson is furthest away, but it's performing pretty well (better than Eliot-Hine, certainly) and has stable leadership so why would you mess that up. Do you make one for 6th, one for 7th, and one for 8th? Then everyone's traveling all around and nobody's with siblings and it's harder to do sports and stuff. Do you convert one of them to an elementary school, but which? Do you make one of them a magnet of some sort? Maybe take 6-8 out of CHML and make Eliot-Hine a city-wide Montessori, then do 5-6 at SH and 7-8 at Jefferson? Or extend SWS to 8th grade and have its middle school campus at EH? Convert one of them to an citywide arts magnet (still have admission by lottery though--focus on behavior and desire to learn arts, not pre-existing talent or training) and let the Ellington folks run it to help kids get what they need to apply to DESA?[/quote]

Why not have SWS, Watkins, Maury and Brent all feed into SH for example?[/quote]

Because that would crowd out JO Wilson and Ludlow-Taylor, and they would not tolerate that.[/quote]

I assume they meant in addition to L-T and JOW (which are already zoned to SH), because otherwise you're just moving people around... and how does that solve any problem? Not least of all because L-T is like 3 blocks from SH (SH is in L-T's IB), so how could you possibly zone it elsewhere? I personally don't think you need to have SWS feed anywhere if you eliminate the lottery rights to future schools system, since no one is IB for SWS. [/quote]

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