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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My two cents -- and I'm a in-bounds Cluster parent with a kid who went to SWS -- is that SWS will move from the fabulous, high-SES community school it is today to a much less desirable city-wide program in relatively short order. [b]SWS should continue to have some sort of neighborhood preference.[/b] [/quote]

I'd like to second that. And what I actually care more about is that it will feed into Eliot-Hine because that makes complete sense - not kidding, in all seriousness. EH feeders are all already on this track. Miner has Reggio Emilia. Similarly, Maury relies heavily on experiential and some project-based learning, and Payne has a world-cultures/project-based approach (I don't know enough about Tyler). All these  mesh very well with the International Baccalaureate emerging at Eliot-Hine. That makes complete sense to me. (I can't speak to what that means or should mean for LT.)[/quote]

very different programs, and not sure I see a thread.  SWS will be 1st DC elementary school with a Reggio influenced curriculum through 5th.  Even the original Reggio has only recently expanded beyond EC to elementary school. You'd be hard pressed to find SWS families who values the Reggio approach who would opt for Takoma, LT or Miner, even at EC level.  Maury is a good program, but it's also 
apples to oranges.

The current feeder patterns are largely irrelevant because they are undergoing comprehensive review in the spring and will eventually result in new school boundaries and feeders.  SWS also has 3 years until the MS feeder matters.  Given the current MS options on the Hill, that places SWS families in the same boat as Brent, Maury, and Tyler SI.  The current Hill neighborhood public MS options on the Hill represent abject failure.  Most Hill families know this.    DCPS knows this and wants to make changes to counter widespread defection to charters.  If not, there are always charters/private/move.[/quote]

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