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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Seems short sighted on the part of the Murch and Janney parents.  All it would take is another 100 IB kids and Hearst would be then envy of the city.  Small classes and brand new facilities.[/quote]

It's extremely short sighted.  Hearst's population is similar to Eaton and Stoddert--solidly middle/upper middle class across all races.  Score wise, Hearst should be on par with these schools, but in the last five years went through an expansion from an early childhood center to a PK-5 and simultaneously suffered through multiple principal changes.  The consistent rise in test scores is evidence that the dust is finally settling. If the DCCAS were continuing, the school was on track to hit Reward status next year. It's clear that Hearst is going to follow the same pattern as Eaton and Stoddert, whether it is majority IB or not.  It's a good little school.  Always has been.  It just had to work through some growing pains.

Bottom line: In two years, I doubt if even the Murch and Janney families will be anti-Hearst.[/quote]

Since Hearst is much smaller and doesn't have the facilities for the older kids, it seems to me that it's best use is as an early childhood center. Why not just make it a PK School for Janney, Murch, Lafayette, Eaton, etc,....  thus freeing up space for K-on through the rest of the grades. Nobody loses their true neighborhood school later, and since PK is optional anyways (many of us don't even get a spot at our inbound school), it's not like somebody gets short changed.

Now maybe this idea is completely stupid, but I just wish the DME spent more time at looking at creative boundary changes/maps in their propsoals vs. turning the city into a lottery system. They only floated 1 option for the specific school boundaries. Their really should have been a couple more on the table once they decided that we were still having an in-bound system with the set asides.[/quote]

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