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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not the PP you responded to here.

I'd agree with you if Brent, Maury and SWS were feeding into SH.  Fact is, the two or three strongest, most upper middle class, most white, and most in-boundary Hill DCPS elementary schools don't lead to SH.  This means that SH will limp along fed by comparatively weaker JO Wilson, Ludlow Taylor and Watkins for a good decade.  Yes, many SWS parents live in-boundary for SH, which will help the school pick up, but not a lot and not rapidly.

[b]Wish things were different[/b]. Calling PPs who've been around long enough to have a good feel for what I just described can't advance your magical thinking about Hobson.

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Not OPP - Long time resident here and I don't think you really do.  There's a strain of commentators here that seems to live for dumping on the evil "Cluster".

I get a different vibe.  Yes there are public school parents who are either pro-charter or aren't ideologically opposed to charters and will pursue that option, but I talk to others who will not consider any charter school on principle.  There's also a scarcity of decent MS charter options for the non-ideological who would consider either charters or DCPS.  Even for our advanced student BASIS is a bridge too far, probably as much as SH is to some PPs above.

There are plenty of white parents who don't judge schools based on some acceptable level of whiteness, even those with kids currently enrolled in overly white schools.  It's actually a weakness in the Hill ES landscape.  DCPS is 20% Hispanic in 2017 and there are Hill schools with virtually no Latino (or ELL) students despite having the only two citywide enrollment ES options in DCPS.  All of the Hill schools would benefit from greater real diversity and not just whiting out from lower ES grades upward.[/quote]

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