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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The suggestion of having Brent and Maury feed into SH was put forth at a meeting I attended with Brent parents about five years ago.  The Brent parents at that time rejected that idea outright, as they wanted DCPS to get Jefferson's Academy going for them to feed into.  I don't know any "Clusters crazies" who would not be thrilled to have SH be a destination school for Brent and Maury.

Regarding OOB numbers, while SH may have a lot of OOB, they are from a lot of families within the next boundary over.  But there are pockets of high OOB numbers at the most popular middle schools, Hardy being probably the most with OOB, and their renovation cost $45 million.

If you also look at the numbers for renovation dollars, Eliot-Hine is scheduled to get a significant reno in 2013-2014 ($38m, I think).  All of the money is already in the budget and committed to all of these schools, so it's not that one school will get money and the others get that amount subtracted.  And if that were to happen, why wouldn't we all rise up against that being allowed anyway?  Why can Ward 2/3 get many hundreds of millions to renovate two middle schools and a high school, while Ward 6 has to fight and scrape to renovate our two middles into schools that the 1000+ students in the upcoming middle school bubble on the hill could fill?  The population numbers are such that we could support all of these schools, just like in NW.

I like the idea that SH could be a Hardy model, smaller middle school, EH can become the larger Deal type model and both schools feed Eastern to make it the Wilson of Ward 6-a comprehensive, strong high school with lots of course offerings and tons of extracurriculars. But with all this bickering and pitting people against each other and people suggesting that SH just be combined with EH, I fear that may never happen...[/quote]

This poster has it slightly wrong.  Brent parents did not reject a Stuart Hobson feed at any time in favor of Jefferson. We were pushing to become a k to 8 model, or else to become a "seed" for a middle school program that would eventually become the backbone of Eliot Hine or Jefferson. ( ala what is happening with SWS right now ).   When it became clear that neither of these would happen, we petitioned to be able to feed into Stuart Hobson and were unequivocally told NO SPACE. NO WAY. by Michelle Rhee herself and were told we needed to stay with the Jefferson feeder pattern.  Most parents thought this was a terrible idea, but one or two parents ( who live near Jefferson ) wanted to roll over and give it a try.  Rest of the parents secured an optional feed to Eliot Hine as insurance for future growth there in the face of lack of confidence that anything could happen at Jefferson.  Bottom line: most Brent parents would love to feed into Stuart Hobson but we have one or two.vocal parents alienating people left and right and making this very difficult.  I hope at some point Ward 6 can get it together with DCPS to think of some creative ways to make this all work.[/quote]

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