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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well, people on the Hill and in Georgetown had better rethink their lack of support for their neighborhood schools or plan to go private. Deal is nearly closed to OOB and it's becoming harder and harder to enroll at Latin.

I guess BASIS will pick up those who are willing to be the first year class and are attracted to a very academic curriculum.

It seems to me that we would easily have two more thriving middle schools in SH and Hardy if only the IB parents would commit to public education in their own neighborhoods. But, alas, that ain't the case.[/quote]

What about the city making a commitment to local taxpayers by providing them with neighborhood middle and high schools with which most are comfortable?  I live next to SH and it's not unusual for the police arrive to break up a playground fight, or even arrest a parent (I saw that happen 10 minutes ago).  Cluster parents don't like to talk about these problems.  The school looks much like a prison and doesn't offer nearly enough tracking for most neighborhood parents, in an increasingly affluent area, to have confidence that their own children would be challenged there.  Easy to blame parents for a school system's failure to attract them.  I don't hear Takoma Park parents complaining much - their school demographics mirror neighborhood demographics.  Why should parents have to do the heavy lifting to turn schools around for the next generation of parents and kids?  All the city would need to do is co-locate a Basis type academic magnet program at SH and neighborhood families would head there in droves, but no.  That wouldn't be "equitable," never mind who's paying the bulk of the property tax locally....

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