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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Or closing E-H down and reopening it as a Hill-only school?  Remodeling is beside the point - Eastern has done that on a grand scale without attracting white families.  As things stand, E-H will surely remain one of the Anacostia transplant schools, just one with more students.  How will that benefit those of us paying property tax on expensive Hill homes?  [/quote]

Why would DCPS ever want to do that?  Out of boundary students are the only thing that kept Ludlow-Taylor and Elliot open over the past decade.  Now that you've spent a large sum of money on a CH townhouse, DCPS should kick those families out?  In boundary parents already have first dibs on their neightborhood schools and if they wanted could certainly become a significant population at the school.

I would be more sympathetic to in boundary complaints if they focused on the level of the schools academic offerings, or the academic readiness of their cohort.  But arguing that kids from the other side of the river should attend is ridiculous.[/quote]

You mean that arguing that kids from the other side of the river should NOT attend?  No, not ridiculous, it's life in the city.  For example, the other day several squad cars were parked in front of SH late in the day.  When I asked a kid coming out of the school what was going on, he shrugged and said "Oh, just some 8th grade boys from Anacostia fighting with knives.  It's happened before."  Hill families deserve schools they are comfortable with for their hefty property tax payments, so compromise should be the order of the day.  DCPS wouldn't want to do this of course, far more convenient for the city to grab our tax dollars to provide education mainly for other people's children.

With Hill schools for Hill kids you, could, for example, bus Ward 7 and 8 kids who scored "advanced" on the 5th grade DC-CAS over with minimal controversy.  Call it heresy, but I dearly wish that LT and E-H had in fact closed a decade ago.  Then we wouldn't be spreading the middle-class cohort so thin around the Hill, leading to far more IB parents feeling comfortable keeping kids in the upper ES grades and MS.  [b]There's a fairness issue with local taxpayers paying to educate other mobs of people's children (particulary those who reside in MD) when they want and deserve schools serving their own well.  Phase the OOB kids out, don't let them in anymore, do whatever it takes to enable the middle-class families who live here, love the neighborhood and pay the bulk of the property tax (having poured their life savings into homes) to stay in the city and enjoy the hard-earned fruits of their labors.[/b]  And I say this having worked as a Dem staffer for a dyed-in-the-wool liberal.

[/quote]Not that I don't understand the frustration that I believe causes you to say this, but using your logic, all the OOB kids should also be kicked out of Deal and Hardy. [/quote]

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