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Brent parent here.  No one from Brent has been focused on Eliot-Hine and [b]none will ever do so [/b]IMHO.  In any event, the DME just took away the Brent "feed" to Eliot-Hine, as if this actually means anything when the school is significantly underenrolled and NO IB student has ever found a reason to attend.  I can't see anyone from our cohort attending Jefferson either.  We are continuing to assess options, including moving IB for Deal or Montgomery County after 4th Grade as Latin has become nearly impossible to get into and the Basis model may not be a good fit for our DC.  We might have given Stuart-Hobson a shot but DCPS and the DME [b]have no interest [/b]in finding a way to push that school to the next level by ensuring that it becomes a true neighborhood school.  Truly disappointing.[/quote]

So sorry that you're in this situation, which is terribly unfair.  Yes, exactly, none in-boundary will ever do so, and no interest from DCPS.  Their leadership only seems to care if Hardy becomes high-performing in the next 5-10 years.  Meanwhile, DCM, Henderson, Mayor Gray and co. are glad to throw Brent, Tyler, Maury and even the new Van Ness under the bus.  Obtuse, wrong, punishing and profoundly short-sighted.   I don't see a way out for most high SES Hill families.  BASIS surely won't be taking all comers by the start of school indefinitely - there are too many high SES Maury families whose kids are approaching 5th grade, and others in Brookland, Petworth, Columbia Heights etc. without a viable MS.  Charles Allen's rhetoric on the subject doesn't inspire, and he probably won't be able to do a darn thing to change the dead-ended feeders before the next boundary revision (in 2020-2022?) anyway.

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