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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've toured Eliot-Hine to take a look, in part, because the Cluster leadership and DCPS seemingly have done everything within their power to make sure my family will never attend Stuart-Hobson, which is within walking distance of our home.  Sorry, but not at all impressed.  Same with Jefferson.  Too much focus on remediation for students who arrive unprepared for academic rigor and no track record of supporting higher achieving students.  Ward 6 middle schools may talk a good game but test scores tell a different story.[/quote]

Even if the academics were better at these middle schools, I wouldn't be OK with the peer group.  We lived around the corner from Hobson and until recently.  Over the years in NE, I grew weary of listening to students shout foul language from sidewalks and the playground, and of watching kids trip, push and thump one another while screaming or scarfing down junk food.  We watched police race up to the school in squad cars too many times, charging in to break up a playground fight, make a drugs related arrest outside or whatever.  Hobson is supposed to be the high-SES friendly school in the triumvirate.  Sorry, but not impressed like the pp above.

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+1 Current SH neighbor here, and I think that the Cluster really hurt itself when they instituted uniforms there, because it is now obvious what school the students attend. I have even called Clemons about specific groups of troublemakers, I know all the suburban folks will say that's how all preteens behave, but I have a hard time seeing my 13 yo DC marching in the middle of the street, screaming obscenities and littering. This is not normal kids horseplay, it's antisocial.[/quote]

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