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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just an observation: There seems to be a divide on perspectives here, and elsewhere. There were clearly many, many battles fought over the "Cluster Schools". Those families that were involved are understandably entrenched and their perspectives are informed greatly by that. But for those of us who are only now entering ECE, we don't share that perspective. I don't think of SWS as anything other than a boundary-less DCPS school.  And Peabody and Watkins are just one elementary school that happens to be in two buildings. Stuart Hobson isn't a "Cluster School" to me; it is the MS into which several ES (including Watkins) feed. [b]It's interesting to me that Peabody/Watkins parents and posters with older kids lay claim to SH as if it was part of that school, instead of what it is now, a feeder school from area elementary schools. [/b]

Not a judgment. Not a shot at anyone. Just an observation. [/quote]

It may be best for you not to spout when you aren't on top of the facts. Until a few years ago, only P/W fed to SH. Through the end of this year, P/W and SH share a Principal, share the PTA and LSAT, and essentially share a budget allocation from DCPS, because of the fungibility of the budgets across campuses. There is a lot more to SH being part of the Cluster than the feeder aspect. For over 20 years, nearing 30, the objective was to treat this as one Pk4-8th grade school, not simply as a feeder. It doesn't always align that way, but the model and objective differs substantially from a feeder model.[/quote]

I don't know the exact history of the Cluster, but I bought my house IB for LT in 2002 and it has been IB for SH since I bought it. I checked what the feed was when we were looking and it was LT, SH, Dunbar at that point. With the redistributing ,only the Dunbar feed changed to Eastern. I believe JO Wilson has also always fed into SH, but I don't have first-hand knowledge of that. It's not really relavent to this thread, but I wanted to correct this misstatement by the PP. [/quote]

This isn't true.  Your HOUSE may have been inbounds for SH, but Ludlow Taylor nor JO Wilson were officially feeders ( i.e. all students there had rights to SH regardless of home address )until around 2010ish.[/quote]

Assuming you are correct and that we look past the cute little distinction that somehow someone who was IB for LT and JO had a right to SH, but somehow it was the address and not the school that fed into SH (a ridiculous bit of hair splitting designed, I guess, to allow P/W to lay claim to SH), that ended 5 years ago according to even your presentation of the facts. 5 hears is a lifetime in DCPS terms.  So tell me again how the cluster is as relevant to those of us in ECE?

Signed,
Someone who is enjoying watching you prove my point with every post you make. [/quote]

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