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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm neighbors with 2 rising first graders from Peabody, and both families have told me that almost the entire class is going to Watkins. A few more classes like that and Watkins will be a different place.[/quote]

I'm the parent of a rising First Grader from Peabody who will be going to Watkins.  I currently only know of two kids (from a total of four classes) in the entire school NOT going to Watkins.  I'm sure there are more than a handful, but, honestly, I just don't know of more than two, and I've been asking....(and I presently haven't heard of anybody going to MV, though maybe my kid's in another circle.)

As for SES status, if it's any indicator, I've been to A LOT of birthdays that cost over $500.  And The school's starting to look  like a mini-Boden catalog.

There's also a visible demographic shift between my K child's class and my Pk3 child's.  (The PK3 class is diverse, but my impression--based on no hard-data, but impressions from fellow parents--is that it's more uniformlyl higher SES.)
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This simply cannot be. I read DCUM and the people who have lived on the Hill for years tell me that the cluster school forever ruined Watkins (and probably Michelle Rhee too, although I'm not clear on that entirely).

But seriously, that makes sense intellectually. More kids on the Hill and more critical mass. If that's true and it holds then SH could be a great MS option in the next few years if LT and JO continue to get traction. [/quote]

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