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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^^I am not sock puppeting,just continuing.

Seriously. Somebody name ONE downside of a centralized middle school for ward 6 feeders.  If you look at the boundary maps, it would cover a SMALLER area than Alice Deal currently covers now. [/quote]

Because right now SH is majority proficient (and >10% above proficient) in both reading and math, while Jefferson is majority-proficient in math, but not reading, and E-H is majority basic or below (and <5% above proficient) in both categories. Also SH is nearly 10% white, while Jefferson and EH are both 0% white.

There's a critical mass of SH kids who are either above proficient or white or both. Most of those kids' parents do not want to combine the schools and see their kids dumped into a much larger setting (from 423 to 957), where they would no longer be a critical mass.

From their point of view, SH is working. They fear that if you combined the schools, instead of SH helping improve EH and Jefferson, EH & Jefferson would destroy what's working in SH.[/quote]

Are you one of these parents who thinks SH is working?  Or are you just guessing?  If its true, those parents who, at the same time, complain about budgeting and space constraints at SH and tell the rest of the Hill that they need "to consider the community as a whole " in their choices need to simply shove it.[/quote]

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