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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why not set up a comprehensive middle school on Capitol Hill spread out on two campuses? 6th grade at Stuart-Hobson and 7th and 8th grade at Elliott-Hine. Feeders would be JO Wilson, LT, Watkins, Brent, Maury, Tyler, SWS, Payne, Miner, Van Ness, and Amidon-Bowen. There could be a Spanish immersion track to support students from Tyler Bilingual as well as Hill families from LAMB and Mundo Verde looking for a neighborhood school for the MS years. Turn Jefferson into a test-in STEM MS. [/quote]
Great question for Henderson, Grosso and Allen.[/quote]
This idea has been presented to city leaders and considered in various forms many many times.  The leaders expressed a desire to standardize the entire system.  Move fifth grade from Hobson into Watkins; dismantle the parts of the Cluster with SWS and Montessori being set up as stand alone; eliminate education campuses and set up regular ES/MS schools, etc.

With regard to Jefferson being a test in program, DCPS has a test in STEM program, and it is underutilized and not that strong.  Also, what would you do with the kids from Southwest attending Jefferson in this new scenario?  Have them drive another mile past Hobson to Eliot Hine (2 miles away versus half a mile for Jefferson) in order to cater to Hill families that are unwilling to enroll their kids in DCPS middle schools?

As Charles Allen says, we need everyone to pull in the same direction.  The only way that happens is for (most of) Ward 6 to have one middle school - bonding everyone together and creating mutually shared goals plus economies of scale and critical mass of advanced students.  How exactly to get there is the task at hand.[/quote]

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