Anonymous
Post 11/02/2017 10:23     Subject: Re:Stuart Hobson Middle School?
Anonymous wrote:Not the PP you're unhappy with, but lighten up.

If you get rejected everywhere and can't afford private, you move to VA or MoCo. Half a dozen families from our IB DCPS on the Hill did that last year.

Maybe jail comes later. White-collar crime.


not PP but your comment is grossly offensive. There is a real problem with the school to prison pipeline and PP has every right to call BS where it deserves to be called out. These are 11-14 year old children and it's not funny convey criminality, largely based on skin color, however flippant your last line is.

Just ick
Anonymous
Post 11/01/2017 10:31     Subject: Re:Stuart Hobson Middle School?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Dozens of upper middle class families of all colors send their children to Stuart Hobson, and those children go on to myriad high schools and do very well in life. So yes, it's an option worth a closer look if you live on the Hill. But, the OOB availability will only get tougher as more neighborhood families (and those in feeder elementary schools - Watkins, LT, JO Wilson) choose the school. As an LT parent, I see more affluent kids in the upper grades, even transfers from other Hill schools, because parents want the option of Stuart Hobson. Of course they may end up elsewhere, but this is a good sign for SH in the coming 2-3 years.


Interesting. I know of a few families that live within 3 blocks of the school and chose to send dc across the city to another middle school rather than let dc walk 5 mins to SH.


Based on the recent numbers, I think the rising Hill MS families over the next 2 to 5 years are going to have much different choices than the current MS families. Latin is already really hard to get into and Basis is getting harder. Yes, some will move or go private but the next few years should be interesting.
Anonymous
Post 11/01/2017 10:12     Subject: Re:Stuart Hobson Middle School?
Anonymous wrote:Dozens of upper middle class families of all colors send their children to Stuart Hobson, and those children go on to myriad high schools and do very well in life. So yes, it's an option worth a closer look if you live on the Hill. But, the OOB availability will only get tougher as more neighborhood families (and those in feeder elementary schools - Watkins, LT, JO Wilson) choose the school. As an LT parent, I see more affluent kids in the upper grades, even transfers from other Hill schools, because parents want the option of Stuart Hobson. Of course they may end up elsewhere, but this is a good sign for SH in the coming 2-3 years.


Interesting. I know of a few families that live within 3 blocks of the school and chose to send dc across the city to another middle school rather than let dc walk 5 mins to SH.
Anonymous
Post 11/01/2017 10:07     Subject: Re:Stuart Hobson Middle School?
Dozens of upper middle class families of all colors send their children to Stuart Hobson, and those children go on to myriad high schools and do very well in life. So yes, it's an option worth a closer look if you live on the Hill. But, the OOB availability will only get tougher as more neighborhood families (and those in feeder elementary schools - Watkins, LT, JO Wilson) choose the school. As an LT parent, I see more affluent kids in the upper grades, even transfers from other Hill schools, because parents want the option of Stuart Hobson. Of course they may end up elsewhere, but this is a good sign for SH in the coming 2-3 years.
Anonymous
Post 11/01/2017 08:26     Subject: Re:Stuart Hobson Middle School?
Not the PP you're unhappy with, but lighten up.

If you get rejected everywhere and can't afford private, you move to VA or MoCo. Half a dozen families from our IB DCPS on the Hill did that last year.

Maybe jail comes later. White-collar crime.
Anonymous
Post 10/31/2017 19:31     Subject: Stuart Hobson Middle School?
Anonymous wrote:Doesn't everyone on the Hill go Latin, Basis, DCI, or private?!

If you get rejected everywhere, isn't there at least Hardy or jail?


I try to let these comments go and move on but I want to point out that these are children that you are talking about. I go to a school on The Hill every day and work my ass off to teach these kids and then I come here and see a joke about children going to jail. Shame on you. You are a terrible person.
Anonymous
Post 10/31/2017 15:48     Subject: Stuart Hobson Middle School?
Doesn't everyone on the Hill go Latin, Basis, DCI, or private?!

If you get rejected everywhere, isn't there at least Hardy or jail?
Anonymous
Post 10/31/2017 11:38     Subject: Stuart Hobson Middle School?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I would be interested in hearing from current and former Stuart Hobson parents. What is it like and is there room for OOB students to lottery in?


For 2017-18 they only made 1 seat each available in 6th, 7th and 8th.

But by Oct they had made calls to 47 people on the WL for 6th.

https://public.tableau.com/profile/aaron2446#!/vizhome/MSDCSeatsandWaitlistOfferData/MSDCPublicDisplay


While your recitation of facts is accurate, I question what exactly anyone can take from those facts. Did they call 47 people to fill one open slot? Three open slots? 20?


The message one can take is that this waitlist moves, but it doesn't move much until September. 3 years of data says the same thing.


I wonder if this is because they're waiting to see what IB kids appear on their door in August/September.


Yep. Like Godot.
Anonymous
Post 10/31/2017 11:27     Subject: Stuart Hobson Middle School?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I would be interested in hearing from current and former Stuart Hobson parents. What is it like and is there room for OOB students to lottery in?


For 2017-18 they only made 1 seat each available in 6th, 7th and 8th.

But by Oct they had made calls to 47 people on the WL for 6th.

https://public.tableau.com/profile/aaron2446#!/vizhome/MSDCSeatsandWaitlistOfferData/MSDCPublicDisplay


While your recitation of facts is accurate, I question what exactly anyone can take from those facts. Did they call 47 people to fill one open slot? Three open slots? 20?


The message one can take is that this waitlist moves, but it doesn't move much until September. 3 years of data says the same thing.


I wonder if this is because they're waiting to see what IB kids appear on their door in August/September.
Anonymous
Post 10/31/2017 10:53     Subject: Stuart Hobson Middle School?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I would be interested in hearing from current and former Stuart Hobson parents. What is it like and is there room for OOB students to lottery in?


For 2017-18 they only made 1 seat each available in 6th, 7th and 8th.

But by Oct they had made calls to 47 people on the WL for 6th.

https://public.tableau.com/profile/aaron2446#!/vizhome/MSDCSeatsandWaitlistOfferData/MSDCPublicDisplay


While your recitation of facts is accurate, I question what exactly anyone can take from those facts. Did they call 47 people to fill one open slot? Three open slots? 20?


The message one can take is that this waitlist moves, but it doesn't move much until September. 3 years of data says the same thing.
Anonymous
Post 10/31/2017 10:47     Subject: Stuart Hobson Middle School?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I would be interested in hearing from current and former Stuart Hobson parents. What is it like and is there room for OOB students to lottery in?


For 2017-18 they only made 1 seat each available in 6th, 7th and 8th.

But by Oct they had made calls to 47 people on the WL for 6th.

https://public.tableau.com/profile/aaron2446#!/vizhome/MSDCSeatsandWaitlistOfferData/MSDCPublicDisplay


While your recitation of facts is accurate, I question what exactly anyone can take from those facts. Did they call 47 people to fill one open slot? Three open slots? 20?
Anonymous
Post 10/31/2017 08:50     Subject: Stuart Hobson Middle School?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:I would be interested in hearing from current and former Stuart Hobson parents. What is it like and is there room for OOB students to lottery in?


For 2017-18 they only made 1 seat each available in 6th, 7th and 8th.

But by Oct they had made calls to 47 people on the WL for 6th.

https://public.tableau.com/profile/aaron2446#!/vizhome/MSDCSeatsandWaitlistOfferData/MSDCPublicDisplay


Thank you!
Anonymous
Post 10/30/2017 21:17     Subject: Re:Stuart Hobson Middle School?
We lotteried twice for SH from OOB. Got in easily a couple of years ago but not more recently. When we saw we weren't going to get in by the time school starts, we withdrew, wouldn't have wanted to switch after the start of school. We're now at a different Hill middle school we ranked lower but turned out very well.
Anonymous
Post 10/30/2017 18:43     Subject: Stuart Hobson Middle School?
Anonymous wrote:I would be interested in hearing from current and former Stuart Hobson parents. What is it like and is there room for OOB students to lottery in?


For 2017-18 they only made 1 seat each available in 6th, 7th and 8th.

But by Oct they had made calls to 47 people on the WL for 6th.

https://public.tableau.com/profile/aaron2446#!/vizhome/MSDCSeatsandWaitlistOfferData/MSDCPublicDisplay
Anonymous
Post 10/30/2017 17:59     Subject: Stuart Hobson Middle School?
I would be interested in hearing from current and former Stuart Hobson parents. What is it like and is there room for OOB students to lottery in?