Anonymous
Post 04/21/2024 14:48     Subject: Middle school dilemma: Eliot-Hine/Stuart Hobson/Jefferson
These discussions are the worst.

Latin is impossible to get into. BASIS isn’t for everyone, which anyone who goes there (and some who don’t) will be happy to tell you.

So what is everyone else supposed to do? Breaking news, there are fights and low performing kids in the suburbs too. So unless you can drop $50k a year, you are going to have to deal with some level of nonsense.

My kids have gone through some of these schools. One sailed through, one has had challenges. I also think they would have had challenges anywhere they went.

So these places aren’t perfect, they can also work for some. Like most places…

All this extra hate is unnecessary.
Anonymous
Post 04/21/2024 13:00     Subject: Middle school dilemma: Eliot-Hine/Stuart Hobson/Jefferson
Until at least a few Asians with Asian parents start enrolling at SH, EH and JA we’re not touching them either. -POC Mom on the Hill. PS. You stop.
Anonymous
Post 04/21/2024 11:09     Subject: Re:Middle school dilemma: Eliot-Hine/Stuart Hobson/Jefferson
It’s interesting that the anti-boosters hardly ever seem to disclose which middle school their kids go to.

Folks, please let us know so that those of us who have no firsthand knowledge of your kid’s school can tell you what’s wrong with it.

Anonymous
Post 04/21/2024 11:04     Subject: Middle school dilemma: Eliot-Hine/Stuart Hobson/Jefferson
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Disagree. When these parents wax enthusiastic, ask yourself why the Asian families aren’t touching the Ward 6 middle schools when they are at the feeder elementary schools, albeit in snall numbers. If these were great middle schools, some Asians would enroll, period.


oh ffs. please stop. there are tiny numbers of Asian families on the Hill and in DCPS to begin with, so by your logic, nobody should enroll in any DCPS school at all and we must all move to Fairfax.

as a “booster” I have been totally transparent about my experiences, here and in person. my goal is really to just let people know my actual, honest experience of having a happy kid at a Hill MS. obviously I know it’s not the same as being enrolled in AAP. but I assume people are not idiots and know that was never the assumption.

so I’ll say it again for those in the back: if you are AAP or bust, then go live your dream. meanwhile I have a happy, learning kid at our Hill MS.


There are other options besides Hill middle schools or moving to Fairfax.


Of course there are. But when you approach that middle ground that is affordable for regular families and not selective like AAP, those schools in fact start to look not all that different from Hill MS and in fact our Hill MS looks better in some respects (eg none of the reports of fighting/drugs/etc as at some of the “good” MS discussed here.)
Anonymous
Post 04/21/2024 10:39     Subject: Middle school dilemma: Eliot-Hine/Stuart Hobson/Jefferson
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Parents who enroll aren't telling the whole truth about EH, SH and Jefferson. These schools aren't half as wonderful as claimed on this thread and others. You make the best of one of these schools if the kid doesn't have a better option (generally shut out of the Latins and BASIS or hated BASIS and left). That's it.


+1 the boosters are pretty transparently trying to get more UMC kids to choose these schools, sometimes to the point of lying to people, which wouldn't be necessary if it was as amazing as they claim.


They don’t need to lie? You just need to take responsibility for yourself and your decisions.


+1. I’m not sure why everyone on DCUM is so insecure. Make your choice and own it.
Anonymous
Post 04/21/2024 10:37     Subject: Middle school dilemma: Eliot-Hine/Stuart Hobson/Jefferson
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Parents who enroll aren't telling the whole truth about EH, SH and Jefferson. These schools aren't half as wonderful as claimed on this thread and others. You make the best of one of these schools if the kid doesn't have a better option (generally shut out of the Latins and BASIS or hated BASIS and left). That's it.


+1 the boosters are pretty transparently trying to get more UMC kids to choose these schools, sometimes to the point of lying to people, which wouldn't be necessary if it was as amazing as they claim.


They don’t need to lie? You just need to take responsibility for yourself and your decisions.
Anonymous
Post 04/21/2024 10:32     Subject: Middle school dilemma: Eliot-Hine/Stuart Hobson/Jefferson
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Disagree. When these parents wax enthusiastic, ask yourself why the Asian families aren’t touching the Ward 6 middle schools when they are at the feeder elementary schools, albeit in snall numbers. If these were great middle schools, some Asians would enroll, period.


oh ffs. please stop. there are tiny numbers of Asian families on the Hill and in DCPS to begin with, so by your logic, nobody should enroll in any DCPS school at all and we must all move to Fairfax.

as a “booster” I have been totally transparent about my experiences, here and in person. my goal is really to just let people know my actual, honest experience of having a happy kid at a Hill MS. obviously I know it’s not the same as being enrolled in AAP. but I assume people are not idiots and know that was never the assumption.

so I’ll say it again for those in the back: if you are AAP or bust, then go live your dream. meanwhile I have a happy, learning kid at our Hill MS.


There are other options besides Hill middle schools or moving to Fairfax.
Anonymous
Post 04/21/2024 10:02     Subject: Middle school dilemma: Eliot-Hine/Stuart Hobson/Jefferson
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Parents who enroll aren't telling the whole truth about EH, SH and Jefferson. These schools aren't half as wonderful as claimed on this thread and others. You make the best of one of these schools if the kid doesn't have a better option (generally shut out of the Latins and BASIS or hated BASIS and left). That's it.


+1 the boosters are pretty transparently trying to get more UMC kids to choose these schools, sometimes to the point of lying to people, which wouldn't be necessary if it was as amazing as they claim.


Not sure why this circular conversation can't be put to rest. There are families at the schools who are happy there. There are families that chose other places for various reasons. There are families at these middle schools who aren't happy there. But coming in from the outside and making generalizations does not really help the conversation at all, especially when people specifically wanted to learn information about the various schools.


I can only assume at this point that the “anti-boosters” are extremely insecure and bitter about their own choices and are talking to themselves.
Anonymous
Post 04/21/2024 10:01     Subject: Middle school dilemma: Eliot-Hine/Stuart Hobson/Jefferson
Anonymous wrote:Disagree. When these parents wax enthusiastic, ask yourself why the Asian families aren’t touching the Ward 6 middle schools when they are at the feeder elementary schools, albeit in snall numbers. If these were great middle schools, some Asians would enroll, period.


oh ffs. please stop. there are tiny numbers of Asian families on the Hill and in DCPS to begin with, so by your logic, nobody should enroll in any DCPS school at all and we must all move to Fairfax.

as a “booster” I have been totally transparent about my experiences, here and in person. my goal is really to just let people know my actual, honest experience of having a happy kid at a Hill MS. obviously I know it’s not the same as being enrolled in AAP. but I assume people are not idiots and know that was never the assumption.

so I’ll say it again for those in the back: if you are AAP or bust, then go live your dream. meanwhile I have a happy, learning kid at our Hill MS.
Anonymous
Post 04/21/2024 09:22     Subject: Middle school dilemma: Eliot-Hine/Stuart Hobson/Jefferson
Disagree. When these parents wax enthusiastic, ask yourself why the Asian families aren’t touching the Ward 6 middle schools when they are at the feeder elementary schools, albeit in snall numbers. If these were great middle schools, some Asians would enroll, period.
Anonymous
Post 04/21/2024 08:50     Subject: Middle school dilemma: Eliot-Hine/Stuart Hobson/Jefferson
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Parents who enroll aren't telling the whole truth about EH, SH and Jefferson. These schools aren't half as wonderful as claimed on this thread and others. You make the best of one of these schools if the kid doesn't have a better option (generally shut out of the Latins and BASIS or hated BASIS and left). That's it.


+1 the boosters are pretty transparently trying to get more UMC kids to choose these schools, sometimes to the point of lying to people, which wouldn't be necessary if it was as amazing as they claim.


Not sure why this circular conversation can't be put to rest. There are families at the schools who are happy there. There are families that chose other places for various reasons. There are families at these middle schools who aren't happy there. But coming in from the outside and making generalizations does not really help the conversation at all, especially when people specifically wanted to learn information about the various schools.
Anonymous
Post 04/21/2024 08:32     Subject: Middle school dilemma: Eliot-Hine/Stuart Hobson/Jefferson
Anonymous wrote:Parents who enroll aren't telling the whole truth about EH, SH and Jefferson. These schools aren't half as wonderful as claimed on this thread and others. You make the best of one of these schools if the kid doesn't have a better option (generally shut out of the Latins and BASIS or hated BASIS and left). That's it.


+1 the boosters are pretty transparently trying to get more UMC kids to choose these schools, sometimes to the point of lying to people, which wouldn't be necessary if it was as amazing as they claim.
Anonymous
Post 04/21/2024 06:55     Subject: Middle school dilemma: Eliot-Hine/Stuart Hobson/Jefferson
Anonymous wrote:Parents who enroll aren't telling the whole truth about EH, SH and Jefferson. These schools aren't half as wonderful as claimed on this thread and others. You make the best of one of these schools if the kid doesn't have a better option (generally shut out of the Latins and BASIS or hated BASIS and left). That's it.


where is your child in MS?
Anonymous
Post 04/21/2024 06:08     Subject: Middle school dilemma: Eliot-Hine/Stuart Hobson/Jefferson
Parents who enroll aren't telling the whole truth about EH, SH and Jefferson. These schools aren't half as wonderful as claimed on this thread and others. You make the best of one of these schools if the kid doesn't have a better option (generally shut out of the Latins and BASIS or hated BASIS and left). That's it.
Anonymous
Post 04/20/2024 05:41     Subject: Middle school dilemma: Eliot-Hine/Stuart Hobson/Jefferson
We're IB for SH and could have gone with Jefferson Academy from Brent. We rejected both school for our eldest, mainly because we couldn't picture our somewhat lazy but bright kid putting out in classes where many kids work behind grade level (science, social studies). Kid generally needs a push to put nose to the grindstone. Also, kid has some concentration issues and both campuses seemed too loud/rowdy/chaotic for them to concentrate consistently. We lost confidence in DCPS in the upper grades at Brent, where academics weren't too serious. We're paying for a parochial middle school in NW but would return to DCPS is we crack Walls.