Anonymous wrote:PP, how much admiration do you have for rich black families that choose not to send their kids to their in-bounds school. On a scale from one to ten.

Huh? NP. How does race have anything to do with it? Bizarre.

PP, how much admiration do you have for rich black families that choose not to send their kids to their in-bounds school. On a scale from one to ten.

Well that's your opinion. I for one, admire people who have other choices and take the more difficult one because it may benefit others in the long term. And before you jump down my throat, it IS beneficial for high ses families to send their kids to failing schools.

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Anonymous wrote:Thank you for your post PP. I am not a Maury parent (didn't get my kid in ps3!), but it is our inbound school. My lovely block has kids going to Stuart Hobson, Eliot-Hine, Latin, SWW, Basis, DCI, Maret, WIS, Capitol Day, and many more. We all respect and admire those sending their kids to Stuart or E-H. There are definitely pluses and minuses for every school mentioned above. No need to assume we all need to move or pray for a charter.

What is there to respect or admire in a parent sending their kids to Stuart of E-H? Every parent tries to find the best fit for their kid. The parents sending their kids to Stuart or E-H think those schools are the best for their kids. To "respect and admire" them sounds patronizing.

Not the PP, but maybe she means that the parents of kids at SH or EH are really involved in making those schools better and that's what she respects and admires? I kind of feel the same way about the families who send kids to SH (I don't know anyone who has kids at EH) perhaps because I simply don't have the energy or the inclination for doing it myself. I have an 8th grader, and frankly by the time he got to 5th grade and could go to a "good" charter for middle school and high school, I sent him and haven't looked back. There is fundraising and the need for some parental involvement at his new school, but it's not exhausting in the way that working to improve his Capitol Hill elementary was. I admire the stamina of parents who are still so devoted to improving their local school after working at it for 6 or 7 years. I'm done.

You do realize that there are HUNDREDS of parents who "send"their kids to Stuart Hobson and Eliot-Hine from ALL OVER the city. The fact that the few from Capitol Hill do so are respected and admired above and beyond the others is what comes off as patronizing and shallow.

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Anonymous wrote:Thank you for your post PP. I am not a Maury parent (didn't get my kid in ps3!), but it is our inbound school. My lovely block has kids going to Stuart Hobson, Eliot-Hine, Latin, SWW, Basis, DCI, Maret, WIS, Capitol Day, and many more. We all respect and admire those sending their kids to Stuart or E-H. There are definitely pluses and minuses for every school mentioned above. No need to assume we all need to move or pray for a charter.

What is there to respect or admire in a parent sending their kids to Stuart of E-H? Every parent tries to find the best fit for their kid. The parents sending their kids to Stuart or E-H think those schools are the best for their kids. To "respect and admire" them sounds patronizing.

Not the PP, but maybe she means that the parents of kids at SH or EH are really involved in making those schools better and that's what she respects and admires? I kind of feel the same way about the families who send kids to SH (I don't know anyone who has kids at EH) perhaps because I simply don't have the energy or the inclination for doing it myself. I have an 8th grader, and frankly by the time he got to 5th grade and could go to a "good" charter for middle school and high school, I sent him and haven't looked back. There is fundraising and the need for some parental involvement at his new school, but it's not exhausting in the way that working to improve his Capitol Hill elementary was. I admire the stamina of parents who are still so devoted to improving their local school after working at it for 6 or 7 years. I'm done.

I'm the PP you're talking about. This is exactly what I meant. Thank you.

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Anonymous wrote:Thank you for your post PP. I am not a Maury parent (didn't get my kid in ps3!), but it is our inbound school. My lovely block has kids going to Stuart Hobson, Eliot-Hine, Latin, SWW, Basis, DCI, Maret, WIS, Capitol Day, and many more. We all respect and admire those sending their kids to Stuart or E-H. There are definitely pluses and minuses for every school mentioned above. No need to assume we all need to move or pray for a charter.

What is there to respect or admire in a parent sending their kids to Stuart of E-H? Every parent tries to find the best fit for their kid. The parents sending their kids to Stuart or E-H think those schools are the best for their kids. To "respect and admire" them sounds patronizing.

Not the PP, but maybe she means that the parents of kids at SH or EH are really involved in making those schools better and that's what she respects and admires? I kind of feel the same way about the families who send kids to SH (I don't know anyone who has kids at EH) perhaps because I simply don't have the energy or the inclination for doing it myself. I have an 8th grader, and frankly by the time he got to 5th grade and could go to a "good" charter for middle school and high school, I sent him and haven't looked back. There is fundraising and the need for some parental involvement at his new school, but it's not exhausting in the way that working to improve his Capitol Hill elementary was. I admire the stamina of parents who are still so devoted to improving their local school after working at it for 6 or 7 years. I'm done.

Which elementary?

I love his paternity test shows.

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Anonymous wrote:Thank you for your post PP. I am not a Maury parent (didn't get my kid in ps3!), but it is our inbound school. My lovely block has kids going to Stuart Hobson, Eliot-Hine, Latin, SWW, Basis, DCI, Maret, WIS, Capitol Day, and many more. We all respect and admire those sending their kids to Stuart or E-H. There are definitely pluses and minuses for every school mentioned above. No need to assume we all need to move or pray for a charter.

What is there to respect or admire in a parent sending their kids to Stuart of E-H? Every parent tries to find the best fit for their kid. The parents sending their kids to Stuart or E-H think those schools are the best for their kids. To "respect and admire" them sounds patronizing.

Not the PP, but maybe she means that the parents of kids at SH or EH are really involved in making those schools better and that's what she respects and admires? I kind of feel the same way about the families who send kids to SH (I don't know anyone who has kids at EH) perhaps because I simply don't have the energy or the inclination for doing it myself. I have an 8th grader, and frankly by the time he got to 5th grade and could go to a "good" charter for middle school and high school, I sent him and haven't looked back. There is fundraising and the need for some parental involvement at his new school, but it's not exhausting in the way that working to improve his Capitol Hill elementary was. I admire the stamina of parents who are still so devoted to improving their local school after working at it for 6 or 7 years. I'm done.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow PP. Not a Maury parent, but your attitude is alarming. I do live in th neighborhood and know of some committed parents who are sending their children to Eliot-Hine. It takes people like that to change a school, and I'm impressed at their tenacity.

As far as your comment about "getting the popcorn", it is neither cute nor original.

Committed parents or parents without decent options? Eliot-Hine's PARCC scores were the worst on this side of the river, in the single digits for proficiency. Total disaster.

+1. A few parents drawing on their reserves of tenacity is not a remedy and will not change a school. Then there's Eastern. What's the point?

This sounds like the poster who bashes the Cluster schools all the time. I wonder what her problem is?

Anonymous wrote:Thank you for your post PP. I am not a Maury parent (didn't get my kid in ps3!), but it is our inbound school. My lovely block has kids going to Stuart Hobson, Eliot-Hine, Latin, SWW, Basis, DCI, Maret, WIS, Capitol Day, and many more. We all respect and admire those sending their kids to Stuart or E-H. There are definitely pluses and minuses for every school mentioned above. No need to assume we all need to move or pray for a charter.

What is there to respect or admire in a parent sending their kids to Stuart of E-H? Every parent tries to find the best fit for their kid. The parents sending their kids to Stuart or E-H think those schools are the best for their kids. To "respect and admire" them sounds patronizing.

Thank you for your post PP. I am not a Maury parent (didn't get my kid in ps3!), but it is our inbound school. My lovely block has kids going to Stuart Hobson, Eliot-Hine, Latin, SWW, Basis, DCI, Maret, WIS, Capitol Day, and many more. We all respect and admire those sending their kids to Stuart or E-H. There are definitely pluses and minuses for every school mentioned above. No need to assume we all need to move or pray for a charter.

While middle school considerations are notoriously thrown into the mix ("are you stupid or what?"), I would give them infinitely less weight than finding a great elementary school for my child. That well-rounded and well-educated child PP mentioned (and many others like him/her) built a foundation at Maury to be successful in all of DC's middle schools, public, private, charter. There are so many options (and I'm sure more to come by the time OP needs to make choices about it) that it's really not the plight others make it out to be. It's just not.

I'm not sure where the vitriol is from about parents making Eliot-Hine work for them and their children. I can't help but wonder what those people have to lose over that prospect. Is their fear of recognizing that their own way isn't the only way driving it, that there could be paths into selective high schools, colleges, and fulfilling careers that don't involve spending long daily commutes, thousands in tuition, hours bent over one's child's homework, and hyperventilating over placements. Is that it? I don't get it.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow PP. Not a Maury parent, but your attitude is alarming. I do live in th neighborhood and know of some committed parents who are sending their children to Eliot-Hine. It takes people like that to change a school, and I'm impressed at their tenacity.

As far as your comment about "getting the popcorn", it is neither cute nor original.

Committed parents or parents without decent options? Eliot-Hine's PARCC scores were the worst on this side of the river, in the single digits for proficiency. Total disaster.

+1. A few parents drawing on their reserves of tenacity is not a remedy and will not change a school. Then there's Eastern. What's the point?

I never understand posts like this. What do you want to see happen? Is it for everyone to move WOTP/the burbs or pray for a handful of charter spots?

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Anonymous wrote:Wow PP. Not a Maury parent, but your attitude is alarming. I do live in th neighborhood and know of some committed parents who are sending their children to Eliot-Hine. It takes people like that to change a school, and I'm impressed at their tenacity.

As far as your comment about "getting the popcorn", it is neither cute nor original.

Committed parents or parents without decent options? Eliot-Hine's PARCC scores were the worst on this side of the river, in the single digits for proficiency. Total disaster.

+1. A few parents drawing on their reserves of tenacity is not a remedy and will not change a school. Then there's Eastern. What's the point?

Anonymous wrote:Wow PP. Not a Maury parent, but your attitude is alarming. I do live in th neighborhood and know of some committed parents who are sending their children to Eliot-Hine. It takes people like that to change a school, and I'm impressed at their tenacity.

As far as your comment about "getting the popcorn", it is neither cute nor original.

Committed parents or parents without decent options? Eliot-Hine's PARCC scores were the worst on this side of the river, in the single digits for proficiency. Total disaster.