Anonymous wrote:I'm curious what the average IB Tyler family thinks about being reassigned from EH to Jefferson, and, no, I'm talker referencing high-SES families who have found refuge in the SI ECE program for a couple of years because they were shut out of Brent, Peabody or Maury..

The kids who live in Potomac Gardens and are IB for Tyler live even further from Jefferson than than the Brent kids. I'd bet transportation to Jefferson is going to be tough for them.

To be fair, I have seen or heard no cross-Capitol Hill schools advocacy group agitating for these changes in the ward 6 middle school plan.

Where is CHPSPO on this. I suppose they are happy with the complete failure to capture families that their non-plan plan resulted in. They would rather blame charters for offering superior programs and families for choosing them than to critically re think this mess.

We need an alternative group to make these arguments to the DME pronto

Let's be honest. Jefferson's location would be better as a charter. There just aren't enough children south of the freeway to fill it. Amidon and the newly proposed school by Yards could feed to wherever Thompson goes (how you like them apples, people who think Brent is next door to Jefferson or EH?).

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Anonymous wrote:Isn't boundary realignment by definition rearranging the deck chairs? Is there another plan for Ward 6 that the majority of residents would all agree too that would improve the schools?

Here you go -- Brent, SWS, JO Wilson and LT feed to SH. Maury, Payne, Tyler and Watkins feed to EH. Make the boundary line for MS be 11th Street. SH goes back to its museum magnet program, with a focus on arts and music. EH continues IB and works to become a sports powerhouse. Then, like the magic of peanut butter and chocolate, these two MS magically come together at Eastern.

Where would Amidon feed into? What would happen with Jefferson?

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I'm curious what the average IB Tyler family thinks about being reassigned from EH to Jefferson, and, no, I'm talker referencing high-SES families who have found refuge in the SI ECE program for a couple of years because they were shut out of Brent, Peabody or Maury..

Anonymous wrote:Isn't boundary realignment by definition rearranging the deck chairs? Is there another plan for Ward 6 that the majority of residents would all agree too that would improve the schools?

Here you go -- Brent, SWS, JO Wilson and LT feed to SH. Maury, Payne, Tyler and Watkins feed to EH. Make the boundary line for MS be 11th Street. SH goes back to its museum magnet program, with a focus on arts and music. EH continues IB and works to become a sports powerhouse. Then, like the magic of peanut butter and chocolate, these two MS magically come together at Eastern.

Doubling down on the cluster and Ward 7/8 refugees does not a plan make.

Isn't boundary realignment by definition rearranging the deck chairs? Is there another plan for Ward 6 that the majority of residents would all agree too that would improve the schools?

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Anonymous wrote:The aforementioned MS plan, not the other one, has accomplished the filling of Latin and BASIS with Ward 6 students.

+1. DCPS is deluded enough to think grade alignment will solve this. It won't. It's the quality of schools, none of which gain community buy in because few neighborhood residents are satisfied with the quality

And nary a word from the DME in terms of a proposal to do something to improve the quality of the educational experience for the majority of students. I guess it's much easier to rearrange a few deck chairs, declare it a victory, and them move to a well-paying job as an EDReform consultant.

Anonymous wrote:The aforementioned MS plan, not the other one, has accomplished the filling of Latin and BASIS with Ward 6 students.

Touché.

Anonymous wrote:The aforementioned MS plan, not the other one, has accomplished the filling of Latin and BASIS with Ward 6 students.

+1. DCPS is deluded enough to think grade alignment will solve this. It won't. It's the quality of schools, none of which gain community buy in because few neighborhood residents are satisfied with the quality

A middle school located two miles from my residence will never be my "neighborhood school," particularly if the vast majority of my neighbors pursue other, more superior options, and my 6th Grader would effectively be forced to take the Metro, as opposed to walking for more than 30 minutes along Independence Avenue.

The aforementioned MS plan, not the other one, has accomplished the filling of Latin and BASIS with Ward 6 students.

Blind adherence to the "Plan" -- the Ward 6 Middle School Plan, not the other one -- should come as no surprise given that the DME spearheaded DCPS recalcitrance in terms of finding a workable option beyond adding a EH feed to the mix for Brent. So what has the Plan accomplished oversll for Ward 6? Nada.