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Anonymous wrote:We’ve lived in Ward 6 for 30 years and have 2 teenagers, so we know a whole bunch of families with kids at Latin, BASIS, Walls, DCI and various privates for HS. We also know a bunch of families who bailed on DCPS at DCPCS for the burbs along the way, seemingly without regret. The best suburban public schools are obviously much better than anything we have in DC. What’s also clear is that Latin doesn’t offer the same rigor for the highest achievers as Walls, BASIS and arguably, DCI. None of these DC public schools offer a combo of excellent ECs and academics. You can protest all you want and point to data and pathways without changing any of it. If you can swing a private or a move to the burbs, you go.

Looking at Latin's college acceptances so far this year announced on Instagram, and I'm seeing Yale, Stanford, MIT, Princeton, Stanford, Cornell, Michigan, Tufts... There's only 90 or so seniors at Latin so it's substantially smaller than SWW, less than half the size of DCI and is a small fraction of the size of those behemoth high schools in the burbs.

Take what's announced on Instagram with a grain of salt. Often it's a handful of seniors getting into multiple top schools. What you can't look at is the crazy expensive and exhausting supplementing the UMC families have invariably done to achieve these results. We know some of these families. It's not uncommon for Latin families to fork out 10K or more a year to bump up the education ("cheaper than Sidwell!"). Easy to pretend that Latin did it all but not realistic or honest.

I don't understand the bolded. Probably because it makes no sense and is just sour grapes. Elite private schools and wealthy public high schools are all systemically built-in supplementation.

What if I told you there was a charter school in DC with 69 graduates, all of whom are going to college and these were some of the schools they were attending. Would 20%+ attending elite schools convince you that the school and its curriculum and reputation were doing at least some of the work?

University of Chicago (2)
Cornell University
Harvard University
Princeton University
University of Pennsylvania
Yale University
Duke University
Johns Hopkins University
Carnegie Mellon University
University of California, Berkeley
University of Michigan
University of Virginia (2)

This looks like BASIS DC this year.

Over 26% of the senior class matriculating to T25 schools…quite impressive!

All I see over and over are fantastic acceptances from charter schools. I’m so happy for those kids. Why can’t dcps do better?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We’ve lived in Ward 6 for 30 years and have 2 teenagers, so we know a whole bunch of families with kids at Latin, BASIS, Walls, DCI and various privates for HS. We also know a bunch of families who bailed on DCPS at DCPCS for the burbs along the way, seemingly without regret. The best suburban public schools are obviously much better than anything we have in DC. What’s also clear is that Latin doesn’t offer the same rigor for the highest achievers as Walls, BASIS and arguably, DCI. None of these DC public schools offer a combo of excellent ECs and academics. You can protest all you want and point to data and pathways without changing any of it. If you can swing a private or a move to the burbs, you go.

Looking at Latin's college acceptances so far this year announced on Instagram, and I'm seeing Yale, Stanford, MIT, Princeton, Stanford, Cornell, Michigan, Tufts... There's only 90 or so seniors at Latin so it's substantially smaller than SWW, less than half the size of DCI and is a small fraction of the size of those behemoth high schools in the burbs.

Take what's announced on Instagram with a grain of salt. Often it's a handful of seniors getting into multiple top schools. What you can't look at is the crazy expensive and exhausting supplementing the UMC families have invariably done to achieve these results. We know some of these families. It's not uncommon for Latin families to fork out 10K or more a year to bump up the education ("cheaper than Sidwell!"). Easy to pretend that Latin did it all but not realistic or honest.

I don't understand the bolded. Probably because it makes no sense and is just sour grapes. Elite private schools and wealthy public high schools are all systemically built-in supplementation.

What if I told you there was a charter school in DC with 69 graduates, all of whom are going to college and these were some of the schools they were attending. Would 20%+ attending elite schools convince you that the school and its curriculum and reputation were doing at least some of the work?

University of Chicago (2)
Cornell University
Harvard University
Princeton University
University of Pennsylvania
Yale University
Duke University
Johns Hopkins University
Carnegie Mellon University
University of California, Berkeley
University of Michigan
University of Virginia (2)

This looks like BASIS DC this year.

Over 26% of the senior class matriculating to T25 schools…quite impressive!

All I see over and over are fantastic acceptances from charter schools. I’m so happy for those kids. Why can’t dcps do better?

DCPS is also sending kids to all these schools.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We’ve lived in Ward 6 for 30 years and have 2 teenagers, so we know a whole bunch of families with kids at Latin, BASIS, Walls, DCI and various privates for HS. We also know a bunch of families who bailed on DCPS at DCPCS for the burbs along the way, seemingly without regret. The best suburban public schools are obviously much better than anything we have in DC. What’s also clear is that Latin doesn’t offer the same rigor for the highest achievers as Walls, BASIS and arguably, DCI. None of these DC public schools offer a combo of excellent ECs and academics. You can protest all you want and point to data and pathways without changing any of it. If you can swing a private or a move to the burbs, you go.

As someone who grew up in DC public schools and as a normal, functioning adult, I can’t believe how absolutely spoiled some people are, and passing that entitlement down to their kids. I can’t imagine moving just so my kid can go to a high school with “better EC’s”… or whatever. My kids have been happy in DCPS, if there are things that aren’t perfect (god forbid not enough EC’s to choose from, for example), they adapt and move on. No complaints. I am just glad that we made our kids aware from a young age what real problems actually are- an Ebola outbreak in Congo, civil wars in Sudan, horrific poverty, genocide, starvation, in places like Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen. Not to mention, the kids who live in DC and don’t have any choices with schools and don’t have meals to eat every day. As long as some of you can segregate from these kids, it’ll all be ok, right?

My main point to the people who can’t just pick up and move or pay for private, your kid will be fine in DCPS. Deep breaths. There are much bigger things to worry about- especially with the way things are going in the world right now.

Where are your kids in HS?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We’ve lived in Ward 6 for 30 years and have 2 teenagers, so we know a whole bunch of families with kids at Latin, BASIS, Walls, DCI and various privates for HS. We also know a bunch of families who bailed on DCPS at DCPCS for the burbs along the way, seemingly without regret. The best suburban public schools are obviously much better than anything we have in DC. What’s also clear is that Latin doesn’t offer the same rigor for the highest achievers as Walls, BASIS and arguably, DCI. None of these DC public schools offer a combo of excellent ECs and academics. You can protest all you want and point to data and pathways without changing any of it. If you can swing a private or a move to the burbs, you go.

As someone who grew up in DC public schools and as a normal, functioning adult, I can’t believe how absolutely spoiled some people are, and passing that entitlement down to their kids. I can’t imagine moving just so my kid can go to a high school with “better EC’s”… or whatever. My kids have been happy in DCPS, if there are things that aren’t perfect (god forbid not enough EC’s to choose from, for example), they adapt and move on. No complaints. I am just glad that we made our kids aware from a young age what real problems actually are- an Ebola outbreak in Congo, civil wars in Sudan, horrific poverty, genocide, starvation, in places like Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen. Not to mention, the kids who live in DC and don’t have any choices with schools and don’t have meals to eat every day. As long as some of you can segregate from these kids, it’ll all be ok, right?

My main point to the people who can’t just pick up and move or pay for private, your kid will be fine in DCPS. Deep breaths. There are much bigger things to worry about- especially with the way things are going in the world right now.

This comment is wearing UMBC gear as we speak

I lol’d (even though I think UMBC is a fine school)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We’ve lived in Ward 6 for 30 years and have 2 teenagers, so we know a whole bunch of families with kids at Latin, BASIS, Walls, DCI and various privates for HS. We also know a bunch of families who bailed on DCPS at DCPCS for the burbs along the way, seemingly without regret. The best suburban public schools are obviously much better than anything we have in DC. What’s also clear is that Latin doesn’t offer the same rigor for the highest achievers as Walls, BASIS and arguably, DCI. None of these DC public schools offer a combo of excellent ECs and academics. You can protest all you want and point to data and pathways without changing any of it. If you can swing a private or a move to the burbs, you go.

As someone who grew up in DC public schools and as a normal, functioning adult, I can’t believe how absolutely spoiled some people are, and passing that entitlement down to their kids. I can’t imagine moving just so my kid can go to a high school with “better EC’s”… or whatever. My kids have been happy in DCPS, if there are things that aren’t perfect (god forbid not enough EC’s to choose from, for example), they adapt and move on. No complaints. I am just glad that we made our kids aware from a young age what real problems actually are- an Ebola outbreak in Congo, civil wars in Sudan, horrific poverty, genocide, starvation, in places like Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen. Not to mention, the kids who live in DC and don’t have any choices with schools and don’t have meals to eat every day. As long as some of you can segregate from these kids, it’ll all be ok, right?

My main point to the people who can’t just pick up and move or pay for private, your kid will be fine in DCPS. Deep breaths. There are much bigger things to worry about- especially with the way things are going in the world right now.

This comment is wearing UMBC gear as we speak

I lol’d (even though I think UMBC is a fine school)

I don’t get the joke. Can someone explain it?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We’ve lived in Ward 6 for 30 years and have 2 teenagers, so we know a whole bunch of families with kids at Latin, BASIS, Walls, DCI and various privates for HS. We also know a bunch of families who bailed on DCPS at DCPCS for the burbs along the way, seemingly without regret. The best suburban public schools are obviously much better than anything we have in DC. What’s also clear is that Latin doesn’t offer the same rigor for the highest achievers as Walls, BASIS and arguably, DCI. None of these DC public schools offer a combo of excellent ECs and academics. You can protest all you want and point to data and pathways without changing any of it. If you can swing a private or a move to the burbs, you go.

As someone who grew up in DC public schools and as a normal, functioning adult, I can’t believe how absolutely spoiled some people are, and passing that entitlement down to their kids. I can’t imagine moving just so my kid can go to a high school with “better EC’s”… or whatever. My kids have been happy in DCPS, if there are things that aren’t perfect (god forbid not enough EC’s to choose from, for example), they adapt and move on. No complaints. I am just glad that we made our kids aware from a young age what real problems actually are- an Ebola outbreak in Congo, civil wars in Sudan, horrific poverty, genocide, starvation, in places like Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen. Not to mention, the kids who live in DC and don’t have any choices with schools and don’t have meals to eat every day. As long as some of you can segregate from these kids, it’ll all be ok, right?

My main point to the people who can’t just pick up and move or pay for private, your kid will be fine in DCPS. Deep breaths. There are much bigger things to worry about- especially with the way things are going in the world right now.

This comment is wearing UMBC gear as we speak

I lol’d (even though I think UMBC is a fine school)

I don’t get the joke. Can someone explain it?

Iykyk

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We’ve lived in Ward 6 for 30 years and have 2 teenagers, so we know a whole bunch of families with kids at Latin, BASIS, Walls, DCI and various privates for HS. We also know a bunch of families who bailed on DCPS at DCPCS for the burbs along the way, seemingly without regret. The best suburban public schools are obviously much better than anything we have in DC. What’s also clear is that Latin doesn’t offer the same rigor for the highest achievers as Walls, BASIS and arguably, DCI. None of these DC public schools offer a combo of excellent ECs and academics. You can protest all you want and point to data and pathways without changing any of it. If you can swing a private or a move to the burbs, you go.

Looking at Latin's college acceptances so far this year announced on Instagram, and I'm seeing Yale, Stanford, MIT, Princeton, Stanford, Cornell, Michigan, Tufts... There's only 90 or so seniors at Latin so it's substantially smaller than SWW, less than half the size of DCI and is a small fraction of the size of those behemoth high schools in the burbs.

Take what's announced on Instagram with a grain of salt. Often it's a handful of seniors getting into multiple top schools. What you can't look at is the crazy expensive and exhausting supplementing the UMC families have invariably done to achieve these results. We know some of these families. It's not uncommon for Latin families to fork out 10K or more a year to bump up the education ("cheaper than Sidwell!"). Easy to pretend that Latin did it all but not realistic or honest.

I don't understand the bolded. Probably because it makes no sense and is just sour grapes. Elite private schools and wealthy public high schools are all systemically built-in supplementation.

What if I told you there was a charter school in DC with 69 graduates, all of whom are going to college and these were some of the schools they were attending. Would 20%+ attending elite schools convince you that the school and its curriculum and reputation were doing at least some of the work?

University of Chicago (2)
Cornell University
Harvard University
Princeton University
University of Pennsylvania
Yale University
Duke University
Johns Hopkins University
Carnegie Mellon University
University of California, Berkeley
University of Michigan
University of Virginia (2)

This misses a few including some top SLACS. Also:

Columbia
Vanderbilt
UNC-CH
Amherst
Wellesley
Barnard (2)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We’ve lived in Ward 6 for 30 years and have 2 teenagers, so we know a whole bunch of families with kids at Latin, BASIS, Walls, DCI and various privates for HS. We also know a bunch of families who bailed on DCPS at DCPCS for the burbs along the way, seemingly without regret. The best suburban public schools are obviously much better than anything we have in DC. What’s also clear is that Latin doesn’t offer the same rigor for the highest achievers as Walls, BASIS and arguably, DCI. None of these DC public schools offer a combo of excellent ECs and academics. You can protest all you want and point to data and pathways without changing any of it. If you can swing a private or a move to the burbs, you go.

Looking at Latin's college acceptances so far this year announced on Instagram, and I'm seeing Yale, Stanford, MIT, Princeton, Stanford, Cornell, Michigan, Tufts... There's only 90 or so seniors at Latin so it's substantially smaller than SWW, less than half the size of DCI and is a small fraction of the size of those behemoth high schools in the burbs.

Take what's announced on Instagram with a grain of salt. Often it's a handful of seniors getting into multiple top schools. What you can't look at is the crazy expensive and exhausting supplementing the UMC families have invariably done to achieve these results. We know some of these families. It's not uncommon for Latin families to fork out 10K or more a year to bump up the education ("cheaper than Sidwell!"). Easy to pretend that Latin did it all but not realistic or honest.

I don't understand the bolded. Probably because it makes no sense and is just sour grapes. Elite private schools and wealthy public high schools are all systemically built-in supplementation.

What if I told you there was a charter school in DC with 69 graduates, all of whom are going to college and these were some of the schools they were attending. Would 20%+ attending elite schools convince you that the school and its curriculum and reputation were doing at least some of the work?

University of Chicago (2)
Cornell University
Harvard University
Princeton University
University of Pennsylvania
Yale University
Duke University
Johns Hopkins University
Carnegie Mellon University
University of California, Berkeley
University of Michigan
University of Virginia (2)

This looks like BASIS DC this year.

Over 26% of the senior class matriculating to T25 schools…quite impressive!

All I see over and over are fantastic acceptances from charter schools. I’m so happy for those kids. Why can’t dcps do better?

I think JR, MacArthur, Walls, and Banneker also have great college placements, and McKinley has some very good ones. It's just the EOTP DCPS neighborhood high schools that don't.

[Anonymous]

The BASIS DC matriculations (the lists above) were impressive considering that the class only has 69 students. But I agree that there are a number of great public high school options for students in DC, including BASIS, DCI, Latin, and application schools.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We’ve lived in Ward 6 for 30 years and have 2 teenagers, so we know a whole bunch of families with kids at Latin, BASIS, Walls, DCI and various privates for HS. We also know a bunch of families who bailed on DCPS at DCPCS for the burbs along the way, seemingly without regret. The best suburban public schools are obviously much better than anything we have in DC. What’s also clear is that Latin doesn’t offer the same rigor for the highest achievers as Walls, BASIS and arguably, DCI. None of these DC public schools offer a combo of excellent ECs and academics. You can protest all you want and point to data and pathways without changing any of it. If you can swing a private or a move to the burbs, you go.

Looking at Latin's college acceptances so far this year announced on Instagram, and I'm seeing Yale, Stanford, MIT, Princeton, Stanford, Cornell, Michigan, Tufts... There's only 90 or so seniors at Latin so it's substantially smaller than SWW, less than half the size of DCI and is a small fraction of the size of those behemoth high schools in the burbs.

Take what's announced on Instagram with a grain of salt. Often it's a handful of seniors getting into multiple top schools. What you can't look at is the crazy expensive and exhausting supplementing the UMC families have invariably done to achieve these results. We know some of these families. It's not uncommon for Latin families to fork out 10K or more a year to bump up the education ("cheaper than Sidwell!"). Easy to pretend that Latin did it all but not realistic or honest.

Don't you ever get tired of posting this nonsense? Everyday is some weird (and not even plausible!) lie about Latin and some ridiculous DCI boosterism. You seem very insecure about your child being at DCI.

I thought this was the basis poster. Either way, it’s insufferable.

Both are very insecure.

I am so confused. How did you manage to make this about BASIS? The person minimizing the Latin Insta page was clearly taking a shot at all Insta pages for all charters.

The insufferable behavior is people like you trying to make every square peg fit into a BASIS hole. You have BASIS issues. Let it go!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The BASIS DC matriculations (the lists above) were impressive considering that the class only has 69 students. But I agree that there are a number of great public high school options for students in DC, including BASIS, DCI, Latin, and application schools.

I am the person who posted the matriculation list. I certainly agree. I posted that list in response to the person seeking to minimize the impressive Latin social media posts. I posted the BASIS list because that's the one I had. There was nothing explicit or implicit in my post taking shots at any other school. My point was that (1) it is wrong to claim lists of great schools are just one or two kids getting into all of them and (2) the taking issue with the attempt to minimize the kids' successes as products of supplementation.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The BASIS DC matriculations (the lists above) were impressive considering that the class only has 69 students. But I agree that there are a number of great public high school options for students in DC, including BASIS, DCI, Latin, and application schools.

I am the person who posted the matriculation list. I certainly agree. I posted that list in response to the person seeking to minimize the impressive Latin social media posts. I posted the BASIS list because that's the one I had. There was nothing explicit or implicit in my post taking shots at any other school. My point was that (1) it is wrong to claim lists of great schools are just one or two kids getting into all of them and (2) the taking issue with the attempt to minimize the kids' successes as products of supplementation.

yeah this makes zero sense. they're different kids. you can tell because (and here's the tip-off) they have different names and different faces. no one is turning over their instagram decision page to the glory of one or two kids and all the varying schools they got into.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:The BASIS DC matriculations (the lists above) were impressive considering that the class only has 69 students. But I agree that there are a number of great public high school options for students in DC, including BASIS, DCI, Latin, and application schools.

I am the person who posted the matriculation list. I certainly agree. I posted that list in response to the person seeking to minimize the impressive Latin social media posts. I posted the BASIS list because that's the one I had. There was nothing explicit or implicit in my post taking shots at any other school. My point was that (1) it is wrong to claim lists of great schools are just one or two kids getting into all of them and (2) the taking issue with the attempt to minimize the kids' successes as products of supplementation.

yeah this makes zero sense. they're different kids. you can tell because (and here's the tip-off) they have different names and different faces. no one is turning over their instagram decision page to the glory of one or two kids and all the varying schools they got into.

pp here. i misread what you wrote and responded too hastily. sounds like we agree. apologies.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We’ve lived in Ward 6 for 30 years and have 2 teenagers, so we know a whole bunch of families with kids at Latin, BASIS, Walls, DCI and various privates for HS. We also know a bunch of families who bailed on DCPS at DCPCS for the burbs along the way, seemingly without regret. The best suburban public schools are obviously much better than anything we have in DC. What’s also clear is that Latin doesn’t offer the same rigor for the highest achievers as Walls, BASIS and arguably, DCI. None of these DC public schools offer a combo of excellent ECs and academics. You can protest all you want and point to data and pathways without changing any of it. If you can swing a private or a move to the burbs, you go.

As someone who grew up in DC public schools and as a normal, functioning adult, I can’t believe how absolutely spoiled some people are, and passing that entitlement down to their kids. I can’t imagine moving just so my kid can go to a high school with “better EC’s”… or whatever. My kids have been happy in DCPS, if there are things that aren’t perfect (god forbid not enough EC’s to choose from, for example), they adapt and move on. No complaints. I am just glad that we made our kids aware from a young age what real problems actually are- an Ebola outbreak in Congo, civil wars in Sudan, horrific poverty, genocide, starvation, in places like Palestine, Lebanon, Yemen. Not to mention, the kids who live in DC and don’t have any choices with schools and don’t have meals to eat every day. As long as some of you can segregate from these kids, it’ll all be ok, right?

My main point to the people who can’t just pick up and move or pay for private, your kid will be fine in DCPS. Deep breaths. There are much bigger things to worry about- especially with the way things are going in the world right now.

This comment is wearing UMBC gear as we speak

I lol’d (even though I think UMBC is a fine school)

I don’t get the joke. Can someone explain it?

University of Maryland Baltimore county acceptance rate around 73% with a middle SAT score of 1240 and 3.3 GPA. It is not a very selective school so it is the type to be attractive to a student who would be fine with a dcps high school. Basically the parents attitude is dcps high schools are absolutely fine and it’s very likely they’ll be absolutely fine with a UMBC acceptance instead of the more prestigious U of Maryland at College Park.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We’ve lived in Ward 6 for 30 years and have 2 teenagers, so we know a whole bunch of families with kids at Latin, BASIS, Walls, DCI and various privates for HS. We also know a bunch of families who bailed on DCPS at DCPCS for the burbs along the way, seemingly without regret. The best suburban public schools are obviously much better than anything we have in DC. What’s also clear is that Latin doesn’t offer the same rigor for the highest achievers as Walls, BASIS and arguably, DCI. None of these DC public schools offer a combo of excellent ECs and academics. You can protest all you want and point to data and pathways without changing any of it. If you can swing a private or a move to the burbs, you go.

Looking at Latin's college acceptances so far this year announced on Instagram, and I'm seeing Yale, Stanford, MIT, Princeton, Stanford, Cornell, Michigan, Tufts... There's only 90 or so seniors at Latin so it's substantially smaller than SWW, less than half the size of DCI and is a small fraction of the size of those behemoth high schools in the burbs.

Take what's announced on Instagram with a grain of salt. Often it's a handful of seniors getting into multiple top schools. What you can't look at is the crazy expensive and exhausting supplementing the UMC families have invariably done to achieve these results. We know some of these families. It's not uncommon for Latin families to fork out 10K or more a year to bump up the education ("cheaper than Sidwell!"). Easy to pretend that Latin did it all but not realistic or honest.

Don't you ever get tired of posting this nonsense? Everyday is some weird (and not even plausible!) lie about Latin and some ridiculous DCI boosterism. You seem very insecure about your child being at DCI.

I thought this was the basis poster. Either way, it’s insufferable.

Both are very insecure.

Get a life. Please stop wearing your own insecurity about DC public school qualify on your sleeve. If you believes wholeheartedly in what you're peddling, you'd have no need to slam random PPs. You seem to be conflating a number of them into one or two. Waste of time.

The reality is that no DC public school is all that great comparatively in the DMV. For great you need to go at least 10 miles north or west, e.g. Meridian HS in Falls Church City or school-within-a-school IBD programs or test-in magnets in VA and MoCo. Sure, a small number of DC public seniors will get into top colleges regardless.