Middle school options

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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.

I think people are just tired of you posting and reposting this on the DCPS board. Like we get it already. Our school choices all suck and our kids don’t read books or learn science.

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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.

Ok, well those schools all suck compared to Bronx Sci and Stuy and TJ. There's always a bigger fish, sweetie. DC should have better options, but we do have good options. And chances are, your kid is not too smart or too diligent for them to handle.

[Anonymous]

A school need not be holistically “great” for ambitious families to find it suitable for their needs and goals, including admission to elite colleges.

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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.

DP. Nothing on here about anything DCI or Basis.

Comment above is about a person who is obviously at Latin or knows some of these Latin families.

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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.

DP. Nothing on here about anything DCI or Basis.

Comment above is about a person who is obviously at Latin or knows some of these Latin families.

This is the Internet equivalent of holding up a fake mustache and pretending you're a different person. Your sock puppeting isn't fooling anyone.

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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.

DP. Nothing on here about anything DCI or Basis.

Comment above is about a person who is obviously at Latin or knows some of these Latin families.

This is the Internet equivalent of holding up a fake mustache and pretending you're a different person. Your sock puppeting isn't fooling anyone.

Believe what you want but I did not post above about the supplementing at Latin. Better to just deny and place supposed blame on other schools not even mentioned than to acknowledge some truths. Carry on.

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Anonymous wrote:PP is right. Exit your own bubble perhaps, the one mired in relativism. Look around. Our near neighbors--Arlington, MoCo, Fairfax--know how to support large, well-run high schools offering much stronger academics and ECs than anything found in DC public schools. Claiming that we can do just fine without such institutions, and that the best of our public middle and high schools are just as good, is silly.

Things were much better just 5 years ago, when an applicant to Walls needed 2 standardized test scores to apply, a general score (from the DC-CAS, later the PARCC, or PSAT 8/9) and the Walls-specific test. Since 2021, no standardized test scores needed, which is unforgiveable.

I was just looking at IB Diploma offerings in some of the suburban schools to compare them to those at Eastern, Banneker and DCI. There's no comparison. The best public suburban programs are offering at least 2x, even 3 or 4x times the IBD courses on offer here in the District. We're not talking about a quality gap; it's a chasm.

The question is what value you place on living in DC? Some folks place a good deal of value on it— enough to navigate the DC public school landscape warts and all with full knowledge of superior school options in the burbs. Of course, the suburbs aren’t exactly what they used to be 25 years ago, the trend lines don’t look good, and the high-performing zones are still $$$$.

Our family wasn’t willing to compromise on either, so we live in an EotP neighborhood we like and send our kids to private schools (that offer the full range of academics and ECs) for middle/HS. Perhaps moving would have made more sense $to$, but it didn’t for us given the balance of tradeoffs overall, including lifestyle and insufficient draw of suburban schools.

Pretty curious about which neighborhood and which school you commute to.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You have to think about HS not middle school.

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Hardy feeds into MacArthur while Deal feeds into JR now.

Our kid prefers MacArthur. We had a choice when MacArthur first opened.