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Anonymous
Just curious, what NW PS schools are you referring to??? I feel the same way, but I am being told otherwise. I consider the good DC PS to be Janey, Mann, Murch, Key, Eaton, and perhaps Lowell. I dont mean to omit and offend others good DC PS's, but these are the schools in my area including the school designated to my neighborhood. Are these the schools you are referring to? |
Anonymous
| Just to clarify. Lowell is a independent private. Yes ! it is a wonderful school in DC |
Anonymous
| can i translate in Russian and post on my blog? ) |
Anonymous
Depends on the school, your kid, your luck and you. We talked to our local school principal and talked to friends who had kids there. I was shocked by the size of the classes and the condition of the school. The lack of a gifted program also was a big negative factor. The biggest factor for us, though, was talking to friends who had good years and some really, really bad ones, found the principal unresponsive, and said if I talked to five families about the school I would get five different answers. Those friends said your experience in the school would be largely driven by luck. We also talked to our preschool head about our kid and the right fit. We are paying for private. Our local school did not make the list above, but it is the one where the Mayor caused an uproar by getting his kids in through the OOB process. Don't assume everyone who lives in a supposedly good or great elementary school zone is throwing money out for privates just for the heck of it. Some of us actually do think about and look into these things. I also know that if I need to move my kid to a different private later, I can do that, so I am not too worried about finding out I have a different kid than I thought I did when I looked for a pre-K/K spot. |
Anonymous
| It's hard to believe that you were "shocked by the size of the classes and the condition of the school" at Lafayette. The school is in very good condition and gets better every year, and class sizes have traditionally been small, especially in the early grades; my kids have always been in smaller classes than their Montgomery County counterparts. All the teachers are not fantastic, but neither are the ones at the private schools and, as a whole, there are more very good ones than very bad ones. |
Anonymous
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Lafayette is not in good condition and the classes are huge, in each case as compared to the private school my kid attends. I was not looking at the question of whether to move across the line, so I have no interest in the MoCo comparison. My point was that DCPS is not a universal solution for everyone, even in "good" elementary schools. To me, it is worth paying what I pay to have my children not attend Lafayette. You are free to make a different choice. Obviously, your child's experience there was much different than my friend's child's experience.
I believe this thread is about private schools and admissions results. Do you have some you would like to share or do you want to continue the topic of how people should not "waste" their money by making what they view as an appropriate school choice for their child? |
Anonymous
| We have also decided to go private over Lafayette. We toured the school, did the research, and talked to a lot of parents. We found the school over crowded, hate the open plan, worried about getting one of the "bad" teachers, and were disappointed at the lack of foreign language and how thinly spread the art and music teachers were. We wanted badly to love it, but just didn't. |
Anonymous
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6th grade, girl, diversity
GDS - accepted Maret - accepted Sidwell - accepted Not sure which one yet |
Anonymous
| Where did 6th grade girl attend prior to the acceptances? As for all the nit-picking over Lafayette, that's just crazy. My pediatrician said to me way back when, while first born was in K at Ross ES when no neighborhood kids attended, "just think about the lessons he'll learn being patient and waiting his turn" when I lamented there were too many kids in the classroom. He stayed at Ross years before it was popular and now has the choice of GDS or WIS. We may even opt to stay public because the kids and families we are meeting who are "lifers" seem clueless as to how good they have it. Education comes in many forms, and waiting your turn and feeling equal to all is priceless. |
Anonymous
I didn't know there was a lack of foreign language instruction at Lafayette? I thought they taught Spanish from a very early age... |
Anonymous
| Lafayette has no foreign language curriculum whatsoever. The HSA has arranged for a before-school Spanish class that you can pay for your child to take. That's it. |
Anonymous
| 6th grade girl currently attends a DCPS in NW that feeds into Deal -- I'm apologize for not being specific because I want to keep this anonymous |
Anonymous
| Sidwell parent here: If you are waitlisted for PK, try again for K. Odds are much better. |
Anonymous
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Accepted to Sidwell and GDS
Not sure which one yet |
Anonymous
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