Does anyone on Capitol Hill send their kid to an elementary in upper NW?

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Anonymous wrote:OP, my kids were at a CH school some years ago for pre k/K and I LOVED it. But even though the I loved their teachers and classmates, I didn't like the behavior, language, and activity I was seeing from some of the kids in the upper grades (4-5/6), so I applied out for private. I thought about waiting a few years, but I figured they had a better chance of getting accepted to the lower grades.

They both got in to great schools and I haven't regretted the decision at all, not even once. The commute isn't great, but its a sacrifice I chose to make and one that won't last forever. Good luck to you in whatever you decide to do.

As a mom to a child starting ECE in CH, I'm just curious, what privates are CH families moving to for later elementary years? And then do you plan to stay private for MS and HS as well?

We looked at basically every school- including Capitol Hill Day and St. Peter’s on the Hill. We didn’t look at anything in Maryland. We looked at Potomac and Burgundy Farms in VA. If you begin to do research you’ll find a wide set of options. We are applying for K, first choice is Maret (and we find out Friday). We plan to do private through HS and will move closer to the school in a few years once we get the other 2 kids through daycare and prek (our eldest did get pre-K 3 lottery to our inbound). There were CH families at every school we looked at. Capitol Hill Day was fabulous, we didn’t end up applying because we decided we don’t like super progressive schools. I think it’s a great option if that’s your education philosophy.

You couldn't find tolerable public K on Capitol Hill? Come on, ridiculous. Capitol Hill Day just isn't fabulous. They're charging more than 30K for a campus without a gym or stage (they borrow stages from CH churches, including mine). No secret that CHD essentially admits any family that can pay where the kid isn't a discipline problem. If you want to raise a cocoon kid who may not be able to cope with the every day rough and tumble of life, keep at it, mom. We're Ivy league grads. Our kids went through a DCPS CH ES program from PreS-5th grade. They play in competitive orchestras at Strathmore, are bilingual (in a language not taught in any DC school), and compete in regional math Olympiads and pre-SCRIPPS spelling bees (and often win). Why don't you take your private school K rhapsodies to the private school threads, where they belong?

I’m very curious where your kids went. We are zoned for Watkins. We have played the lottery twice to get into other schools but so far no luck. Are you saying your kids went through Watkins? People with older kids don’t get it- it is so different now to try to get into schools OOBs on the Hill. It’s very very difficult. I am so sorry if you feel like my family’s personal choice is attacking your kids but it’s not. I don’t really care that your kids are bilingual math geniuses. Watkins isn’t an option for our family. We can’t get into any other schools on the Hill. Why do you care what we do? I answered PPs question.

New poster who doesn't care what you think or do as long as you take your posts to a private school board. This is not the appropriate forum for posts like yours.

Someone asked specifically, in this thread, what private schools CH families look at. What is your problem?

I'm not the PP you're slamming but agree that the above is a question is one for the private school board. This is the DC PUBLIC and CHARTER school board. Your problem is that you're on the wrong thread, along with one or two others here. Migrate to that thread and ask away.

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We commute to upper NW for a charter. It’s not ideal but I don’t regret it. Our children will enter middle school soon, whereupon they will be able to get themselves to school. I have had one insane neighbor (a repulsive white lady) try to to label our family racists for not going to our local school, but we don’t care.

The drive is bad but if your kids are older I would do it. I would not send your kids to a local Capitol Hill school when your gut is telling you it’s the wrong fit. Trust your gut.

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Anonymous wrote:We commute to upper NW for a charter. It’s not ideal but I don’t regret it. Our children will enter middle school soon, whereupon they will be able to get themselves to school. I have had one insane neighbor (a repulsive white lady) try to to label our family racists for not going to our local school, but we don’t care.

The drive is bad but if your kids are older I would do it. I would not send your kids to a local Capitol Hill school when your gut is telling you it’s the wrong fit. Trust your gut.

There aren't charters in Upper NW. There are charters in lower NW (BASIS and a few more) and Upper NE.

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Anonymous wrote:We commute to upper NW for a charter. It’s not ideal but I don’t regret it. Our children will enter middle school soon, whereupon they will be able to get themselves to school. I have had one insane neighbor (a repulsive white lady) try to to label our family racists for not going to our local school, but we don’t care.

The drive is bad but if your kids are older I would do it. I would not send your kids to a local Capitol Hill school when your gut is telling you it’s the wrong fit. Trust your gut.

There aren't charters in Upper NW. There are charters in lower NW (BASIS and a few more) and Upper NE.

Creative Minds is in NW, so is EL Haynes, Bethune, and Breakthrough. Did you mean WOTP?

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Anonymous wrote:We commute to upper NW for a charter. It’s not ideal but I don’t regret it. Our children will enter middle school soon, whereupon they will be able to get themselves to school. I have had one insane neighbor (a repulsive white lady) try to to label our family racists for not going to our local school, but we don’t care.

The drive is bad but if your kids are older I would do it. I would not send your kids to a local Capitol Hill school when your gut is telling you it’s the wrong fit. Trust your gut.

There aren't charters in Upper NW. There are charters in lower NW (BASIS and a few more) and Upper NE.

Creative Minds is in NW, so is EL Haynes, Bethune, and Breakthrough. Did you mean WOTP?

I live within a 5-10 minute drive of all of those schools and no, that's not "upper" NW. Breakthrough or Capital City maaaaay be upper NW, but only by a very liberal and literal definition of the term.

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Anonymous wrote:OP, my kids were at a CH school some years ago for pre k/K and I LOVED it. But even though the I loved their teachers and classmates, I didn't like the behavior, language, and activity I was seeing from some of the kids in the upper grades (4-5/6), so I applied out for private. I thought about waiting a few years, but I figured they had a better chance of getting accepted to the lower grades.

They both got in to great schools and I haven't regretted the decision at all, not even once. The commute isn't great, but its a sacrifice I chose to make and one that won't last forever. Good luck to you in whatever you decide to do.

As a mom to a child starting ECE in CH, I'm just curious, what privates are CH families moving to for later elementary years? And then do you plan to stay private for MS and HS as well?

We looked at basically every school- including Capitol Hill Day and St. Peter’s on the Hill. We didn’t look at anything in Maryland. We looked at Potomac and Burgundy Farms in VA. If you begin to do research you’ll find a wide set of options. We are applying for K, first choice is Maret (and we find out Friday). We plan to do private through HS and will move closer to the school in a few years once we get the other 2 kids through daycare and prek (our eldest did get pre-K 3 lottery to our inbound). There were CH families at every school we looked at. Capitol Hill Day was fabulous, we didn’t end up applying because we decided we don’t like super progressive schools. I think it’s a great option if that’s your education philosophy.

You couldn't find tolerable public K on Capitol Hill? Come on, ridiculous. Capitol Hill Day just isn't fabulous. They're charging more than 30K for a campus without a gym or stage (they borrow stages from CH churches, including mine). No secret that CHD essentially admits any family that can pay where the kid isn't a discipline problem. If you want to raise a cocoon kid who may not be able to cope with the every day rough and tumble of life, keep at it, mom. We're Ivy league grads. Our kids went through a DCPS CH ES program from PreS-5th grade. They play in competitive orchestras at Strathmore, are bilingual (in a language not taught in any DC school), and compete in regional math Olympiads and pre-SCRIPPS spelling bees (and often win). Why don't you take your private school K rhapsodies to the private school threads, where they belong?

Why didn’t you have your kids do the DC Youth Orchestra?
Don’t they practice at Eastern HS?

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Anonymous wrote:OP, my kids were at a CH school some years ago for pre k/K and I LOVED it. But even though the I loved their teachers and classmates, I didn't like the behavior, language, and activity I was seeing from some of the kids in the upper grades (4-5/6), so I applied out for private. I thought about waiting a few years, but I figured they had a better chance of getting accepted to the lower grades.

They both got in to great schools and I haven't regretted the decision at all, not even once. The commute isn't great, but its a sacrifice I chose to make and one that won't last forever. Good luck to you in whatever you decide to do.

As a mom to a child starting ECE in CH, I'm just curious, what privates are CH families moving to for later elementary years? And then do you plan to stay private for MS and HS as well?

We looked at basically every school- including Capitol Hill Day and St. Peter’s on the Hill. We didn’t look at anything in Maryland. We looked at Potomac and Burgundy Farms in VA. If you begin to do research you’ll find a wide set of options. We are applying for K, first choice is Maret (and we find out Friday). We plan to do private through HS and will move closer to the school in a few years once we get the other 2 kids through daycare and prek (our eldest did get pre-K 3 lottery to our inbound). There were CH families at every school we looked at. Capitol Hill Day was fabulous, we didn’t end up applying because we decided we don’t like super progressive schools. I think it’s a great option if that’s your education philosophy.

You couldn't find tolerable public K on Capitol Hill? Come on, ridiculous. Capitol Hill Day just isn't fabulous. They're charging more than 30K for a campus without a gym or stage (they borrow stages from CH churches, including mine). No secret that CHD essentially admits any family that can pay where the kid isn't a discipline problem. If you want to raise a cocoon kid who may not be able to cope with the every day rough and tumble of life, keep at it, mom. We're Ivy league grads. Our kids went through a DCPS CH ES program from PreS-5th grade. They play in competitive orchestras at Strathmore, are bilingual (in a language not taught in any DC school), and compete in regional math Olympiads and pre-SCRIPPS spelling bees (and often win). Why don't you take your private school K rhapsodies to the private school threads, where they belong?

Why didn’t you have your kids do the DC Youth Orchestra?
Don’t they practice at Eastern HS?

Sadly, not any more! My early/mid-ES kids do DCYOP (and it's a fabulous program in my mind), but they practice at TEC now.

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Anonymous wrote:We live near Eastern Market and find out on Friday if we are going to do the commute to an upper NW private. Can’t move for 3 years either but aren’t willing to do our Hill inbound. All our friends think we are crazy but I think it’ll be worth it.

Also on the Hill and waiting on private school decisions this Friday. Good luck!

Good luck to you too! If by any chance you end up commuting to Woodley Park and want to consider a carpool, come back to this thread. Hope you get good news on Friday!

Yes, Woodley Park is our first choice too!

Doable by Metro. But once the the Connecticut Avenue bikes lanes are finished this commute by car will be much less viable and a lot more painful.

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Anonymous wrote:OP, my kids were at a CH school some years ago for pre k/K and I LOVED it. But even though the I loved their teachers and classmates, I didn't like the behavior, language, and activity I was seeing from some of the kids in the upper grades (4-5/6), so I applied out for private. I thought about waiting a few years, but I figured they had a better chance of getting accepted to the lower grades.

They both got in to great schools and I haven't regretted the decision at all, not even once. The commute isn't great, but its a sacrifice I chose to make and one that won't last forever. Good luck to you in whatever you decide to do.

As a mom to a child starting ECE in CH, I'm just curious, what privates are CH families moving to for later elementary years? And then do you plan to stay private for MS and HS as well?

We looked at basically every school- including Capitol Hill Day and St. Peter’s on the Hill. We didn’t look at anything in Maryland. We looked at Potomac and Burgundy Farms in VA. If you begin to do research you’ll find a wide set of options. We are applying for K, first choice is Maret (and we find out Friday). We plan to do private through HS and will move closer to the school in a few years once we get the other 2 kids through daycare and prek (our eldest did get pre-K 3 lottery to our inbound). There were CH families at every school we looked at. Capitol Hill Day was fabulous, we didn’t end up applying because we decided we don’t like super progressive schools. I think it’s a great option if that’s your education philosophy.

You couldn't find tolerable public K on Capitol Hill? Come on, ridiculous. Capitol Hill Day just isn't fabulous. They're charging more than 30K for a campus without a gym or stage (they borrow stages from CH churches, including mine). No secret that CHD essentially admits any family that can pay where the kid isn't a discipline problem. If you want to raise a cocoon kid who may not be able to cope with the every day rough and tumble of life, keep at it, mom. We're Ivy league grads. Our kids went through a DCPS CH ES program from PreS-5th grade. They play in competitive orchestras at Strathmore, are bilingual (in a language not taught in any DC school), and compete in regional math Olympiads and pre-SCRIPPS spelling bees (and often win). Why don't you take your private school K rhapsodies to the private school threads, where they belong?

I’m very curious where your kids went. We are zoned for Watkins. We have played the lottery twice to get into other schools but so far no luck. Are you saying your kids went through Watkins? People with older kids don’t get it- it is so different now to try to get into schools OOBs on the Hill. It’s very very difficult. I am so sorry if you feel like my family’s personal choice is attacking your kids but it’s not. I don’t really care that your kids are bilingual math geniuses. Watkins isn’t an option for our family. We can’t get into any other schools on the Hill. Why do you care what we do? I answered PPs question.

New poster who doesn't care what you think or do as long as you take your posts to a private school board. This is not the appropriate forum for posts like yours.

Someone asked specifically, in this thread, what private schools CH families look at. What is your problem?

I'm not the PP you're slamming but agree that the above is a question is one for the private school board. This is the DC PUBLIC and CHARTER school board. Your problem is that you're on the wrong thread, along with one or two others here. Migrate to that thread and ask away.

NP. I disagree. This isn't binary. People consider both private and public schools at once. It is perfectly logical for people to blur the lines. The construct you have set up as the gatekeeper would preclude any discussion that considers both options at the same time. Plus, with all due respect, how bored or angry do you have to be to spend time policing this type of thing?

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Anonymous wrote:We live near Eastern Market and find out on Friday if we are going to do the commute to an upper NW private. Can’t move for 3 years either but aren’t willing to do our Hill inbound. All our friends think we are crazy but I think it’ll be worth it.

Also on the Hill and waiting on private school decisions this Friday. Good luck!

Good luck to you too! If by any chance you end up commuting to Woodley Park and want to consider a carpool, come back to this thread. Hope you get good news on Friday!

Yes, Woodley Park is our first choice too!

Doable by Metro. But once the the Connecticut Avenue bikes lanes are finished this commute by car will be much less viable and a lot more painful.

NP but I'd way rather do that commute by Metro anyway. I hate driving cross-town from the Hill, I don't know why you'd do that to yourself.

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Anonymous wrote:We live near Eastern Market and find out on Friday if we are going to do the commute to an upper NW private. Can’t move for 3 years either but aren’t willing to do our Hill inbound. All our friends think we are crazy but I think it’ll be worth it.

Also on the Hill and waiting on private school decisions this Friday. Good luck!

Good luck to you too! If by any chance you end up commuting to Woodley Park and want to consider a carpool, come back to this thread. Hope you get good news on Friday!

Yes, Woodley Park is our first choice too!

We got in! Hope you got good news too!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We live near Eastern Market and find out on Friday if we are going to do the commute to an upper NW private. Can’t move for 3 years either but aren’t willing to do our Hill inbound. All our friends think we are crazy but I think it’ll be worth it.

Also on the Hill and waiting on private school decisions this Friday. Good luck!

Good luck to you too! If by any chance you end up commuting to Woodley Park and want to consider a carpool, come back to this thread. Hope you get good news on Friday!

Yes, Woodley Park is our first choice too!

We got in! Hope you got good news too!

Ok now you really should stop. It's super annoying here for actual DCPS parents who don't have the "Woodley Park" alternative.

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Anonymous wrote:OP, my kids were at a CH school some years ago for pre k/K and I LOVED it. But even though the I loved their teachers and classmates, I didn't like the behavior, language, and activity I was seeing from some of the kids in the upper grades (4-5/6), so I applied out for private. I thought about waiting a few years, but I figured they had a better chance of getting accepted to the lower grades.

They both got in to great schools and I haven't regretted the decision at all, not even once. The commute isn't great, but its a sacrifice I chose to make and one that won't last forever. Good luck to you in whatever you decide to do.

As a mom to a child starting ECE in CH, I'm just curious, what privates are CH families moving to for later elementary years? And then do you plan to stay private for MS and HS as well?

We looked at basically every school- including Capitol Hill Day and St. Peter’s on the Hill. We didn’t look at anything in Maryland. We looked at Potomac and Burgundy Farms in VA. If you begin to do research you’ll find a wide set of options. We are applying for K, first choice is Maret (and we find out Friday). We plan to do private through HS and will move closer to the school in a few years once we get the other 2 kids through daycare and prek (our eldest did get pre-K 3 lottery to our inbound). There were CH families at every school we looked at. Capitol Hill Day was fabulous, we didn’t end up applying because we decided we don’t like super progressive schools. I think it’s a great option if that’s your education philosophy.

You couldn't find tolerable public K on Capitol Hill? Come on, ridiculous. Capitol Hill Day just isn't fabulous. They're charging more than 30K for a campus without a gym or stage (they borrow stages from CH churches, including mine). No secret that CHD essentially admits any family that can pay where the kid isn't a discipline problem. If you want to raise a cocoon kid who may not be able to cope with the every day rough and tumble of life, keep at it, mom. We're Ivy league grads. Our kids went through a DCPS CH ES program from PreS-5th grade. They play in competitive orchestras at Strathmore, are bilingual (in a language not taught in any DC school), and compete in regional math Olympiads and pre-SCRIPPS spelling bees (and often win). Why don't you take your private school K rhapsodies to the private school threads, where they belong?

Why didn’t you have your kids do the DC Youth Orchestra?
Don’t they practice at Eastern HS?

We started at DCYO but my kid wanted to play in one of the single wind instrument ensembles at Strathmore, offered for harp, flute and clarinet for ages 12-18 for those who audition successfully. The MYCO instruction and the fantastic venue--Strathmore--are worth the weekly commute to rehearsals. My older kid has a music/academic scholarship to a private after 8 years in DCPS.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, my kids were at a CH school some years ago for pre k/K and I LOVED it. But even though the I loved their teachers and classmates, I didn't like the behavior, language, and activity I was seeing from some of the kids in the upper grades (4-5/6), so I applied out for private. I thought about waiting a few years, but I figured they had a better chance of getting accepted to the lower grades.

They both got in to great schools and I haven't regretted the decision at all, not even once. The commute isn't great, but its a sacrifice I chose to make and one that won't last forever. Good luck to you in whatever you decide to do.

As a mom to a child starting ECE in CH, I'm just curious, what privates are CH families moving to for later elementary years? And then do you plan to stay private for MS and HS as well?

We looked at basically every school- including Capitol Hill Day and St. Peter’s on the Hill. We didn’t look at anything in Maryland. We looked at Potomac and Burgundy Farms in VA. If you begin to do research you’ll find a wide set of options. We are applying for K, first choice is Maret (and we find out Friday). We plan to do private through HS and will move closer to the school in a few years once we get the other 2 kids through daycare and prek (our eldest did get pre-K 3 lottery to our inbound). There were CH families at every school we looked at. Capitol Hill Day was fabulous, we didn’t end up applying because we decided we don’t like super progressive schools. I think it’s a great option if that’s your education philosophy.

You couldn't find tolerable public K on Capitol Hill? Come on, ridiculous. Capitol Hill Day just isn't fabulous. They're charging more than 30K for a campus without a gym or stage (they borrow stages from CH churches, including mine). No secret that CHD essentially admits any family that can pay where the kid isn't a discipline problem. If you want to raise a cocoon kid who may not be able to cope with the every day rough and tumble of life, keep at it, mom. We're Ivy league grads. Our kids went through a DCPS CH ES program from PreS-5th grade. They play in competitive orchestras at Strathmore, are bilingual (in a language not taught in any DC school), and compete in regional math Olympiads and pre-SCRIPPS spelling bees (and often win). Why don't you take your private school K rhapsodies to the private school threads, where they belong?

Why didn’t you have your kids do the DC Youth Orchestra?
Don’t they practice at Eastern HS?

We started at DCYO but my kid wanted to play in one of the single wind instrument ensembles at Strathmore, offered for harp, flute and clarinet for ages 12-18 for those who audition successfully. The MYCO instruction and the fantastic venue--Strathmore--are worth the weekly commute to rehearsals. My older kid has a music/academic scholarship to a private after 8 years in DCPS.

yikes that is a big committment to staying on the Hill.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP, my kids were at a CH school some years ago for pre k/K and I LOVED it. But even though the I loved their teachers and classmates, I didn't like the behavior, language, and activity I was seeing from some of the kids in the upper grades (4-5/6), so I applied out for private. I thought about waiting a few years, but I figured they had a better chance of getting accepted to the lower grades.

They both got in to great schools and I haven't regretted the decision at all, not even once. The commute isn't great, but its a sacrifice I chose to make and one that won't last forever. Good luck to you in whatever you decide to do.

As a mom to a child starting ECE in CH, I'm just curious, what privates are CH families moving to for later elementary years? And then do you plan to stay private for MS and HS as well?

We looked at basically every school- including Capitol Hill Day and St. Peter’s on the Hill. We didn’t look at anything in Maryland. We looked at Potomac and Burgundy Farms in VA. If you begin to do research you’ll find a wide set of options. We are applying for K, first choice is Maret (and we find out Friday). We plan to do private through HS and will move closer to the school in a few years once we get the other 2 kids through daycare and prek (our eldest did get pre-K 3 lottery to our inbound). There were CH families at every school we looked at. Capitol Hill Day was fabulous, we didn’t end up applying because we decided we don’t like super progressive schools. I think it’s a great option if that’s your education philosophy.

You couldn't find tolerable public K on Capitol Hill? Come on, ridiculous. Capitol Hill Day just isn't fabulous. They're charging more than 30K for a campus without a gym or stage (they borrow stages from CH churches, including mine). No secret that CHD essentially admits any family that can pay where the kid isn't a discipline problem. If you want to raise a cocoon kid who may not be able to cope with the every day rough and tumble of life, keep at it, mom. We're Ivy league grads. Our kids went through a DCPS CH ES program from PreS-5th grade. They play in competitive orchestras at Strathmore, are bilingual (in a language not taught in any DC school), and compete in regional math Olympiads and pre-SCRIPPS spelling bees (and often win). Why don't you take your private school K rhapsodies to the private school threads, where they belong?

Why didn’t you have your kids do the DC Youth Orchestra?
Don’t they practice at Eastern HS?

We started at DCYO but my kid wanted to play in one of the single wind instrument ensembles at Strathmore, offered for harp, flute and clarinet for ages 12-18 for those who audition successfully. The MYCO instruction and the fantastic venue--Strathmore--are worth the weekly commute to rehearsals. My older kid has a music/academic scholarship to a private after 8 years in DCPS.

yikes that is a big committment to staying on the Hill.

How many people would move for a once a week HS orchestra? Come on…