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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Which DCPS middle school(s)are you considering? Stuart Hobson and Hardy offer a menu of "honors" classes pitched at grade level serving only around one quarter of their students.  Sounds like your kids would be OK at either, generally challenged though not necessarily pushed.

If the DCPS MS you have your eye on is close to home, you could do what we do without punishing your kid, hire tutors to supplement in the afternoons and on weekends.  We hire tutors and tutor the kid ourselves, 5-8 hours per week, to add rigor and personal attention rather than have the kid commute an hour and a half daily to reach a better school or go private (a real stretch for us financially).[/quote]

I've never considered tutoring and have no idea what it's like. What's it like? You find someone on Craigslist? Do they come to your house? Do they teach individually or groups? Is it for math or language or what?[/quote]

Many possibilities.  We hire a cheerful, patient college student who's incredibly good at explaining math concepts for $25/ hour.  We advertised FOR such a person on Craigslist and he found us.  He comes to our house.

We also use a great on-line math tutoring service--the wonderful tutor is in India--for a $200/month subscription.  We're about to form a writing tutoring group with two other 6th grade families, where everybody kicks in around $50 per week to pay a lovely tutor with a strong background in writing instruction.  We spend around $150/week on tutoring, plus another $100 week on language, dance and music classes.  $250/week to supplement 9 months of the year is chump change when compared to tuition to a pricey private school.  Our commute to the local DCPS is 3 minutes, on foot.   We could have switched to BASIS a few weeks into the school year but didn't like the way they weed middle school kids out and the over-the-top emphasis on grades, scores and testing.

You have options on tutoring if you have the dough, are resourceful about lining up good tutors, and offer your kid incentives to cooperate (e.g. cool vacations).  We don't advertise the tutoring we pay for at the school, and will probably switch to a private for 8th grade +.

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