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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My friend's above-grade-level son is in 8th grade at Stuart Hobson - hoping to go to SWW next year.[/quote]

We've know a dozen of SH students in the neighborhood who are IB and UMC since they were tots.  Most of the parents supplement considerably, particularly for science and social students (not tracked, many kids working below grade level, some bringing their behavioral problems to the classroom).  Nice, resilient kids, but generally not GT material and none of them advanced foreign language students.

We've decided not to bother with SH for a rising IB 5th grader. Far too many poorly prepared and rowdy kids would be in class with ours. Hoping for BASIS, Latin or fi aid at a private.  If not, we'll move and return to our Hill home as empty nesters.

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^^this is the same persistent troll with some weird fixation on SH.  SH has a decent track record of application HS placements.

"GT material"?  You have no F*@!ing idea what you're talking about.[/quote]

Not the PT you're responding to and I have no fixation on with any DCPS program. But I can tell you this, Walls give strong preference to DCPS applicants. If they didn't, more spots would go to charter applicants and private school applicants.

Many SH, Deal and Hardy applicants essentially sail into Walls when they aren't well prepared. If you're arguing that DCPS MS grads routinely crack top private high schools without parents having paid to supplement, I'm calling BS.  I have college pals who work as private school admins in DC.  Their schools run summer programs mainly to prep top DCPS MS grads to handle HS rigor.[/quote]

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