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[quote=Anonymous]Hate to break it to you, PP, but there aren't exactly "great experiences" at public middle schools, not in this particular city. There are just good middle school experiences, mediocre ones and bad ones. Great experiences are the preserve of privates and the outer burbs.

Look around. The Deal building was built for around 1000 students with about 1700 enrolled, meaning a dank classroom trailer village, and provides inadequate humanities challenge for many students (no academic tracking for English in DCPS, other than at Stuart Hobson, no formal GT anywhere). Hardy is really coming along, but doesn't provide nearly enough challenge for the strongest students there, either. Stuart Hobson lacks neighborhood buy-in on the part of at least 2/3 of eligible in-boundary families, for many good reasons. The rest of the DCPS MS programs aren't really on the radar for UMC families, though a few super ideological UMC parents will claim that Jefferson Academy and Eliot-Hine are great, even beyond great.

Top-tier charters like DCI, Inspired Teaching and Two Rivers are OK for middle school, not more.  BASIS is mostly kill and drill in a joyless building w/out so much as a library, green space, gym or stage, but is far and away the best in DC public for math and science challenge (I'm not going to go as far as "STEM" in a building without much in the way of technology, including a computer lab of any kind.[/quote]

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