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[quote=Anonymous]I haven't seen that abbreviation on here in a while.

I think people talk about a lot of elementary schools throughout the city that are great. We live in NE and I don't feel like people put down the elementaries here. Many are very sought after.

But what you will continue to see is a preference for Deal/Hardy, and JR/maybe McArthur. Because while people like the elementaries on this side of town, and there is increasing acceptance of some of the middle schools, the HS situation outside JR/McArthur is b-a-d. Sorry. I say that as someone zoned for Dunbar with lots of friends zoned for Eastern. It's a bad situation and no one knows how to fix it. Yeah yeah yeah, I know -- if you just got inbound families to buy in, it would change. But you can't get a critical mass of IB families to buy in. Trust me, we have these conversations all the time. Even people who are sticking with DCPS for middle, when push comes to shove, they by and large choose charters/application schools/private/moving over high school. The number of families willing to go to a school like Eastern, even after attending and liking SH or E-H for middle, is minuscule. And the needle isn't moving.

So you will continue to see more focus on JR/McArthur triangles on these boards. Or discussions of Latin, Basis, Walls, Banneker. Or people decamping for the suburbs or looking a private for HS.[/quote]

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