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[quote=Anonymous]If you want all of those bells and whistles, then you need a larger school environment like Deal.  IT is a small school with smaller resources and will have limited MS offerings in the beginning.  No one knows what the long-term will look like or where the school will be.  They're still working out the younger grades.  That said, lots of kids don't have the options of Deal, Hardy, Latin, or Basis.

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a friend with a 4th grader there who loves it.  She is definitely keeping her son there through 8th.  We are seriously considering it for middle school for our now 3rd grader (based on her recommendation). [/quote]

I'm curious to know more about this.  I'm genuinely appreciative of IT's teaching philosophy, but wonder how it would successfully transfer to older grades.  There's a certain economy of scale in school-wide resources such as science-labs, team-based sports, band/orchestra, etc. at any level.  That challenge is amplified when combining an ES with an MS - the student numbers to make them possible simply aren't there.

On the other hand, I honestly wonder how the successful-as-MS-charters will do with HS.  Latin has proven some success, but I'd like to know more.  They've graduated one class.  In any event, it's apparently following a traditionally elite private school model.  I don't know what to think yet of Basis.  Yes, the story in a wealthy suburb in Arizona sounds good, but if it were that easy to transplant success from the suburbs to the city, then who needs Arizona?  We've got TJ right here in the DC area, but that won't work in DC.  Maybe I'm too much of an old-fashioned private-school student, myself.  Well-rounded appeals to me as much as it does to my Ivy.[/quote][/quote]

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