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[quote=Anonymous]You should seriously look at the kids commute to school when making a decision.

My son is a freshman at JR and so I can't answer all your questions but here are my thoughts:

If your kid is going to go to JR they should seriously look at an academy.  If they are in an Academy you will certainly get a newsletter that has a lot of information. Kid has had two field trips so far this year because he is in an academy.  There are 400+ kids in a grade, so I don't know about all grade field trips.  Website has a lot of info on the academies. The school newsletter is once a week and is just fine.

You might also want to look at the Instagram pages for the two schools.  JR posts a lot and has multiple accounts for different aspects of the school.

My child reports fewer fights than at middle school.

Lastly, my kids Spanish teacher quit the second week of school.  They finally had the replacement start last week. That's a whole term of no teaching.  The sub sat in the room and made sure the kids behaved, but didn't teach.  The school was bad on communication until the parents pushed. The slowness in onboarding the replacement was a DCPS issue, but the lack of communication was a school issue.  Once the parents started pushing on the lack of communication, the VP did improve and provide more updates.    [/quote]

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