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[quote=Anonymous]We’re moving back to town this summer and my son will be an upperclassman (not 9th) - our options likely will be JR and a couple of other schools. I called the school today to ask for the email address of the appropriate counselor along with the director of an academy he’s interested in, to see if it would even be feasible for him to join the academy late in the game since that would help us decide if he should go there, but the person I spoke with was immediately intensely irritable and said quite aggressively that we won’t be allowed to speak with anyone at JR until my student is enrolled there and school has started in the fall (and that he can’t choose classes until then), and that I can only obtain information from the website [which doesn’t have the information we need]. Is he really supposed to start school without being able to choose classes ahead of time? And how can we figure out if it will be a good fit before understanding what his options likely will be? He is coming from a pretty different system (no APs) so it’s not straightforward what requirements he will have met already and what classes he’ll be allowed to take. This is not my first rodeo with DCPS but even so I was pretty thrown by the intensity of her vitriol. Is this generally what we’d have to look forward to there or was it just the one person I happened to speak with? And are we just SOL for finding out any more information about what his schedule will look like (other then the generic stuff on the website, which may or may not apply to him) and if he could still join an academy?[/quote]

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