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[quote=Anonymous]OP, your beliefs are not uncommon for elementary-age parents. The problem is that DCPS will put your philosophical commitments to the test! I was heavily, heavily involved in our IB for years, and I learned that it's NOT just that people don't enroll. It's that but it's also the concentration of high-needs kids, and the dysfunction and incompetence of the central office. It's partly due to teacher quality too, but honestly if they fired all the incompetent teachers there wouldn't be enough incoming teachers to hire to replace them, so we're kinda stuck with it.

It sounds like you're running up against the higher stakes of middle and high school, the low quality generally of DCPS middle schools, and the uncertainty of application high school admissions. Because you, like everyone else, have your limits and are not willing to put your kids in a school that's over your personal line. Some people hit that limit in preschool, others in elementary, others now.

I would suggest you list Latin, because it probably won't happen. If you'd like to stick with DCPS, I suggest you check out Stuart-Hobson, Eliot-Hine, Francis, and Wells as potential middle schools. Be open to a 6th grader riding a bus-- lots of kids do this and it's fine. The DCPS neighborhood school boundaries are arbitrary and the city changes them sometimes-- it's not like some major philosophical issue to go out of boundary when it's just a line on a map.

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