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[quote=Anonymous]On the elementary school front, it seems like families without an acceptable IB option are open to trying a less secure option in the early grades and continuing to try and play the lottery and sometimes discover the school they have can work.  In middle, there seem to be a few known options that are considered solid or acceptable even if not your first choice, including (in no particular order) Deal, Hardy, Latin, DCI, Stuart Hobson, Basis, maybe even SWW at Francis Stevens (and of course, Unicorn Middle).  If you are a family with high educational expectations that sends your prepared kid to school every day ready to learn and get into none of these, what do you do?  Do families, move, go private, or do they actually send their well-prepared kids to what most of us consider unacceptable schools?

I feel like a lot of elementary schools have improved significantly because of both gentrification and a willingness for parents to take a chance of DCPS ECE and the experience once there that a school has reached or is on the verge of the tipping point so they stay.  I don't perceive that is happening at the Middle School level because parents sound less likely to take a chance, but yet there are a lot of well prepared kids coming out of more and more elementary schools around town.  Where are they going?[/quote]

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