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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What do you mean it doesn't serve IB parents well?

I can only go on scores and they seem pretty good when looking at the other schools you mentioned.  What are the specifics that makes upper level IB parents go elsewhere?[/quote]

I certainly can't speak for the others, but just this spring, I talked to the principal, half a dozen teachers, and attended a PTA meeting before deciding to look for greener pastures.

I saw lesson outlines using poor grammar posted in classrooms.  It's a dumpy school compared to the others on the Hill (the windows always look dirty, even when they're clean) and who knows if DCPS will really fix it up next year.  I've seen used condoms and broken glass on the playground a number of times, and creepy teenagers hopping the fence after dark.  The principal assured me that, under her watch, the school would never offer an accelerated learning program, or seek grant monies for one, because this would be "elitist and uncessary."   A plan to implement an AL program would have been a big selling point for me - my kid seems advanced.  The entire 2nd grade was on a field trip one day when I visited, and the principal couldn't remember where the kids had gone.  I learned that my kid would probably have been the only child of East Asian descent above preK.  The PTA seemed dysfunctional with tense racial and address cheater-IB politics bogging activity down.  More than enough for me to say forget it.

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