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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People are always posting about DC public middle schools as though we have a world of choice, as in why go with SH when BASIS, Latin, Hardy and Deal and the burbs are better?! OK, so they're better, but many of us just aren't in a great position to do better than SH. It's much easier, and cheaper, for some of us to bump up the social studies and science at SH ourselves than move to Upper NW, VA or MoCo after we struck out in the charter lotteries. Or maybe we didn't strike out but were turned off by the difficult commute to DCI from CH SE, or we got into BASIS and realized that our kid would be miserable there. My kid's round-trip commute to SH is less than five minutes on foot, vs. two hours by public transportation with DCI (my other option). This is a no-brainer, folks. [/quote]

That’s fine if you want to prioritize convenience and saving money over your kids education.

Not it’s not a no brainer to choose SH.  You absolutely have choices and have  decided to put lower on the list your child’s education.

For us, it a no brainer to go private or move to a much better school if the lottery doesn’t work out.  
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Spare us this sort of super judgmental, holier than thou post.

We know a couple SH grads from five years ago, when the school obviously wasn't nearly as good as gentrified as it is now, who are undergrads at top 10 SLACs.  That's right, they went from Walls to colleges admitting in the single digits. Maybe your kid needs a private middle school or a high-powered suburban school to reach for the stars academically. Every student and family doesn't. We know SH families without TVs: these families read like crazy. We know SH students whose parents who are engineers teaching the kids extra math as a matter of course.  As far as I can tell, they prioritize their children's education like mad.

Come on, there are obviously students who attend OK middle schools who wind up a top colleges. [/quote]

An independently motivated student can succeed at any school. The point of OP's post was that her child isn't independently motivated. [/quote]

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