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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP again.  Thank you, pps, for filling me in.  I certainly didn't mean to spark a round of anything-you-can-do-I-can-do-better with Basis and Deal parents as the chorus.  I'm impressed by the collective boosting though - parental loyalty to both schools sounds like testament to a pioneering spirit in NW.

My dearest wish right now is for a Fairfax or MoCo caliber public MS to suddenly emerge on the Hill.  Failing that, the dough for a private.  Looking at the pack of middle-class elementary school kids coming up, I feel like "everyman" parent here, with scores soon to confront the same dilemna.   We essentially have six months to stay put and go with Basis, or 18 months to move and go with Deal/Wilson, or with MoCo.  We could, of course, go with Stuart Hobson, or maybe Two Rivers, but they don't seem worth it.  Hardly the end of the world whatever course we choose.

I'm disappointed, but not surprised, to learn that Deal only tracks for math, and will indefinitely from the sounds of it.  I say this because the "differentiated learning within the classroom approach" has worked less well for us with each passing year of elementary school as the gap between the kids who struggle (yes, mostly low-SES and AA, but certainly not all) and the advanced kids (yes, mostly white or Asian and high-SES, but certainly not all) grows.  [b]My older child read all the Harry Potter books in the 3rd grade, where she sat alongide a few kids who struggled to read chapter books.  Since tracking for subjects other than math is almost certainly what it's going to take this particular child to be consistently challenged, it doen't sound like Deal would be good fit. [/b] And I can't feel enthusiastic about the sounds of the non-academic facilities at Basis.  I'd really like a school with at least a gym and a stage/auditorium.

Signing off her by saying thanks again, we'll weigh it all in the balance between now and decision-making time.

Dude...my kid read all of the Harry Potter series in the fall of 2nd grade, with about half of the class (I know this because the kids discussed it [i]ad nauseum[/i] all year and tried to beat each other on the accelerated reading program).  He attends Lafayette, and something like 96% of last year's 5th grade class moved on to Deal, so that's who your kids would be in class with.  Geez.

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