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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I love parents who have kids in 1st grade who think they have it all figured out.  It is like dealing with 16 year olds who are sure they know better than their parents.  We just nod and smile and say "that's great, honey. So glad you are feeling good. " and we think " they have NO IDEA" what's ahead[/quote]Different poster here. Seems to me that things have changed a lot in this area and that that poster may have a different sense of what is possible.  Down the road maybe that poster will follow a course different from yours and maybe they won't.  I don't think any of us knows what the middle school options will be for kids currently in 1st grade.  But of course go ahead and be condescending - that will win you lots of converts.[/quote]

I think you and some others completely misunderstood that poster's "you have no idea", testimony to the fact that you really don't. During elementary school, you might think that kids and school are virtually synonymous. It's, like, us, my child, her/his teacher, our school, well and a little bit of other stuff. A pre-teen or teenager is a different breed. Choosing a school is a worry to be sure, but it's a worry that has so many more dimensions than picking an elementary school, and there is so much more "other" stuff, [b]you really just have no idea[/b]. Joyful stuff, I'm not trying to scare you, but it's going to be one of many, many dimensions in your life.[/quote]Pp here. As a matter of fact, I do have an idea. My kid is 19 and I've been there done that already.  So I'm not scared at all having already raised a child and contemplated our choices when the kid hit middle school and high school. I just know that people make various choices as their kids grow up and sometimes their plans change and sometimes they don't.  But also sometimes the conditions change in ways you can't anticipate so who are you to predict the future?  Case in point - when my child was coming up, it was easy to get into a good DCPS out of boundaries and now it's difficult.  Well, maybe all the middle class families coming into the elementary schools in Capitol Hill will increase the middle school options.  Or not.  One way or another, there's no need to be snotty and superior about it - or to lecture me, who's BTDT, about what's coming up. Unless you'd like to hear me go on about how you have no idea what it's like to get a kid into college.  No?  Good, I'll spare you that.[/quote]

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