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[quote=Anonymous]Don't let posters fool you about Latin - open lottery admissions in a city such a troubled school system doesn't attract strong students in droves.  My family has a long relationship with Boston Latin (Washington Latin's model, see the web site) which has always had highly selective admissions.

We just left Latin after 8th, for a private.  Most of my DC's friends are also leaving, mainly for SWW and Wilson.  A good quarter of the middle school students struggle with fairly basic skills, particularly in math (the weakest link in DCPS).  If your kid is truly advanced, Latin remains mediocre compared to suburban GT programs and the better privates, nice as the parent group is, and as committed as the teachers and administrators are.  The teachers are mostly young/inexperienced, poorly paid compared to DCPS teachers, and under pressure to focus on helping slow kids.  It's a much better school that S-H but still mired in relativism.

Our second child is at Brent and we're planning to move to the burbs for his MS and our eldest's last two years of HS.  It's hit and miss with DCPS and DC charter - too much bouncing around for the kids as a result.  But then we'd like ours to attend the top technology universities we did.

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