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I can speak to what motivates me. I know several EH families and they’re constantly trying to get other people to send their high performing kids to EH so their own children will have a good cohort because they struck out in the lottery. They come on this website and post misleading things about the test scores in every thread, including this one. If they truly thought the school was good, they wouldn’t be trying to change its demographics so desperately. It’s gross.  [/quote]

Yes, same. The same families that talk over and over again about the theater productions, the soccer, the swim team, golf, etc.  
I never hear anything about strong academics, it's all about the clubs and sports opportunities.[/quote]

OK, this really needs to stop. This exchange happened a few pages ago. Nobody is trying to convince anybody to go anywhere - some parents are answering here to describe their experience simply to counter the 'doom and gloom' that is always posted here. And while they do talk about clubs/sports, parents have also come on here to talk about feeling like their kids are being challenged academically as well.

And the 'i know families that do 'x' or 'y' ' argument also can be taken with a grain of salt. My family along with many others didn't even enter the lottery before enrolling in our DCPS middle school. Are there some parents who struck out and are bitter? Sure. But there are a lot of parents who are intentionally sending their kids to the school where they attend. So having this one size fits all argument and pretending there is some giant conspiracy agenda that is organized by all of the parents at a given school is just silly.[/quote]

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