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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We’ve lived in Ward 6 for 30 years and have 2 teenagers, so we know a whole bunch of families with kids at Latin, BASIS, Walls, DCI and various privates for HS. We also know a bunch of families who bailed on DCPS at DCPCS for the burbs along the way, seemingly without regret. [b]The best suburban public schools are obviously much better than anything we have in DC. What’s also clear is that Latin doesn’t offer the same rigor for the highest achievers as Walls, BASIS and arguably, DCI. [/b]None of these DC public schools offer a combo of excellent ECs and academics. You can protest all you want and point to data and pathways without changing any of it.  If you can swing a private or a move to the burbs, you go. [/quote]

Looking at Latin's college acceptances so far this year announced on Instagram, and I'm seeing Yale, Stanford, MIT, Princeton, Stanford, Cornell, Michigan, Tufts... There's only 90 or so seniors at Latin so it's substantially smaller than SWW, less than half the size of DCI and is a small fraction of the size of those behemoth high schools in the burbs. [/quote]

Take what's announced on Instagram with a grain of salt. Often it's a handful of seniors getting into multiple top schools. What you can't look at is the crazy expensive and exhausting supplementing the UMC families have invariably done to achieve these results. We know some of these families.  It's not uncommon for Latin families to fork out 10K or more a year to bump up the education ("cheaper than Sidwell!"). Easy to pretend that Latin did it all but not realistic or honest. [/quote]

You can say that for any school. Or
Do you think parents in MCPS aren’t supplementing?[/quote]

No they are, but not to the same extent.  I know this because I have siblings with teens in MoCo. The three of us often compare notes on what we're doing to support the kids at school. MoCo high schools, with big cohorts of kids realistically aiming high in college admissions, offer supports, sometimes organized by the kids themselves, that you just don't see in smallish DCPCS like Latin. The ECs in MoCo, which are cheap or free, are miles ahead of those found at DCP public charters. When my siblings' kids compete in state, regional and national competitions for this and that, the county sends them, even paying for the hotels and flights.  They've even been sent to summer language immersion programs abroad on the county time - not goof-around travel programs, serious IB Diploma exam prep in Asia or Europe. DCPS prioritizes paying to help struggling students while MoCo invests heavily in high achievers. [/quote]

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