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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^You're being harsh and the obsenities aren't needed.  This PP makes a good point.  We pulled our middle schooler grader out of 2 Rivers for a private, although it was a friendly, happy school, because of the lack of ability grouping.  We were concerned that he was not on track to be admitted either to the Ivies one of us attended for undergrad and grad school or the military academy the other attended.  Our younger child is at a language immersion school and we' are also concerned about open lottery admissions at DCI.  If you aren't concerned, great, but other parents are, and invalidating their concerns isn't reasonable.

One of our best friends is a teacher at Latin.  She talks openly about problems associated with putting low-performing and high-performing kids into the same classrooms (Latin only differentiates for 8th grade algebra in MS).  She doesn't think that Latin's HS is on the road to "launching Ivy League careers" because that's not the orientation of the school.  The administrators, guidance counselors (the most senior of whom is a Mt. Holyoke grad) and teachers aspire to see graduates attend small liberal arts colleges (e.g. Hamilton), not Ivies, top technical schools like MIT and CalTech, or military academies.  Will Basis DC be different?  Who knows.

Unfortunately, SWW and Wilson aren't as different from Latin as we'd like.  We'd love to see one high-powered public HS in the city emerge.  [b]Will DCI be it?  Hard to imagine open lottery admissions doing the trick.[/b][/quote]

Hope so.  That's the good thing about a school of that size (target = 1,000 students), there will be a large enough population so that the advanced students will be able to have the advanced classes necessary for an IB Diploma.

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