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[quote=Anonymous]Disagree, OP sounds practical and forthright.  If you value diversity over high SES representation, more power to you.  If she doesn't, and wants her kid in a majority high SES school like Brent, more power to her.  To each her own in a free society.

Re the middle school feeder situation  - high SES Hill'ites must adjust the reality that their middle schools are now Latin, Basis and privates and will be for many years. The only other option with appeal to upper-middle-class families will be a test-in DCPS middle school program, started maybe five years from now.  DCPS clearly isn't up to the challenge of offering neighborhood middle school programs that more than a small minority of upper-middle-class Hill residents feel comfortable with.

I'm not sure what reality we'll need to adjust to for high school.  Probably nothing more inspiring than middle school as space to save for privates, other than for an adventurous few at Latin, Basis, Banneker and SWW.  When Basis becomes oversubscribed, they will surely open a second city branch, as they've done in Tuscon.  There will be room for us all if we're OK with what they do.

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