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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There goes most of the 4th grade cohort from Maury, Brent and SWS on Cap Hill.  Between Latin 1, Latin 2 (despite not-so-hot building and location) and BASIS few will stay for 5th.  I get it, but it's too bad.[/quote]

I truly don't understand why creating more space in an open-enrollment middle school that has a proven record of educating kids well and sending them on to success in high school and beyond is "too bad". Why must we always tear down the good things happening educationally in our city?[/quote]

Because you don't want to understand, to see the forest for the trees. It's too bad that our highest-performing local elementary schools on Capitol Hill lose up to 2/3 of their 4th graders to BASIS because DCPS and the charters aren't aligned on the transition year to middle school.  Why must we always accept almost everything DC public schools dishes out passively as parents?

Of the 70 plus 4th graders at Brent this year, we'll probably have 15 or 20 left for 5th grade with the new Latin campus opening.  I get why the 4th grade parents go, not why things have to be this way in the big picture.  I highly doubt that most of the 4th grade parents would run off if they didn't have to get on the 5th-12th grade train at Latin or BASIS to stay in the city with confidence that their children can get a good public school education after Brent.  The Jefferson Academy boosters will jump on shortly, claiming that a fine education can be had at the by-right school, so no need to run.   Whatever.[/quote]

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