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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you want to send your child to NCS or Sidwell, don’t assume she will be able to get in at middle school after doing French immersion. It sounds like you’re  ignorant, not arrogant but both schools have extremely competitive admissions at 6th and 7th. WIS and Rochambeau are not considered to be academically strong schools. Your daughter will be competing with kids from MoCo magnets, NPS, St. Patrick’s, and schools like Sheridan and Norwood. All these schools are more competitive for entry to NCS and Sidwell than WIS or Rochambeau.

The best chance of entry to NCS is sending your daughter to Beauvoir PK then applying at 4th bc of the special status given Beauvoir applicants. The best chance of entry to Sidwell is in PK. [/quote]

Oh please.

WiS is MORE rigorous than whatever you call top 3 or top 5 or whatever dc-centric ranking you have in mind.

It is true that few kids go from WIS to those because....why would you go backwards?[/quote]

I think a lot of people unfamiliar with the IB primary years program mistake what is a multi-disciplinary, inquiry based approach that is very much a do not teach to the test education model as lack of rigor. But it all prepares kids and builds them up for the very rigorous IB diploma program. If you don't intent to keep your kids in for the IB diploma pay-off, I agree there are probably other options to consider than WIS for elementary. But, if you want your child to be highly prepared for both college and life in an increasingly complex, global world then you can really do no better than WIS for the totality of their education. [/quote]

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