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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a high-performing kid, and we opted for our IB middle school for logistics, community, and because I liked the school and knew other kids who had been happy there. I presume we’ll have no problem getting into a select HS (and for me that doesn’t have to be just SWW), but I’m also intrigued by Eastern and we’ll take a close look at it once it’s time, but from what I know now, I think my kid would do just fine there in the EPIC/IB program. [/quote]

That's great! Seems like the EPIC/IB program is a game changer.

DCPS, now do all the Cardozo high school feeders.[/quote]

I will say that at my Eastern ES feeder I haven't heard any enthusiasm about the Eastern program at all yet. When we were recently reviewing a list of Eastern students for a potential event, we couldn't find a single one from our ES. Similarly, we have never heard anything directly from Eastern's admin trying to connect families with the school even for a meet and greet or single event, so I'm pretty skeptical there's been any wholesale change in the minds of most. (This is very different than the vibe around our MS feeder which definitely has improved and the Principal has really made an effort the last few years.)[/quote]

This reflects our experience as well. One of the things that has happened with the MSs on the Hill is that a decent number of families with kids at feeder elementaries wind up with an older child at SH or E-H. This on it's own builds up interest in the MS because as your kid hits upper elementary grades, you see these siblings and can talk to their parents about it and people have been mostly pretty positive (the negative things I've heard are things that I hear about middle school in general, not specific to these schools).

Who knows, maybe these larger cohorts of inbound students at the middle schools will result in a foothold at Easter and we'll see the same thing, with the older siblings talking it up a bit to not only younger siblings but also their peers, and just making it feel like a more realistic option for more families. But it hasn't happened yet, that I can tell. [/quote]

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