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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Parent of two DCPS graduates, both went to Hardy and then graduated from Wilson/Jackson Reed.  It is hard to make a direct comparison between the middle schools, but I can tell you that measuring the ultimate outcome -  college acceptance and readiness - the DCPS kids were very much on par with their peers from Arlington and Montgomery County.

If anything, I think the DCPS kids were more college ready and independent than the Arlington/MoCo kids.[/quote]

This is just not true.  But keep telling yourself that.  [/quote]

I know it is a cope for Arlington and MoCo parents to deny this, but based on peers from sports, camps, and other activities, your basic middle-class DCPS kids will equal or outperform their nearby peers from Arlington/MoCo public schools.  [/quote]

It’s not a “cope.”  It’s a reality.  I’m a product of “Arlington/MoCo public schools” myself—from pre-K through high school—but now live in DC with kids in DCPS.  My oldest is a high school freshman.

My kids are doing fine and I’m sure they’ll end up fine, but navigating the DC public school system to make sure that has happened and will continue to happen is exhausting.  What you also don’t appear to understand because you haven’t experienced it personally is that the “peer” group and “cohorts” of which you speak are much smaller in DC than what’s in the suburban schools.

I don’t regret my decision to live in the city and educate my kids in the public schools here, but I’m not going to lie to myself and say that generally speaking the schools are just as good as the ones I attended.  I’m a realist.

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