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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My children go to Whittier and I echo the previous posts.  It’s a wonderful school, wonderful school community and the leadership is strong.  It has a low teacher turnover rate (which is a good indicator in DCPS of a well run school and a good professional setting for teachers).  My kids are in lower grades.  While we love Whittier, I can’t imagine sending my kids to Wells.[/quote]

Any particular reasons why you can't imagine Wells? It's pretty new and continues improving each year with more students. The principals works pretty closely and I imagine it will continue to improve especially with more buy in. Kids from Wells get into SWW, Banneker, McKinley, Ellington.[/quote]

I don’t think the course offerings are enough for my children and worry about having a cohort of high achieving peers to push the need for advanced classes.  I also think, in general, that DCPS middle schools with higher test scores get more freedom in the way they teach and assignments they give.  So it’s just Wells in particular.  And getting into walls and Banneker, given the admission criteria, is not the same as being fully prepared for those schools.[/quote]

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