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PP here Sorry, but I'm calling BS and chalking this to pervasive Brent boosterism. The Hill estate market is very healthy right now, inentory shortages are pervasive, and days on market are short. . . but that's as much of a red herring as Brent's real estate market reflecting its value as a school. Given the fact that Brent families are peeling off around 4th grade just like other Hill ES options reinforces the underlying MS concern.

signed Hill/DCPS parent who CAN afford Brent's district but wouldleave DC outright if driven primarily by public school performance metrics.[/quote]

I'm a Brent parent and i agree with you in part.  the boosterism is annoying, unseemly and wrong-- how do you really know the other Hill schools are so much worse than Brent?

But I have a rising 4th grader and he will stay thorugh 4th and so will many of his cohorts (or so the parents tell me!!-- hmmmm . . . ).  BASIS and Latin pulled off a lot of Brent rising 5th graders this year, but next year (for better and worse) it will likely be far more difficult for rising 5th graders to get into those charters, so there may be more staying put at Brent.

Anyway, whether or not kids will pull out of Brent after 4th, Brent kids will get 7 years of decent elementary school if they start in preK 3.  Not bad!

But whether those 7 years are spent at Brent or at, say, Maury, is unlikely to make a signficant difference in the overall scheme of your kid's life.

YMMV
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Don't see the boosterism as much as factual statements some would rather not hear.  There's more money in the Brent District than the others on the Hill, and money buys facilities and program offerings.  But it also buys snobbery, helicopter parents and mean-spirited competition for kids - we're going to see more of the negatives you find at WOTP elementary schools at Brent soon enough.

Parents peel off for Latin and Basis from Watkins, too, and will surely be doing so from Maury in a couple of years.  SH appeals to few, Eliot-Hine to fewer.  And there will be more charters before long, probably DC International School at Walter Reed in 2013-2014, or maybe 2014-2015, for starters.  I won't be surprised if Basis opens a second branch eventually.  Everybody muddles through for MS somewhere.  Parents who plan ahead can circumvent the feeder problem (although they certainly shouldn't have to).

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