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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]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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Someone ought to check the ROI, because Brent's results look a lot like those of other Hill ES.  Higher SES also traslates to ease of affording CDS or parochials, not that those communities aren't served by other families spread across the Hill which is generally skewing higher SES.  That also overlooks the Stanton Park neighbohood, which hardly suffers for lack of high SES families, but they get  LT for ES.

And honestly, for Hill house shoppers the prospect of Brent vs. other neighborhood options is not much of factor (at least according to my friend and agent on the Hill who knows).  Most people move up before they know if or what they'd want from a school for their hypothetical or very young kids.  ES isn't the concern (EC wasn't even a concern for my family as we went private).  I agree that there's a Brent contingent who really wishes their kids attended JKLMM.  And from my experience I haven't seen too many WoTP helicopter parents  -- their kids usually look bored while mommy or daddy is locked into their device or the parents aren't around because they 'dump and run' for kids' events or farm it out to the nanny.
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