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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]  I don't even plug my kid's school because it's irrelevant.  Families should find the school that best suits their children's [b]educational needs[/b].  .[/quote]

The best DC school to fit your kid's educational needs, if you're not raising a special needs kid, can be found easily enough.  It's Sidwell, Maret or one of the other NW privates, certainly not a public school, or even CHDS or St. Peter.

If you're talking about social "needs," where your kid rubs shoulders with many others whose parents can't afford $30,000 per child annually, and avoids a long commute to NW, public school on the Hill.

We all make do at DCPS and charter schools; we're hardly talking about high-powered and well-endowed independents and suburban schools.  I know one Brent family that hit the road for an all-gifted MoCo school serving 4th and 5th graders.  What would I give for a program like that around here?

Can't help but agree with posters who expect Brent to pull ahead of the other Hill elementary schools on most fronts because of the money and momentum in that corner of SE.  I've seen LT District families buy in SE for that reason - their IB option seems to be going nowhere and they can no longer plan to lottery into Peabody/Watkins or nearby charters catering to high-SES families.

True that future parents don't always plan ahead to ensure that a good IB option is waiting for them, but some read the writing on the wall a few years in.  As has been pointed out, the middle-class cohort on the Hill is spread much too thin at the elementary schools and S-H.

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