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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP is right. Exit your own bubble perhaps, the one mired in relativism. Look around. Our near neighbors--Arlington, MoCo, Fairfax--know how to support large, well-run high schools offering much stronger academics and ECs than anything found in DC public schools. Claiming that we can do just fine without such institutions, and that the best of our public middle and high schools are just as good, is silly.

Things were much better just 5 years ago, when an applicant to Walls needed 2 standardized test scores to apply, a general score (from the DC-CAS, later the PARCC, or PSAT 8/9) and the Walls-specific test. Since 2021, no standardized test scores needed, which is unforgiveable.

I was just looking at IB Diploma offerings in some of the suburban schools to compare them to those at Eastern, Banneker and DCI.  There's no comparison. The best public suburban programs are offering at least 2x, even 3 or 4x times the IBD courses on offer here in the District. We're not talking about a quality gap; it's a chasm.    [/quote]

The question is what value you place on living in DC? Some folks place a good deal of value on it— enough to navigate the DC public school landscape warts and all with full knowledge of superior school options in the burbs. Of course, the suburbs aren’t exactly what they used to be 25 years ago, the trend lines don’t look good, and the high-performing zones are still $$$$.

Our family wasn’t willing to compromise on either, so we live in an EotP neighborhood we like and send our kids to private schools (that offer the full range of academics and ECs) for middle/HS. Perhaps moving would have made more sense $to$, but it didn’t for us given the balance of tradeoffs overall, including lifestyle and insufficient draw of suburban schools.

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Pretty curious about which neighborhood and which school you commute to.[/quote]

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