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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not sure what the "real issue" is, or if it's "progress" that Brent's 5th grade is always jammed with families who struck out at BASIS and the Latins.  Still, I'm glad that a number of my kid's old pals will likely be returning for 5th grade.[/quote]

Pretty sure it could be “jammed with families that struck out at BASIS and the Latins” [b]but they aren’t families that are zoned for Brent—most of those kids are gone by fifth.[/b] Old info, but this was the best I could find: “Such decisions are common at Brent. After the 2014-15 school year, 70 percent of 4th-graders didn’t return for 5th grade. That’s actually an improvement from the year before, when more than 80 percent left.” https://wamu.org/story/16/03/02/5th_grade_dropoff/[/quote]

Just not true. We stayed for 5th grade at Brent last year. There were more than 30 students, down from around 65 in 4th grade, so almost half of the kids stayed. Same story this school year. Many of these kids were unable to get off 5th grade wait lists for Latin and Basis. Others were heading abroad for a parent's job, or to privates, or planning to go to Jefferson Academy all along. The great majority of these 5th graders were zoned for Brent.  We've known most of them since they were toddlers.[/quote]

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