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I'm just not seeing an upside to DCI for a high achieving students on the college prep front if you have access to J-R, particularly since IBD isn't too serious at DCI.

DCI's high school is for parents EotP the don't crack Walls or McArthur and don't care for Banneker or McKinley.[/quote]

I think this is key: "[b]on the high college prep front.[/b]" I have a high-achieving child going into 8th grade at DCI, and we're definitely staying for high school. Will he only be surrounded by high-achieving students at DCI? No. If we moved out of DC, might he end up with higher IB scores? Sure. If he'd gone to BASIS (we didn't lottery for it), might he have a better change of geting into a higher-ranked college? Maybe. (But the odds are low for any student!) But the key question for us is, if he gets into a college that's top-15 ranked instead of top-30 ranked, how different will his life be? And are those chances worth the extra stress of high school? What about him seeing that his parents want him segregated from lower-achieving students? What about him being segregated from the demographics of the city he's grown up in? (BASIS is only 30% Black or Hispanic; even less if we move to a suburban IB program.)

Instead, we think that DCI will give him a good academic education, he'll get into a fine college, he'll be fine. And he will have gone to a high school that has, and lives, truly democratic values. Most importantly: it's a school where he's incredibly happy.

I wish the same for all your children.[/quote]

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