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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How to posters know that the Ward 6 DCPS middle schools do not provide a reasonably good foundation and/or do not try to provide any challenge for capable students, etc.?  Personal experience?  This board is largely families who (understandably) felt skeptical/unhappy with the area DCPS middle school options, went in a different direction after 4th/5th, and those are valid opinions/experiences but the level of knowledge that most active posters seem to have as to the actual day to day experience at these schools is rarely deep.[/quote]

What's more, some of the Hill kids at Ward 6 DCPS middle schools read like mad outside school, are provided with writing tutors, math tutors, attend Johns Hopkins CTY camps in the summers, language immersion camp experiences, you name it. It's just not a safe assumption that Hill UMC families with very bright kids who are self starters are going to be behind BASIS pr private school students academically simply because they attend Ward 6 middle schools.  This is the Information Age, after all, a time when highly motivated students can learn endless math off IXL, Khan Academy etc.  Academic snobs and BASIS boosters maybe in for a rude awakening when a few of these kids crack....HPYC, MIT, Stanford etc. eventually. Hint: it happens.[/quote]

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