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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We do need more quality MS options of course.  But how can we get them when those with the power to create them aren't listening, and the Brent and Maury parents have given up on lobbying them for a viable neighborhood or test-in option because the cause appears hopeless?

As things stand, Latin is taking one-third of the Hill families putting their names in the hat.  By contrast, BASIS still had room for all comers in early September, meaning that some Brent families "chose" it when their kids aren't really 7th grade algebra material.

If a Brent family didn't get into Latin, can't afford privates, and doesn't want to move to the burbs, what can they do but "choose" BASIS?  Go with Jefferson Academy, with test scores in the 40s?  Pick Two Rivers' unchallenging MS, or struggling Stuart Hobson with lottery luck?

The elementary immersion schools feeding to DCI aren't convenient to the Brent District, are getting tough to crack, only take little kids, and aren't all that hot academically for either English or the target languages (look at their test scores, and ask around about absurdly low percentages of native speakers at the several non-Spanish programs).

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You're right, and not a new problem described here, of course.  I have a remote hope that DCI will be taking some number kids outside of the feeder schools, even if they don't come from a language immersion background.  That would be a simply awesome school, and not really that hard for them to accomplish IF they have space and resources for non-immersion language classes at the old Walter Reed.  Hardy will probably cease having space for many OOB within a few years.  Other than that, maybe go to Catholic school at what is usually about half the "private" price?

Because the options are not many, Brent parents should probably start looking at Hardy as an example (again, assuming it proves to be an example of change) and try to push en masse going to the Neighborhood school.  It could work, at least theoretically.[/quote]

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