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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]All the hand wringing and doom & gloom on this thread from parents who claim they have no choice but to move to the burbs over MS and HS quality is ridiculous.

If you're determined to dig in to stay, you'll find a way forward.  You'll figure out how to get your 6th grader to and from DCI safely, or you'll give Latin Cooper a try, or Inspired Teaching, or Two Rivers, or CH Montessori, or Jefferson Academy or whatever.  You may pay to supplement with tutors, Kumon Math and on-line courses. You may fork out for a parochial middle school. You'll hope for Walls, keep an open mind about Banneker and McKinley Tech, maybe even opt to rent in the burbs for HS before returning home to the Hill as an empty nester.

If you're not committed to staying, you'll crumble and leave forever.  We've been on the Hill since the 1990s, so we know that there are really only 2 types of middle-class parents with young children here. Those hell bent on staying in the long-run and those on the fence who wind up leaving in the absence of serious lottery luck in 4th grade (read for Latin 1 or BASIS).

Not too hard to tell which camp you're in.[/quote]

You are discounting the amount of mental thought and energy the school process takes up in DC. It is exhausting.[/quote]

Not discounting it at all.  But you either suck the hassle up or you go. Worth it to fight to stay on the Hill for some families, not for many others.  At least half the UMC families with kids seem to bail somewhere between K and 9th grades. [/quote]

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