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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s not that simple. Privates cost a bomb, even with fi aid, and giving up the community where you’ve lived for a long time is a huge deal. Plus DCPS seems to give preferential treatment in admissions for Walls and Banneker to families who stick with them for middle school.[/quote]

Banneker is a mediocre school at best.  The culture of the school is not the best fit for many kids.

Walls is also a mediocre school, and really as a selective school is on the lower end compared to magnets and selective programs in the burbs.  It’s just the standards in DC are so low that Walls is considered the best in the city.  The opaque admissions process has already lowered the academic cohort and will continue to do so.  Plus your chance of getting in is decreasing due to the admissions process above and DCPS goal of getting more kids into the school from under-represented wards in the city.

So if your plan is to risk middle school quality and education with the hopes of getting into Walls and then you don’t, then what?   Or if you get into Banneker and it’s not a good fit and your kid is miserable, then what is the plan?[/quote]

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