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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you're on these boards to get yourself worked up, panicked, and hyperventilating, then stay on it and enjoy the adrenaline.

But if you come here for true advice, then chill! Your children are not doomed by any measure, absolutely and decidedly not, no matter what the fear mongers and action seeker here are trying to make you believe. I can tell you so based on years of experience with kids in DCPS and kids moving through the kind of rough patches that aren't even fathomable in today's state of DCPS anymore. Granted, we paid half of what you did for our house and that may make all the mental difference. But the bottom line is the same: our kids are doing exceptionally well by any measure, academically and socially, and so will yours, including if god forbid they had to attend Jefferson or Eliot-Hine.

Really, short of packing up and moving to (well, where exactly are schools at that much better?!), the very best action you can take at this time is take an active interest and start getting involved in your destination school. I guarantee you, you will not only feel good about it but also reassured.[/quote]

Come on, almost all neighborhood middle schools in Arlington, Fairfax and most of MoCo are higher performing than ours in Ward 6.  Even unpopular choices in S. Arlington and north of Silver Spring offer better help for students who struggle and advanced learners.

Sorry, but I disagree.  The very best action you can take at this time is to plan to work to vote out Bowser, Grosso and others when the time comes.

No doubt our kids would indeed survive if they had to attend Jefferson or Eliot-Hine.  But then life is too short to settle for schools without stable power grids, advanced math, serious foreign language study etc.  Where's the fun in it?

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