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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]After reading your story, I'm wondering why you didn't see the writing on the wall for MS somewhere between 2014 and the present.

Our situation wasn't all that different from yours in 2014.  We had bought a place IB for JO Wilson, before kids.  We worked hard to spruce the house up, sold up, and bought a bigger fixer upper IB for Maury in 2014, now with 2 toddlers.  We bought house #2 after sitting in on Brent, Maury, Watkins/Cluster and Ludlow PTA meetings, to get a feel for the lay of the land where rising Hill elementary schools were concerned.  We attended open houses at Eliot-Hine and Stuart Hobson before we bought house #2.  We started looking at PARCC scores for EH and SH and asking about advanced classes.

Several years ago, upon discovering that some Hill families were not getting off the BASIS 5th grade WL, and that Latin 1 was becoming very difficult to access, we started saving for parochial MS. We researched parochial school options as Plan B in case lottery luck wasn't in the cards, which was time consuming.  We didn't get into BASIS, Latin 1 or Inspired Teaching last year, so returned to Maury for 5th. Our only option for 6th grade in the public system this past spring was DCI. We decided against the long, complicated commute and studying a random language.  Our oldest will start at a parochial MS in VA in the fall, which we can afford.

It sounds like you didn't dig deep enough, you didn't look far enough ahead, took too much well-intentioned advice at face value. [/quote]

DP. I was in the position of having to buy and move very quickly so I didn’t have the time to do all your (very good) due diligence. But I did check here and look at PARCC scores and felt satisfied that Maury would work. At the time we were zoned for SH and I felt the same way about SH and I think would probably enroll my kid there if the boundary hadn’t changed. EH is really a contender now though, I genuinely believe that. More people buying into it much more quickly than Jefferson. If only Brent were zoned for EH …. [/quote]

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