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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I will say that last year the SWS expansion "rescued" a lot of LT families.  Some went to SWS, Peabody, some went to Logan, some went to Maury, some went to Brent.  A few diehard fans stayed, but there was a lot of good movement.  I think choice in education is a good thing and have been surprised by some of these posts.  SWS is a great program, but not for every child.  [b]I don't think it would be a good neighborhood model, because for those kids who do not thrive in the reggio model, where would they go. [/b] That will matter more and more as it expands into higher grades.  [/quote]

IB kids who don't thrive on the Reggio model are going to thrive, at least by upper-middle-class standards, at rough and tumble LT, Payne, Miner and Watkins?  These schools offer the good neighborhood models?  Or would they be found in Brookland, where kids are driven miles to sort of learn foreign languages and cultures their families generally aren't familiar with?  Or at untested charters that haven't made it to 5th grade yet?  Hill parents without cash to burn generally think in terms of thriving by living in the city and making do where schools are concerned.   The "right" model is such a luxury at this juncture in Hill history that the concept is farcical.

I was never uncomfortable with the upstairs/downstairs division at Peabody myself.  SWS' study body looked a lot more like that of my street/block/neighborhood than the other program's ever did.

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