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[quote=Anonymous]Whatever. I identified mothers of students by listening to kids in school uniform address them as "mama."  The gaggle of mamas seemed just fine with one shouted obscenity after another, par for the course. Over the years, I've seen the scene played outside various DCPS schools (sad to say, including SH). It occurs to me that my kid already does more than enough cussing.

Sure, DD attends CTY camps, but you know what, she's hardly the most advanced kid in any subject in her class, let alone her grade. My strong impression is that Brent is not short on "advanced" kids (er, ordinary students with parents with a couple of high powered graduate degrees each).  To me, this is the crux of the problem where the Jefferson development trajectory goes, absent above-grade level classes across the board, preferably of the test-in type.

We've toured Deal, BASIS and Latin and they seemed worlds apart from Jefferson (5th grade algebra anybody? 5th grade Latin? 6th grade Mandarin?).  I had issues with each (too big, too claustrophobic, too much Latin) that I felt I could live with.

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