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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote][b]I'm not buying that there's a shortage of seats in DC private schools that run you 35K+ a year. [/b]Over the years, every Hill family we know who wanted a tony private found one willing to enroll their kid, if not a Top 5 school.[/quote]

You're referring to my point 7 pages ago that it's not a solid exit plan to airily say "oh we'll just [i]go private.[/i]"   There is an intense scarcity of seats in the excellent, top private high schools, all of which are in upper NW except Potomac.  To your point, if an EoTP family is just looking for an escape route from Eastern or Cardozo and will go anywhere, then I agree.  They'll find some school, any school, that will accept their non-violent teenager.  All the schools these  now cost $30K.

A vast majority of these are Catholic, and it's not Catholic bashing to say that there are a lot of DCUMers who say -- in their own words -- that they don't want to send their not-Catholic kids (especially females, now) to schools with mandatory weekly Mass and mandatory catechism courses.   ie, Stone Ridge, Gonzaga, St. Anselm's, St. John's, Bishop Ireton, DeMatha, Good Counsel and to a lesser extent, Visi, GP (who aren't in the mix bc they essentially admit only legacies or athletic recruits).

You think these Catholic-eschewers EoTP will get into Maret or Sidwell at 9th grade or even 6th.  I disagree.

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IMHO, if you're a parent hell bent on sending your children attending a "top high school," don't live on CH, even if you're rich.  If you think that your offspring can get a good education anyway, few places are as wonderful to live as the Hill.

Around our block, one kid who we've known all his life is off to an Ivy in the fall, from BASIS.  Another senior is off to a different Ivy from Latin.  Neighbors home schooled for middle school, after pulling out of DCI, mainly because the commute was too much for them.  Their girl is now a straight-A student at a top Catholic school (from an atheist family, she says she zones out during Mass).

To be sure, there are no perfect solutions where schooling is concerned for Hill denizens.  Some of us plan to muddle through just the same.

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Triple Ivy League grad (BA, MA, PhD) parent who attended a HS ranked in the bottom third in my state[/quote]

You seem to be contradicting yourself Triple Ivy League grad.  Sound like you can go to a top high school even if you live in Capitol Hill.[/quote]

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