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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We know a bunch of Hill families of students who went through Stuart Hobson, now in HS (mostly at Walls) or college, who seem to be doing just fine.  Some of these SH grads attend elite SLACs, Amherst, Middlebury, Swarthmore.  We also know Brent students who went through Jefferson Academy and Maury students who went through Eliot-Hine, now top students at Walls or Banneker. These families coped and supplemented uncomplainingly, living their values by sending their children to neighborhood middle schools to stay in the community they love. More power to them. We've known these sweet kids since they were tiny tots. Come on, middle school is a tough age no matter where kids land. Our family isn't OK with DCPS after ES so we choose a parochial MS, but I'm not going to slam fellow Hill parents for having made a different choice, coming here to accuse them of poor parenting.  
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lol. they only “lived their values” because their kids got into Walls … [/quote]

LOL. Your criticism doesn’t make much sense.

Are you suggesting that these people somehow sent their kids to their neighborhood middle schools only [i]after[/i] they were accepted into Without Walls? I suppose it’s theoretically possible for someone to wait until spring of 8th grade (after being accepted into Without Walls) to switch to a neighborhood middle school, but I highly doubt that’s what PP was referring to.

Presumably PP was referring to people who chose their neighborhood middle schools long before knowing their kids would be accepted into a selective high school.

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I'm not the PP. but I believe the implication is that the "values" suddenly went poof at the end of 8th grade. [/quote]

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