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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]That's a good decision as it had become PK3 exclusively for siblings anyway.  The school is tiny and the K and 1st grade classes are huge.[/quote]

Ross is one of the few schools that can afford to drop PK3.

In many elementary schools in DC, PK3 pulls in some of the parents that might otherwise send their kids to private schools.  (And are thus fairly focused on education.)
But Ross upper grades are filled with kids who are already very focused on education.  [/quote]

The parents who can go private, will go private regardless of PK3.[/quote]
Not true. I've had lots of conversations with parents who could afford private at the school and they feel pretty strongly about public school... though I know if the school was terrible, they would do private in a heartbeat. They already invested heavily in real estate in the neighborhood and absolutely love the community so don't want to leave. [/quote]

Really....are they sending their kids to Shaw MS (Nope), Cardozo, (nope, nope), so what they are committed to is a Benetton vibe until it matters, and then their kids magically enroll in privates. [/quote]
Well, the parents I talk to have kids in 2nd grade and under. But over half ross 5th graders now go on to Francis Stevens, which is the school we are zoned for. I think that number is rising too. [/quote]

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