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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Well the top independent schools have become far more competitive to get accepted to since 2013 and a lot of these students are coming from MD and VA.  There is increasing disgruntlement (among some parents) with Mont Co and Virginia schools over the past 5 years.  My guess is that the quality of student at the top independents has gone up.   They used to be places where just the wealthy of Washington would send their kids.  Now they draw primarily from the greater DMV and not just upper NW.  If anything the quality of experience at Wilson (at least for the cohort that  are now seniors) has gone up.   If there is a shift in the amount of kids being national merit semi finalists from private vs public in DC, [b]I think you need to look to the privates and not to a problem with the publics for your answer. [/quote][/b]

OK, but the number of NMSFs in the DC burbs hasn't dropped in the last decade. More than one-quarter of TJ students, from Fairfax and Arlington, clear the bar annually then as now.  More MoCo and VA parents may indeed be dissatisfied with their local schools than six or eight years ago, but their unhappiness hasn't been reflected in PSAT results.

When you run your schools system without formal GT programs, as the District does, leaving school PTAs to pay for much of the enrichment for high performers down the chain, you're asking for crappy NMSF results.  There is absolutely a problem with DC public schools failing to push and support the best and brightest, particularly at the ES and MS levels. The support for high performers is too little, too late, with affluent parents stepping in to provide too much of the enrichment for their own children. The arrangement hurts the most capable low SES students most. Honors for All at Wilson is emblematic of this serious problem.  [/quote]

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