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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We're at SH for 6th and it's quite OK.  Math and ELA, the only academically tracked classes, are good. The fine arts instruction is seriously good, as are the facilities.  Discipline isn't great, but it isn't bad - certainly not a dangerous setting for my 12 year old.  If the school weren't a 2-minute walk from our house, we wouldn't bother.  But it is, she's happy enough there, and we squeeze in 90 minutes of tutoring after school several days a week without the commute to wherever.  Working for us but we may not stay to 8th grade.
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If math and ELA are good, why 180-270 minutes of tutoring per week? What subjects?[/quote]

Wow, 90 minutes several days a week is a lot of tutoring.  That tells me the rigor is very lacking.[/quote]

Come, maybe what tutoring tells you is that a family is both aiming high and catering to their student's academic quirky interests.  We have friends in MoCo magnets who pay for tutoring for straight A students.

Something is severely lacking everywhere you look in the DC public MS realm....

At BASIS, it's fresh air and enough exercise, joy and respect for the individual.

At Deal, it's a student body that hasn't fit in the building for a decade now - seen their trailer village?

At Washington Latin, it's achievement standards - social promotion rules.[/quote]

Your MoCo magnet friends are the exception, not the norm.  Most don’t pay for tutoring.[/quote]

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