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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My child is starting 6th at DCI this year. I'm going in with low expectations. For now we want to stay in the city and I think a city education does offer something that you can't get in the 'burbs. (Feel free to disagree.) We picked DCI over the inbound school for a number of reasons.

I'm definitely taking a try it and see approach. Maybe the commute will be untenable, maybe the academics won't be great (but my kid wasn't challenged in elementary school either, and we stayed, so...), maybe it'll be awful socially, I have no idea. We haven't ruled out moving, either. But I am always hearing from friends in the 'burbs about their gripes with their county's education system, too.

I'm glad to hear that DCI kids can get a shot at Walls.

But also, I don't think all UMC parents are aiming at elite universities. We're not. It's a rat race, especially for those of us who are not running in the right circles. [/quote]

I'm impressed with this post, PP. If you're not expecting all that much, sounds like DCI might work out for your kid, at least for ms.

We have friends EotP who bolted from decent DCPS or DCPC elementary schools with no more than 22 or 23 students in a classroom taught by two 2 teachers for most of the school day. They fled to Fairfax or MoCo for schools with up to 30 kids in a class taught by a single teacher. They complain more about the new schools than they grumbled about the old ones.

DCI wasn't awful on any level for my kid, who's on the shy side. It just wasn't great, especially given the longish, multi-stage commute (no Metro near Walter Read). Writing instruction was the worst, and language instruction was just so-so (not taken very seriously by families or admins more than teachers).  But math, science and electives were pretty good and there were some good teachers who differentiated well.

Any DC resident who's in 8th grade can apply to Walls, though not clear what the application will look like in the future. Walls has students who attended private middle schools. [/quote]

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