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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Have thought about this extensively and we are going to move from the Hill to IB for JR or MacArthur. We are city people and I think that being able to walk to school and a later school start time are overall worth it. Financially the other options would be Silver Spring or Bethesda and I’m not sure Blair, Einstein or BCC are worth the upheaval. My biggest reservation is probably lack of in state college admissions. Yes we expect to pay for tutoring but my kid would likely need that anywhere. [/quote]

We don’t need to do anything yet but the opposite for us.  Why stay in the same incompetent race to the bottom system such as DCPS?  JR and MacArthur academics are so, so mediocre schools at best.  I hear behavior issues are off the chart.

Better money spent moving to the good pyramids to VA or MD where your kid is with a very large cohort of high performing kids and the rigor is there.  No need to supplement or tutors which is huge benefit, giving your kid more time in the day to do other things. Better run school system, better academics, less behavior issues, better facilities and extracurriculars, etc…
And the in state college options and benefits are huge.

Above is if your kid is high performing.  If your kid is average or below average then I think JR or MacArthur is fine.[/quote]

JR and Walls (of course that is application) have plenty of high performing students.  JR had around 20 Ivy admits last year a kid representing the US (1 of 5 in the country) at a world debate tournament.

None of those kids had any supplementing except maybe SAT prep which literally almost everyone does (including Big3 kids and top suburban schools).

OP check out the MCPS and FCPS boards…grass is always greener but there are lots of complaints on those boards.  They have great schools but I guess suffer from some similar issues as DCPS.[/quote]

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