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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Jefferson is fine.  But it is also possible to return for 5th grade and then lottery for Hardy, SH, EH, go private, move, whatever.  The US model has been losing lots of students to Basis and some students to options like 5th grade at Ludlow and leaving the system after 4th grade who might have under other circumstances been more willing to stay through 5th.[/quote]

Fine for whom? For my ethnically East Asian kid, who would have been the only Asian in 6th grade? Seriously, I asked. Fine for the Brent families in my kids cohort who tried Jefferson and bailed mid-year in 6th grade because they were unhappy in the program? Come on, not an easy switch to go from Brent demographics to Jefferson demographics and there still aren't definite honors classes at Jefferson in most core subjects.

We were at Brent for a long time, for 3 kids, so I know that Jefferson was much more popular with Brent families pre-Covid than it is now. The biggest cohort of UMC families going from Brent to Jefferson in 2019 was more than double than it was last year. What's happening these days is that Brent families jump on a Stuart Hobson spot, or even go to Eliot Hine, if they strike out in the lotteries for the Latins and Hobson rather than head to Jefferson. Some of the kids who go to Hobson now are the younger sibs of students who went to Jefferson 5 or 6 years ago. It's very hard to lottery into Hardy from Ward 6 now. [/quote]

+1. Agree there was a time when Jefferson was considered a real option. But enough people tried it and it didn’t work for them. I don’t think this is about upper school, really, but about what it represents for many people, which is that their kid lost out on the lottery, they don’t have a plan for MS or HS, and lots of their kid’s friends have moved on to something new. [/quote]

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