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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you are a typical DCUM parent - upper middle class, well-educated, engaged with your children and their education - your kid will do equally well regardless of whether they are in DC or Arlington.  Of course, the worst DC schools are worse than the best Arlington schools.  But as a DCUM parent, you are not sending your kid to the worst schools.  You will probably send to Jackson Reed, McArthur, or one of the top charters.  They will have excellent opportunities at those places, find a great peer group, and then go on to do well at a college that is right for them - same as they would if you moved to Arlington.[/quote]

My friend thought that and then her kids AP Bio class never had a teacher. That isn’t an easy thing for a parent to fix. Yes some kids do end up well prepared for college from these schools but it’s a combo of a lot of parent intervention and luck (or getting the teacher who is willing to buy the class books). Plus it is just a bigger mental load on parents to have kids at dcps. I felt like I could win a Nobel prize after I left DC because I was spending so much less mental energy on my kids education).[/quote]

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