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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP here. I appreciate all of the feedback and accept I'm not being as open as I could be. My frustration with DW is her response every time schools are brought up is the schools here are bad. That's it. No substance whatsoever. She hasn't even heard of the charter DS will attend. I told her about others that were good and she had a blank stare. In her defense, the propaganda about DC schools being failures was pretty intense in the news, etc... But now because of that a lot of people aren't willing to take a deeper look- my wife included. I will say that no one has come on here heavily in defense of schools, so in reevaluating just how hype I should be on DS's new school. I'm kinda depressed actually. If we decide to move there's zero inventory in the pyramid school clusters DW says are good. Thanks for listening.[/quote]

Wait, now you are looking for a good defense of schools from DCUM. I mean really, either do your own homework or just move. This is a basic function of a parent-- look at school, look at child, make decision. What is good for my child (DCPS) may not be good for yours. We can't defend schools as a whole because we don't have experience at all schools. Of course some schools are bad and some are great. That happens in every school district.

Now about your wife-- welcome to being married to a man. Yep, most men leave the school stuff up to their wives. As we have navigates this system (charters, lottery, DCPS, middle schools!) my DH doesn't have a clue. I can repeatedly tell him why we are putting kid #2 _______ school because ______ and he will just say "why don't we live in the suburbs?"  I feel your frustration. [/quote]

This!  And, you claim to have researched the schools so much, yet you act as if we are just supposed to wholesale defend all of the feeder schools.  DC Bilingual and Yu Ying are completely different entities (as are the others, but these are the starkest comparison)!  How are we supposed to know whether it is a good school for your child if we know nothing about you!!!

Also, as a parent of a child who is thriving in a feeder school that we adore, I am ecstatic about DCI.  But, I'm realistic too.  There is no way that I would say that you will be set for education if you send your child to a feeder (even my feeder that we love).  Who knows?  Only time will tell.  At this point, I have high hopes it will be a great situation for us, but we plan to reevaluate on a regular basis, as we would if we sent our child to the Sidwell or the highest rated pyramid in Virginia.[/quote]

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