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[quote=Anonymous]My child is in K now at Brent and has had an absolutely fantastic year (school play, music lessons, art, interesting field trips, lots of reading and writing stories) and adores the K teachers .  I really can't imagine that any other school in DC would have provided better/more opportunities.  So I'm not sure how folks can claim Brent is "mediocre" - at least in the earlier grades.  Something IS going on in the testing grades - but I don't have the specific information about the students being tested to fully form an opinion on whether the testing results reflect teaching or cohort (i.e., I know Brent has traditionally lost a lot of its IB kids beginning in 3d grade as people peel off for privates, etc., in preparation for the middle school problem).  I would be shocked if my child's current 100% IB cohort scored poorly on tests in a couple of years . . . but if half of the K current class is gone and replaced by OOB kids who have not received the same educational foundation, or kids w/SN who cannot perform at grade level, or kids w/behavioral problems - well, that could explain poor testing performance.

As far as the neighborhood, we could not be happier living on Capitol Hill.  We use our car at most once a week; most everything is within a ten minute walk.  As someone noted upthread, why would anyone want to be in close proximity to Bethesda/Silver Spring/NW?  Why does one go to those areas if you don't live there?  I'd rather be able to walk to work/the Mall/museums/waterfront, etc.[/quote]

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