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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]BASIS discussions come up whenever a post is about SH for obvious reasons.  An enormous percentage of the BASIS student body is coming from Capitol Hill where families chose BASIS over SH.  So of course in assessing SH this post is evoking comments from parents explaining why they didn’t choose it.  But those parents didn’t forego SH for Deal.  By and large folks are not choosing between SH and Deal for the obvious reason that they are two very different boundary locations and the commute between the two boundaries is daunting.  So this thread wasn’t going to get too many helpful responses other than the obvious one: if you live in Capitol Hill and are worried about SH, look at BASIS and Latin and if that’s not for you or not an option, [b]choose Deal because it has the better HS feed at the expense of a very long commute if you live on the hill.  That’s it.  [/quote]
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I don't get what you're asserting. How can we choose Deal from the Hill? We can't, other than by doing one of two things.  We can uproot and move to Upper NW.  Alternatively, with considerable luck, we can lottery into a Deal ES feeder school at some point between K and 5th grade, taking on an miserable rush hour commute for a little kid.  I've only seen a handful of cases of the latter in the last 10 years.  One or two of the families we know who were on track for Deal from the Hill switched to BASIS for 5th grade, after the commute to Deal had become untenable.  When I came to the Hill 20 years ago, Hill kids could generally lottery into Deal.  That ship sailed a long time ago indeed.  Same with Hardy.  Some of the in-boundary SH families do OK with a MS school that's right around the corner, leaving them plenty of time to supplement in the afternoons. The kids read a lot, maybe go to Mathnasium, work with tutors, then crack Walls for HS.

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