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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Latin vs. DCI debate is kind of silly. Latin (and BASIS) is mostly full of kids who went through DCPS elementary schools (happily) and chose not to lottery into the DCI feeders. I'm happy DCI is working out for those families, but the need to insult Latin makes no sense. Very few families are actively making that choice in 5th/6th grade -- it's done. The choice was made much, much earlier. They are choosing between Latin, BASIS, privates or moving to the Deal/Hardy zone.

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I don’t think anyone insulted Latin once. I genuinely think you’ll feel insulted unless people praise Latin and say they wish they could send their kids there. Latin isn’t a school we are interested in, but I don’t mean to insult anyone who sends their kid there at all. I am really happy a good school like Latin exists and I’m also glad the language immersion schools aren’t the only “good” schools in DC. [/quote]

I'm the PP you are responding to, and I actually have no skin in the game -- we chose BASIS over Latin. However, we have many friends at Latin who seem to be getting a perfectly good education, with high standards, and a very happy environment, and quite decent CAPE scores (at least in middle school). There are all people who can from good DCPS elementary schools and DCI or the feeders truly never crossed their minds. Im just imagining DCI parents saying some of these comments out loud to our friends and it feels kind of horrifying. [/quote]

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