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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The next two years are going to be awful. IB parents who got in elsewhere are leaving; those with younger kids are mostly planning to come back. Lots of 2nd and 3rd grade families are moving off the Hill. The Upper School set up is even worse than I could have imagined. It's the exact same non-differentiated class on the ELA side; they didn't even change the book (so my kid read the same book twice in a row). I have actually complained the the Chancellor about it, since I don't think it should be possible that your IB school adopts a model that appears to be designed to drive out 5th graders intentionally.[/quote]

Dramatic much? Upper school is not great, nor was it ever. I wouldn’t transfer in for just those years. Some families are of course leaving but it’s not that many and honestly even less than I expected - lots of folks with kids young enough to see the upside of the new building are sticking it out, or those with older kids who have an established middle school path (sibling preference). The bus ride is what it is but I’d still take the school and community plus bus ride over switching just to avoid the bus.

It’s a different calculation of course if you’re considering transferring in! It may be harder to build community with a bus drop off/pickup versus milling around the school. Depends on what grades your kids would be joining.[/quote]

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