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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Same. We'd have stayed in DC public for Walls, supplementing for language. Decent language instruction at DCI wasn't worth missing out on a first-rate high school for.[/quote]

You and PP above you are outliers because not many DCI families leaving for burbs, Walls, or privates.

DCI has a very high retention rate, close to mid 90%.  We know family who declined the Walls offer.[/quote]

Sure, but where else are these kids going to go if the families don't love DCI?  The better-off families we know there--friends and neighbors of many years--leave for privates between middle and high school. Families or lesser means have stayed but the parents talk about how they dearly wish they had a better option. They'd skip the hour-long commute from Ward 6 SE by public transportation in a heartbeat for their teens if they had a decent option that didn't include it. That seems to be half the reason these families try for Walls - an easy commute by Metro from Capitol Hill. Nobody seems to love IBD for all at DCI. Most of these families are there because they struck out in the Latin and BASIS lotteries years ago.[/quote]

You paint such a broad picture of dissatisfaction all around for DCI families and it isn't true. We have a rising senior and we didn't try for Latin, BASIS, or Walls and I don't really know of many of my DD's friends who did either. We don't want to move to the burbs, even if the education is supposedly better because we value the urban experience our children are getting in DC, beyond just their school experience.  [/quote]

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