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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I should have clarified that the option for those concerned about SH is — AT 5th GRADE- to try for Latin or BASIS or a Deal feeder.  Lafayette basically cleared its 5th grade waitlist so aiming for a Deal feeder is not preposterous.  None of these options are guaranteed of course so moving in bounds for Deal or outside of DC or going to private school are the fall back options.  As I mentioned, this whole thread about comparing SH to Deal is largely hypothetical because most folks on the hill can’t get into Deal or won’t be willing to travel for it.  If the OP made clear they were asking this question from the perspective of deciding whether to move in bounds for Deal rather than stay in bounds for SH than that would have been better to specify and people would have chimed in with other considerations.[/quote]

who is driving their kid from the Hill to Lafayette? That’s a terrible solution. [/quote]

Would it surprise you to learn that there are a number of kids at HRCS who travel for upwards of an hour on multiple busses to escape their IB schools? It surprises you that someone would transit from Hill to Lafayette because you are thinking about this in the context of your finances and your life. If you did not have options to escape Eastern and you wanted your kid to have a guarantee at a quality MS and HS education then the short term pain is a long term investment in escaping generational poverty.[/quote]

+1, I know a bunch of people who commute (or hire a car service fir their kids) so they can attend schools like Stokes or LAMB. I even know a family with a 30-40 minute, 2x daily commute because they wanted a Montessori PK3 spot. Their IB isn’t even bad, just mediocre.

A lot of families in DC make surprising choices regarding schools.[/quote]

Ah yes, they hire a car service to escape generational poverty. Cool!

Yes families will do silly thinks like add 1.5 hrs a day in a car because they think there is something magical about Montessori preschool.  Usually this is the kind of family that moves to the suburbs for K. [/quote]

Yeah people make stupid choices all of the time. Committing that long for Montessori preschool is one of them. Will be even worse when they realize it’s limiting their second graders ability to do activities and extracurriculars because they’re spending so much time in the car.[/quote]

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