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[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]

I don't think most of the people on DCUM discussing this are facing a choice between "generational poverty" and schlepping their kid to Lafayette.  My impression is that the Hill parents that choose "HRCS" for elementary that are some distance away generally have one parent who is a SAH or works part-time, or a nanny that drives; or they realize that their IB elementary is fine.  By MS the kid takes the bus (or more likely, family has decamped for MoCo.)  [/quote]

Except I was replying to the person who asked, "[i]who is driving their kid from the Hill to Lafayette? That’s a terrible solution.[/i]" It would seem that you and the poster to whom I replied share a similar insular focus. There are people outside of the DCUM bubble. And (this one is gonna shock you) there are even people on DCUM who live paycheck to paycheck and would do almost anything to secure a path through HS. 
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