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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]As the PP you were quoting, no, we don’t regret it at all. (Though to be fair, I probably would have said something different when we were in the thick of it. I remember spendings hours and hours reading homeschool information sites that year.) My strong preference is to attend our neighborhood school, for logistical reasons, for social ones, and for idealistic ones. I’m glad that we had it for a few years, and I really wish we still had it now.

Given the current DC system, though, it felt too risky to give our neighborhood middle school a try. Most of the charters require commitment in 5th and don’t offer later entry points, so we couldn’t try out the local middle and see how things went. Plus, with everyone ELSE peeling off at 5th for charters and the neighborhood school filling in by lottery, the school lost much of its “neighborhood” character after that point anyway. And the local high school isn’t an option, so we would have taken on the risk of not getting into an application or lottery high school when the time came. We can’t afford private, so there’s no safety net there.

For what it’s worth, I think there are many other parents in our same position who would have loved to stick with neighborhood schools even despite a few drawbacks, [b]but the MS/HS/charter system seems set up to push people systematically in the other direction. Not intentionally on the part of DCPS, though I don’t know about the charter end. But systematically away all the same.[/b]
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The MS/US charter system is currently the only reason that middle class and UMC families use the public school system at all, since DCPS has failed to create another MS/HS pyramid  of comparable quality to Hardy/Deal/Wilson.  It is absolutely intentional on the part of DCPS.  One pyramid of demanding, highly educated parents is apparently all that DCPS wants to tolerate.[/quote]
And Hardy regressed last year, to the point where we weren't willing to send our rising 6th grader there, after his older brother's experience in 8th grade last year. [/quote]

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