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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'd rather not malign a charter I basically like by naming it, one that saved us from a crappy IB school.  But I will acknowledge that the arrangement seems to slip a bit with every passing year.  The problems are mundane, rooted in the achievement and opportunity gap between low-SES and high-SES kids widening as time goes on.

We've done summer camps abroad for the last two summers, as well as Johns Hopkins CTY this summer, and have had a target language speaking au pair at home since PreK.  Hence, my kid is now so far ahead of most of the low-SES AA kids in the target language that he's getting bored, not just on immersion days but on English days.  The warm school community no longer gives me much of a boost.

Two of his high-SES buddies left for privates last year, a real blow to him.  It's as though we're holding a handful of sand, with grains slipping out as we go.  If we're on a slight downward trajectory in the middle ES grades, yikes, where will be by 12th grade at DCI?  I'm starting to eye WIS....
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Sounds like you have a super smart kid and maybe private is the way to go. I hope that we will see less of this attrition as parents of these bright and high-achieving kids choose public options.[/quote]

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