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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]But what if BASIS isn't an option?  Fact is, almost half the Hill 4th grade families who put their name in the hat for BASIS over the winter are still on the BASIS WL.

It's all pie in the sky silliness anyway.  DCPS has no plans to create some sort of middle school STEM test-in program EotP, at Jefferson or anywhere else.  Moreover, they're under no pressure to do so, from Ward 6 or anywhere else.

The great majority of Hill parents vote with kids in DCPS elementary schools vote their feet from DCPS between around 3rd and 6th grades.  That's the way things will stay for at least a decade.  End of story.

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I feel like this thread keeps cycling back to the same few conversations - and this one has been discussed before. If you have lived in/have had kids in schools for the past 10-15 years, you would have noticed significant changes in the DCPS elementary school in boundary enrollment, as well as in the middle schools. Far more kids are staying for upper elementary at their DCPS schools, and many of these families have already completed a year + at their DCPS middle school, or are enrolled for the fall. Is it all parents, no. Some parents will continue to opt for private, move, or travel for charters. But to say things will stay the same for the next decade is also not accurate.

I feel like school discussions in DC are a microcosm of political bubbles in this country. People come on here saying 'everybody I know does x', or ' I don't know anybody who has gone to 'y'', etc - people are often surrounded by those who have made similar choices that they have, it is hard for them to see that there are many many families that are making different choices than they are, and have different perspectives or priorities.[/quote]

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