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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You're painting with too broad a brush.  You absolutely get a cohort of bright kids at the strongest DC public charter middle school programs these days.  The list is growing, and now includes Deal, Stuart Hobson, Hardy, Wash Latin, BASIS, DCI, Adams and possibly Two Rivers, Capitol City, Logan Montessori, Inspired Teaching and CMI.

What you don't get is a consistent push for kids who can work high above grade level to do so, other than at BASIS for math.

You also don't get great teaching across the board, strong writing instruction, or much individualized attention. Neither do you find a particularly rich humanities curriculum anywhere, or strong instruction in modern languages outside Adams.  I speak two of the languages taught at DCI fluently, have volunteered there several times recently to work with the most &quot;advanced&quot; students studying both. I wasn't remotely impressed after all those years of immersion study.

In view of the above, many high SES parents are OK with getting the basics, or more, from one of the schools on the list and paying to supplement.  Some pay to supplement a little, others go all out.  The practice becomes less strange or unusual as time goes on in the City. DC parents dig in to avoid moving to Fairfax or MoCo for GT programs to get what they're looking for, or clobbering their retirement and college savings by paving for tony privates, where they may not like the cocoon arrangement anyway.  [/quote]

almost all the schools you named are charters, [b]some very very difficult to get into[/b].  Or you need a million dollars to buy in woodly park or tenley town.[/quote]

Not at the late es or middle school level.[/quote]

For 18-19:

Latin offered 90 seats at 5th.

BASIS offers 120 seats at 5th.

Cap City offers 50 seats at 5th

DCI offered &lt;30 at 6th for all languages

Adams offered 0 seats for 6th in the initial lottery (9 WL offers for 6th by Aug but none for monolingual English speakers)

Hardy offered 15 seats for 6th in initial lottery (57 WL offers by Aug)

2 Rivers offered 7 seats for 5th; 2 seats for 6th

IT offered 12 seats for 5th; 10 seats for 6th

CMI offered 6 seats for 6th

Logan offered 16 seats for 6th

SH offered 5 seats for 6th

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