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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think this is all good advice but a lot of it boils down to: if you are probably not going to stay somewhere past PK years, then you may as well go to your in bound. I think people like it this year. We were scared away from Bunker and the other DCPS in the neighborhood, but now I'm more aware that people are dissatisfied with a lot of charters beyond PK-K years as well. [b]Those include: SSMA, CMI, Bridges, maybe Sela, Breakthrough. [/b]So, if you're likely to want to trade up anyways, may as well walk to school for a couple of years first. In other words, charters are not always better!!! However there is one elephant in the room which is that our DCPS often has zero white kids and probably zero gentrifiers. And by zero I really do mean zero.[/quote]

I agree with this PP, except I think this is a little unfair. SSMA is going down in flames, CMI is falling steadily, Bridges is as stable as it's always been (fine to good for pre-k, weak after that), but I've heard nothing but really positive things about Sela and Breakthrough. Sela has amazing scores and is not competitive, and Breakthrough's scores are a little weak, but I think that's common for a Montessori at first since the methodology is so different. [/quote]

I only included Sela and Breakthrough because I think parents do not tend to stay but look to lottery out for various reasons as the kids get older. I could be wrong. [/quote]

Really? I hear Breakthrough parents saying the "done with the lottery now" stuff, but who knows whether that's just lip service and they're still secretly playing the lottery.[/quote][/quote]

Sela has 80% retention - this is decent, actually. [/quote]

For folks that aren't Spanish or bust and just want a "bilingual for the brain benefits" option, Sela is a hidden gem. It's our back pocket option if we are still not lottery winners by 1st grade.[/quote]

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