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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^p.s.: But I’m sure Payne is improving and that it’s trajectory is positive.  I just don’t buy that it’s all perfect now in upper grades.[/quote]

nobody said it was perfect. if you want your kids surrounded only by kids just like them, the Hill may not be for you.[/quote]

Space us the sanctimonious crap, PP.  Brent, Maury, SWS and Peabody are all pretty thoroughly gentrified/majority UMC and white these days, and Ludlow's getting there.

Brent's at-risk rate is something like 5% and Maury's is in the teens.  There are schools in upper NW, e.g. Stoddert, Hearst and Eaton, with higher percentages of poor minority kids.

Come on, nobody's buys in-boundary specifically for Payne. Payne is desirable for ECE (early childhood), OK for K-2nd, maybe 3rd, but on nobody's list for the upper grades.  IB Payne parents still try to lottery out en masse.[/quote]

You're making some huge, incorrect assumptions that are based on your prejudices about Payne and reflect your own values that your child  needs to be in a homogeneous environment.  If you actually look at Payne's 2018-2019 PARCC scores, you can see that over 1/4 of the kids get 4+ in each subject in each testing grade, and in fact in that year, the 5th grade did even better.  If you think your child's education will be harmed by being in the top quarter of their ELEMENTARY school classes, I don't know what to tell you.  As a parent of an older child I can say that this is truly the least of my concerns when it comes to schooling.  There's plenty of room for teachers to differentiate - for example there's no limit on how much or how well a kid can respond to writing assignments - and opportunities for math enrichment if you really, truly can't handle the regular curriculum alone.  Conversely, we are enrolled in one of those supposedly "good" Hill schools you list, and I can assure you that there is nothing magical about the teachers or their instruction that seems particularly advanced or differentiated.  (This is prior to DL.)  What really matters is how good the teacher is, at the end of the day.  [/quote]

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