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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is my first reply on this thread but I think it is totally rational for parents to jump ship on a school if they think the middle school
Prospects are no good and not likely to get better. Pp mentions private school as an option. It is not an option for us with our nonprofit salaries (and skillsets).[/quote]

Sure.  But not to advocate it as some sort of normative decision for parents of a child in kindergarten.  I wish I had a nickel for every comment on DCUM where it was held up as axiomatic that you have to leave for the 'burbs now, while your child is 3, because middle-school may be a problem.  Not rational.[/quote]
But it has been a "normative" decision for Capitol Hill parents to leave elementary schools well before fifth grade on account of weak middle schools.  In the 70s Cap Hill students headed to NW or elsewhere for greener pastures, and it is still happening today.  It may be delayed a year or two, but the exodus is still happening.  There is no reason to assume Ward Six will have a critical mass of proficient students or that Ward Six will have a viable middle class middle school outside of the cluster for three years, and maybe longer.  Watkins and Brent are the only schools with a critical mass in the testing grades, and their cohorts are not headed to Eliot Hine or Jefferson.

Moving to the burbs is a cautionary reference for those who might get too attached to the wonderfulness that is life with kids on the Hill.  Things are going fine, and your kids are making friends, but then the reality of crappy middle schools becomes more than some vague point in the distance.  Even if you manage to hang on with Latin or whatever, it's not the cozy little bubble that is imagined and expectations need to be adjusted.  It sucks.[/quote]

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