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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think sometimes you have to sit back and think about your end goal.  People have different goals- and I am not judging anyone for their goals.  That being said, my family goals include raising our kids with a lot of diversity, helping them pursue a variety of interests, ensuring academics are a healthy priority, and sending them to a 4 year public college.  Considering those goals- we think DC is sufficient. Our kids are neurotypical, advanced but not dramatically so, athletic but not bound for college play, etc.  Essentially, we think they are wonderful but also fairly average for upper middle class white children.  Priorities for you will be different based on your children and your family goals/values.

Bottom line- your individual needs, goals, and values are extremely important to this decision making process- and without knowing all that, it is hard to say what school would best fit.  If your family is similar to mine, fairly average with fairly average goals- you are probably fine wherever you choose.[/quote]

Just wanted to say, I love this comment! Thank you! Such a great perspective[/quote]

+1.

I think the comments re DC neighbors regularly moving for schools and trying to lottery into a better path year after year are about parts of DC outside the Deal/Hardy/Wilson boundary and that is a separate set of issues.  There are also families that go private after ES or MS but I think that would happen in either jurisdiction as well.

As parent of two very bright, mostly neurotypical kids I would agree with the above, we are in the Deal/Wilson boundary. I have one at SWW and a Deal 8th grader that may or may not go to Wilson next year but will be going to a DC public and I will be fine with Wilson if that is what happens.  My high schooler is on track for a top 10-30 school (National University or SLAC, we do not know which type of school she will choose) if that is what she wants.  Probably not top 10/Ivy because they are reaches for everyone, I am not sure they are the right fit for her, and she has not put in the extra extra curreiculars that appear to be necessary for that but she would not have at a MoCo high school or a private either.

DH and I have lived in DC since before we were married.  We moved to our current house when I was first pregnant for the schools.  I expected at the time that we would move by middle school.  We love our nieghborhood and our neighbors.  Some of their kids go to public, some go to private and some even make different choices with different kids within the same family.

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