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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]With it being increasingly difficult to get into Latin or BASIS, and with increased demand as more UMC families hit middle school, and with all the uncertainty around selective high school admissions, it seems like there would be a lot of interest in a new charter middle and/or high school whose value prop was differentiation/advanced classes. I know there's Latin Cooper. But are there not more attempts at this because they wouldn't get approved, or because it's very difficult to get the real estate, or something else? Thank you. [/quote]

Very simple--DC probably has the highest percentage of kids in private schools in the country. Until privates become too cost prohibitive, I really don't think the middle and high school landscape will change. It's ingrained in the culture vs demanding something better. I don't think anywhere else in the country is like this. Pretty sad... [/quote]

You’ve got it backwards. Plenty of people either move or go private because of the lack of rigor for advanced students. We want to use DCPS but outside of Latin or Hardy (moving inbound for $1m more than our current home) the options aren’t there. Our IB is great but not for our academically advanced child. We have been supplementing but it makes more financial sense to send them to private for middle school.[/quote]

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