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[quote=Anonymous]Test-in ms programs may be pie in the sky, but couldn't we just have challenge for our kids?  My first made it through 5th at Watkins, not terribly challenged but OK because of some great teachers.  We lasted a year at S-H (after striking out in the 6th grade Latin lottery) without challenge, then switched to an excellent and almost affordable parochial school.  My second is at Brent (we were always IB, but not happy enough with where Brent was for our eldest, with a 7-year gap between the two).  He's getting more challenge at Brent than his older sibling did in the Cluster.  If that makes Brent the best school on the Hill, so be it.

Why the heck won't DCPS and DC charter (other than BASIS??) ability group for ms, other than for 8th grade algebra and maybe Spanish?  Honestly, my advanced kid was thrown into S-H classes with very disruptive housing project children (from Wards 6, 7 and 8) who could barely read.  What could the poor teachers do but focus on keeping the low-end kids from falling through the cracks?  The set up made me angry. And the parents telling me to go private because I couldn't find challenge for my kid while paying property tax on a 700K house made me equally angry.  I'm hoping for public middle school challenge for my second because we won't be able to afford parochial for the two kids coterminously, but don't expect it.  We may be MoCo bound, despite being active on Hill PTAs for years, sigh.

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