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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]we're a family that is "making do" with a good charter and while we're very happy, I often think about the alternative of moving. Most of the good public high schools in Arlington, FFX, and MoCo are 2K+ students, and are expected to get bigger. That affects getting the classes you want (35 APs means nothing if you can only get in your senior year), making the cut for sports teams, running for school government. Unless these districts are budgeting for building additional high schools soonish, not sure I see the advantage of my kid being 1 of 500+ competing for these "high octane" programs compared to what we have currently.

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We have close friends and relatives with teens in schools in Fairfax, Arlington and MoCo. The friends became our pals in our DCPS ES. It's clear to me that there really isn't any comparison between dysfunctional, low-capacity, ambition challenged DCPS and the high-capacity school systems in the burbs. For starters, those counties support advanced programs for ES and MS. They track academically in middle school in all core subjects by 7th grade. They also run serious test-in HS programs, mostly the school-within-a-school type. Parents in those school systems grumble on these threads because it's all relative - they haven't experienced DCPS middle or high school chaos and ad hocery.   [/quote]

Cool anecdote. You're wildly incorrect, but cool anecdote.[/quote]

NP. Wildly incorrect? Dream on.

In MoCo, Arlington and Fairfax, advanced middle school students can take honors (aka "intensified" or above-grade-level) classes in 7th and 8th grades in science, social studies, English and math. In DCPS, the best you can do are grade level middle school classes in core subjects, with advanced math at Deal, Hardy and maybe Hobson

Correct, no serious test-in HS programs in the DC public system. We don't have high octane high school programs because we don't have advanced elementary school or middle school programs. Can you make do with Walls, or J-R, or Latin, or DCI, or Banneker? Yes. Can these programs compete with what's offered at the better suburban high school programs? Definitely not.[/quote][/quote]

Not necessarily. Suburban high schools aren't known for shutting out high fliers from their most challenging classes, particularly not in IB Diploma programs. We've been shut out of too many classes at J-R enrolling too many students who can't handle the workload.  [/quote]

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