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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][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]

Not that it matters to me, but have you looked at college acceptances for Arlington? Walls, JR, and Banneker perform at or above APS.[/quote]

[b]Yes, perform better than APS overall, but not the top tier in APS.  The top tier includes IB Diploma grads from Washington-Liberty with points totals in the high 30s-40s (dozens of kids kids annually) or the top 5% of the AP track crop at Yorktown and W-L. 
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DCPS just doesn't accelerate like NoVa. APS middle schools have bumped up their curriculum to include "intensified" 8th grade classes for all core subjects this year, with intensified classes for 7th grade rolling out next year. They're doing this to keep up with Fairfax acceleration, having lost ground in the last decade in admissions to UVA and College of William and Mary.

I'd kill to have those options at our DCPS middle school EotP.  My kid is bored at school. We're looking at Arlington if our eldest, 7th grader, doesn't crack Walls or Banneker next year. That seems likely. We didn't get in to BASIS, the Latins, DCI.[/quote]

I was referencing college acceptances and top DCPS students are outperforming top APS students. 38s and 41s are largely attending state schools that are already acceptable to DCPS students.[/quote]

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