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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Playing the lottery is not elitist.  Believing that a title 1 school could never possibly be any good is.  I hear a lot of the only middle schools in DC that are any good at all and should ever be considered are Deal, Hardy, Latin, Basis, and DCI.[/quote]

On the evidence we have, that list of middle schools are the only good middle schools in DC… and “good” is stretching it[/quote]

There is some proportion of parents for whom the "good enough" threshold only includes these schools. Could be a variety of things -- rigorous science classes, the option for very advanced math, reading full novels (i guess this one is sadly up for debate). I am one.[/quote]

I’m not sure if any DCPS middles have advanced science. I do know that some not on this list offer very advanced math (assuming that means geometry in 8th) and are requiring students to read full novels. [/quote]

Very advanced math to me means Algebra 2 by 8th, which Deal, BASIS and DCI do. not sure about Hardy and Latin, but I'm positive there is no other middle school that offers it.

(advanced math would be Geometry by 8th, and the standard path would be Algebra by 8th. Anything less than that is completely inappropriate for a college-bound kid).

Science education at DCPS is terrible through the end of middle school. BASIS and Latin both do it well, as evidenced by their Science CAPE scores.

These are things that start to matter to parents who have high expectations for their kids. As someone said earlier, learning less starts to compound and is harder to correct as the kids get older. [/quote]

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