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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, I’m not familiar with DCI, but am intimately acquainted with Stuart-Hobson since I work there. Like most middle schools, it has its challenges (hallway transitions can be noisy, DCPS mandates don’t always make sense) but it’s a solid school with a large cohort of high-performing kids and increasing buy-in from families who live in boundary.

Off the top of my head, I can think of dozens of girls at Stuart-Hobson who sound similar to your daughter, and they are having good experiences at the school. Advanced course offerings in math, award-winning extracurricular activities, an incredible school library, and most importantly, solid teachers with classroom management experience.

However, Stuart-Hobson can’t compete with DCI when it comes to language offerings, so I w[/quote]

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So I would go for DCI if she wants to continue advancing in her second language. [/quote]

DCI has way more advance offerings in math.  SH math is not advance, it’s basically grade level.  [/quote]

This is not true. The math at Stuart Hobson is the lowest, most remedial math track possible for middle school. When you leave for high school your child will be de facto placed in the lowest and slowest math track. [/quote]

It would be helpful if you explained why instead of just repeating the same claim over and over again. What makes it so low? What level are they teaching and why is this bad/wrong? What should they be doing? Do other DCPS middles do it differently? [/quote]

Still waiting for the angry anti-SH poster to answer these questions. [/quote]

Cluster parent and new thread poster here. They can't, all they can do is repeat the same B.S. over and over because they have an insanely fragile ego. It seems that their self-worth is defined by them being a "better than" and as such they cannot handle that SH is on an upswing. The frequency and sometimes manic construction of the posts show a truly unhealthy obsession with it. No one is saying SH is rivaling one of the Big Three privates, but it's becoming a very solid neighborhood MS option, and there is real excitement about that. We know several high-performing families enrolled for next year. It has to be a sad existence where you are constantly going out of your way to repeatedly inject unwarranted and often false negativity.[/quote]

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