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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]BS has great academics. There is a wide range of students at BS. They are also undergoing a curriculum update. People live to bad mouth this school. I think there are many in the neighborhood who are uncomfortable with DCPS but feel the need to trash BS to make themselves feel better about sending their kids to DCPS.[/quote]

Yeah. Not so much. [/quote]

Then why the need to trash a school your child doesn't attend.[/quote]

I'm not trashing Blessed Sacrament; my "not so much" comment was directed at your assertion that there are so "many" people in CCDC who really wanted to send kids to BS for the "great academics" but instead got the booby prize of Lafayette/Murch and Deal.

Let's stipulate that most of the kids in 20015 are white (it's something like 85% or more, I forget the Census numbers from 2010).

White children in the District of Columbia score higher than[i] any other white children in the US [/i]on the NAEP tests that all 4th and 8th graders take nationwide.  That would include those Murch and Lafayette DCPS kids who live near BS.   I don't think they're as "uncomfortable" with their education as you imagine.

They're killing it.   [/quote]
Killing it? That might be a bit of an exaggeration. When I look around my CCDC neighborhood I see many families choosing other than DCPS. Small sample, yes, but on my street of about 20 home, only two send or have sent kids to public. I think just about every private is represented (CES Jewish Day School, WES, Maret, Sidwell, Beauvoir, etc. and Blessed Sacrament.)
 So while DCPS has made major improvements I think it is fair to say many are not willing to risk it if there are other options – I am one of those.
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Really.  So the fact that dcps white kids (only) score the highest IN THE ENTIRE USA  on a reading & math test, beating out white kids in every single other state -- including our good friends next door in vaunted MD and VA --  is unpersuasive to you.   It suggests "risk"iness, even!

All right then, there's no budging you. I have a hunch you're one of the cliquey 3rd generation BS blonde moms with a sporty ponytail. Who never once considered public school in any form. Not your safe happy clubby familiar place.  [/quote]

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