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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To the Hill families who moved to NW to attend Deal for MS-- How did your kids handle the transition?  I'm asking because this is our back-up plan too.  How was the social transition?  Were there other Hill families that did the same?  How was the academic transition?  Did you find that your child's Hill DCPS elementary prepared them as well as the WOTP DCPS elementary schools?[/quote]

The social scene was the easy transition. My kids played in their old Hill sports teams for the first year after we moved. But at they made friends in the neighborhood and at school they moved away from that and now do everything in NW. There were a few other Hill kids there but I think that going to 6th is "new" for all kids. A lot of mixing goes on. My kids are friends with kids from all over NW now.

Academically they were behind especially in math but really bad in English. Deal is very demanding writing wise. Now having a 5th grader (for the first time) in a WOTP school I see how much more they work on writing in prep for Deal.

I have one at Wilson now and plenty of the kids we knew from the Hill are there too via Hardy. They don't even hang out in the same groups. I thought for sure they would drift back together but they all have their own friends now. [/quote]

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