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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We were at Brent, but remember this was 5-6 years ago. I know it has changed a lot since then. I don't know what the prep is like now. Now having one who has attended WOTP for years there was a huge gap between Brent and where we are now academically. I can't qualify it exactly but I felt like at Brent everything took a lot of effort but at our WOTP school it is sort of like a well oiled machine if that makes any sense. I would say the community feel of the schools were very similar though. I think that is is really 4th and 5th grade that are a lot different.  Not only the math but again, the writing.  My 5th grader does a lot of writing of rough drafts that are thoroughly torn apart and rewritten many times.  I can't remember by other ones at Brent doing much writing-- or they did typical 5th grade writing. I think a big driver is they know the kids are going to Deal and what Deal expects. [/quote]

I think that alignment between feeder elementary and feeder middle schools is so great, and I wish all of DC could benefit from that.

That's one of the downsides of all this choice - when you've got kids headed to a variety of MS or HS, the previous school can't prep them because there's no way to prep kids for 5-10 different schools when all of them have their own particular 'niche.'

Growing up, it was clear that my elementary, middle and high schools were all on the same page because they were able to track kids across different ES into MS and then across different MS into HS.  How great would that be for DC kids, but it would require standardizing across schools - maybe this is something the cross sector task force could address.[/quote]

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