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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's ideological to pretend that the Maury kids who go to Eliot-Hine, and the Brent kids who go on to Jefferson Academy, aren't dealing with subpar conditions for learning.  These are not good middle schools.  These parents are also white and liberal. Show me the conservative whites, the East Asian immigrant parents, the UMC AA and Latino parents etc. using these middle schools.  We're looking for real diversity at the middle school level.

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Lol.  The real commonality among the "new" families sending kids to EH is that they are all very smart, involved, and not freaked out about their kid having slightly "subpar" conditions.  EH offers the basic academic curriculum (math etc) and these families place more of a priority on community and lifestyle than sweating their 11 year old's academics.  yes this involves a certain amount of privilege, but at the end of the day, I see very little evidence that the academics at EH are subpar to my MS in the 90s, and I seemed to do ok, so ... [/quote]

Let’s be real. The actual commonality is they struck out in the lottery two years in a row. [/quote]

NP but we struck out in the MS lottery 2x (for 5th and 6th) and so will be going to our IB as there are no other choices. We will fight to make it the best year possible for our rising 6th grader and evaluate how things are going in Nov, which will still give us time to plan for the next school year if need be.[/quote]

No other choices in the public system?  Not Inspired Teaching, CH Montessori or Two Rivers?  Your lottery choices were too narrow?  You couldn't rent a place in VA?  [/quote]

DP.  At this point, I would put EH either on par or better than those three options.  I'm not impressed with Two Rivers academics at all, and nobody has anything great to say about CHM MS either.  ITS seems ok but more of a commute, for how much of an improvement over EH?  Not to be cynical but a lot will depend on how the EH PARCC scores look this year ... [/quote]

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