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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Lady, save us your-holier/longer-than-thou screed. From what I've seen in the neighborhood, most parents who are deeply engaged in supporting DCPS CH schools burn out 5, 6 maybe 7 or 8 years in. They become empty suits at these schools. Hardly anybody can sustain the level of commitment demanded for more than a decade. The phenomenon of families bolting to Washington Latin and/or BASIS in their droves can be partially explained by the burnout factor: parents start to crave a MS/HS school that works without their constant vigilance and involvement.[/quote] This. It's also why there are many families like mine who move from CH and other nice areas without good schools to UNW, but very few families with school-aged kids who move from UNW to CH and other areas without good schools. We were at a charter but it's the same thing. We were sick of the constant effort to try to grow a good school, and just wanted to send our kids to schools that are already good. This became even more important as our oldest approached MS and we had serious concerns about the MS/HS it fed into. Now that we're out of it, we realize even more how exhausting and often unfruitful it was. If I had a do over I wouldn't have even tried this route and would have moved into a good school zone prior to kindergarten.[/quote]
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