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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP. I’m not in DC but locally where I am private school HS admissions have become markedly harder over the past few years. There are a few things driving the change: a sharp increase in the number of kids applying in from public schools and a sharp decrease in the number of kids leaving private in 8th for public. So, more kids are applying for fewer spots.

I have an 8th grader in a K-12. In the years before Covid, there were always multiple kids who left in 8th to go to public. This year not a single kid is leaving. Last year, one left, but only because they moved out of area. It’s changing admissions. [/quote]

Agree there ARE fundamental changes.

Public schools and local/star/federal government screwed students with choosing faulty common core curriculum for k-8, having an AP arms race for high school, eliminating tests/ graded work in order to “close the achievement gaps,” and don’t build nicely sized districts but let them balloon up indefinitely and then mismanage huge budgets. 
No thanks. Maybe a single high school district can compete but otherwise nothing good for the masses trying to serve everything badly.

Then Covid. 1-2 years of 25% schooling in America. No thanks again. 
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I think Covid vastly accelerated the trend though. [/quote]

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