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[quote=Anonymous]My approach in DC has been to play it year by year, and know that looking a year ahead was the best approach. We've done a bit of everything. Charter early ed, DCPS, and private, and both east and west of the park.

You'll see people who have the means making decisions each year to stay or go, and at least in our experience this started to ramp up in 2nd grade. (We stayed through 5th and then transferred to private for middle school.)

Part of it also depends on your public. Size of classes, whether there are classroom supports, whether the arts are offered or have been cut. A lot of this boils down to how active the PTA is (and how much money they raise and are able to subsidize certain areas. It makes me angry, but we saw clear differences in what a school could offer in NW DC.) And part of it depends on your kid--how outgoing or easy going, how well they can navigate larger schools . And lastly, part of it is parenting. Communication from the public schools gets worse the higher up in grades you go, and it grew frustrating when even the teachers didn't seem to know what was going on. 
But we have friends whose kids have gone straight through DCPS--happy, well-adjusted, thrived in college, and now doing well. And friends who've had kids in private who are messes on the other side. 
All that to say, you have time and don't have to decide now. You're smart to start thinking and watching, while also keeping in mind that public might work for you for longer than you think. In short, when it was time to change, we knew.[/quote]

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