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This.  We've been researching schools for DS and the choices really make us feel sick.  Far too many mediocre choices, desperate salespeople, smug incumbents, and the few schools that seem promising to us for less than $25k a year are unattainably competitive.

You people are total twits for wasting energy trying to figure out what schools he was clearly trying not to reference.  It doesn't matter, as your comments reveal they are clearly interchangeable.  I guess it's true that DC really has little appreciation for art / creativity.[/quote]

MOVE to whatever you consider an acceptable neighborhood (probably JKLM) and then put your kid in BASIS.  For now, shut up.  
You are a total twit for not doing the research before moving here and insulting the rest of us.

Everyone else here seems to know the deal, native or not.  Although if your kid is young I would point out that scientific studies show that learning a second language before the age of 6/7 alters the neurotransmitters in the brain so your dc will be able to acquire other languages later far more easily.  And if people are really right about these language immersion charters becoming better, for young kids I would consider it.  We bought our house based on the school even tho our only kid was not yet 2.  Market for houses is in your favor. But you are the twit for not figuring out the lay of the land before you needed to if it is so important to you.

PS TO ALL  the DC Parks and Recs had a pilot program a few years ago that would automatically get you in to a five day full day coop if you did the pilot as a younger child.  Teacher Ms. Adrian.  Awesome.  I know not everyone could do a coop but it would get you to turtle park with the folks who don't want to pay for private preschool....[/quote]

Responding to comment on my post.

Hi, 15+ year resident of DC here, not counting college.  I know DC backwards and forwards, so I'm not complaining about the neighborhood I chose to have children in -- not at all.  I'm related to the heartbreak of having to do the right thing, i.e. put our child in an economical integrated school that has serious disruptive elements, versus the safe route for our part of town (private).  Our kid is proving to be far more resilient than we would have guessed - yay! - but then again we were coddled by our parents in ways that ours is clearly not.   I simply relate to the writer's many levels of angst and admire the work it took to "go there".

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OK, fangirl/fanboy  :wink:

I don't get it though. The "right thing"? Are you saying you have the means to put your kid in private school but you are sending your kid to an economically diverse school out of some sense of moral obligation or superiority? Or wait, from your first post it looks like you have $25k/year to spend, but you don't think your kid can get into private school...
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