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Well, guess what? SWS has only been an early ed program so far. There haven't been many years of upper grades at a lot of these schools so far, so I'll guess we'll have to wait and see. You could just as easily say that parents at Brent are "barely hanging on," since they don't have a middle school program to feed to. Oh wait, they've started to feed to...citywide programs like Latin and Basis.[/quote]

At this juncture in history, you can't have a great DC public school above early ed without a neighborhood feed.  You can certainly have an OK one--a Logan Montessori,or an Oyster, or a Yu Ying--but that's it with this mayor and this chancellor.  When you visit JKLM, or Brent, you get it - you see the extra stuff they have and the high-end playgrounds.  You hear PTA parents talking like human resource consultants, vetting this admin and that teacher or aide.  You learn about community members without children supporting the schools in various ways partly to give their property values a boost.

As a Brent parent who started at SWS (and donated many construction toys) I can't see myself "barely hanging on" through 5th grade.  We plan to go strong to the end, at least if Brent keeps on teaching 6th grade math, then private, like other parents.  Some of us aren't going to be satisfied with Latin (almost no MS ability grouping) or BASIS (weak facilities) but we'll stick with our IB ES.

SWS could be another Brent or Maury with a boundary, LT's would have done it, but not without.

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