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[quote=Anonymous]Oh right, consider other options, like shopping for 800K+ 3-bedroom homes in Upper NW, or around Brent (where 3rd-5th graders who are advanced at math will be able to loop up a grade in the fall).

Don't forget to hand your PTA at least $800 annually - you don't want to come off as a free rider when making use of the parent-hired math teacher.

A relatively cheap option would be a 700K house IB for the Cluster - as a PP mentioned, Watkins has started pulling out kids.  Failing that, on a tight budget, lottery into an immersion charter where around 3 kids speak the target language at home.  Be sure to take a moment to celebrate diversity once you get there (hint: look around, note that at least half the kids are black and cheer, loudly, mandatory).

Later, the best you can do is Deal, BASIS or Latin (but you know this already).  They offer advanced math, but middling options for almost every other subject.  Pretend not to mind that kids can't read/count/test proficient are dispatched to the very same English, foreign language, science and social studies classes as those who score advanced on the DC-CAS (and attend Johns Hopkins gifted camps).

Why the allergy to excellence despite a decade of galloping gentrification?  Those who care, with the kids with the goods, still tend to move, or go private.  Nobody much left to lobby by the teenage years.

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