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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most parents who rave about Brent are in the younger grades.  The upper grades experience still isn't too hot, and Young remains a control freak, pass-the-buck kind of leader.  Most parents need a couple years before wising up to the fact that if you go to him with an issue of concern to your family, he'll pretends to listen, talk the talk, then ignore you.  The high SES SWS 3rd grade parents are a happier crew than the high SES Brent 3rd-4th grade parents - ask around.  The lovely Brent Registrar won't stick around for much longer, and she's his Girl Friday.  The coming SY will be Young's 5th at Brent, so who knows how much longer he'll bang on.

Few middle-class or in-boundary kids stay at Brent for 5th (one white kid this year) and I'm guessing that the same will be true at SWS.

You can debate Reggio and IEL issues on DCUM until you're blue in the face, but without strong, caring leadership, things don't tend to work out in the upper grades in DCPS, even with the "favorable" demographics you find at both.  If you doubt this, talk to one of the many 3rd grade families who hit the road from Brent in 2013, after a tough year when a strong, longtime K teacher Young was trying to push out got landed with 3rd grade.  Most of of these families had started in ECE.

I'd head to SWS.

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This is fair.  Except, I'd argue more parents will stay for 5th.  There will be a big "PEELING OFF" (sorry couldn't resist) of younger sibs to Latin/Basis but if oldest sibs don't win the lottery, I'd bet they'll stick around and try their hand at S-H (many of them have address feeder rights.)  I'd bet $10K there will be more than one white kid in 5th. [/quote]

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