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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Brent is a school full of rich white kids yet the scores are mediocre. There is also no middle school path. I would not listen to anyone that tells you to rely on Basis/Latin as those schools will be hard to get into by the time your LO reaches middle. For the same price or cheaper, you can move in Deal feeder. If you insist, I would pick LT for the diversity and better scores.[/quote]

Greater "diversity" at LT than Brent?  If you mean more low-income AA kids proportionately, yes, of course.  If you mean more socioeconomic, international and racial diversity, absolutely not.

My kid's class at Brent has four or five AA kids, several kids of Asian descent (one of whom speaks beautiful Chinese), a Latina (who speaks Spanish at home), and several European kids (who speak European languages at home; their parents work for international organizations with DC HQs, e.g. the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund).  In LT for ECE, we didn't see that sort of diversity, far from it.

Who cares about the silly test scores?  In-boundary parents vote with their feet: Brent is more than half in-boundary, while LT is around 20%.

LT doesn't really have a MS path either, unless you're OK with Stuart Hobson (with a student body that's less than 10% high SES/white in a catchment area that's at least two-third high SES/white in 2015).

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I find Brent parents intriguing.  They vacillate between being upset that they don't feed into SH and taking shots at SH.  I think the overarching mentality seems to be that SH isn't a good school, but they should let Brent feed into it because just having Brent would make it better.  And then some Brent parents speak of Latin and Basis as if they have a birthright to those schools. But here's what I find interesting: as Maury has approached or matched Brent and as LT has come up strong and JO has started to move in the right direction, Brent parents seem almost threatened.  And that makes no sense to me.  Why wouldn't a stronger school system benefit everyone?  What's the thought process?  You like being the only option?  That feels good to you?  Or is it that if LT and JO (and hopefully Watkins) continue along their trajectories that SH will become a strong MS option, which will make you feel somehow less special?

Seriously, help me out here.  Why would Brent parents hate on other schools.  I know others hate on Brent out of jealousy, that makes sense to me.  But what's the Brent though process?  Is it a childish reflex that "s/he hit me first?[/quote]

You're projecting.  I suppose it's possible that some who recently paid $1MM+ to be IB for Brent might harbor some sense of smugness or superiority but , to be perfectly honest, I can't recall hearing either Ludlow or JO Wilson being discussed by Brent parents except in passing, such as whether they are good options for PK.  I doubt most even know where these schools are located.  I'll confess that I have only a vague idea in terms of orientation from Union Station.  So, from my limited perspective, Brent parents aren't running around saying terrible things about other Hill schools as the topic isn't that interesting and they're not on our collective radar screens.
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+1.  I only associate with Brent parents so while I know there are other schools on the Hill, I only keep track of the names so I know who to avoid.  [/quote]

You're good enough, smart enough, and doggone it people like you.  Feel better now?[/quote]

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