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[quote=Anonymous]OP, Janney is a good school.  It's not perfect; maybe it's not great; but it is a good school.  It is overcrowded for a reason.  Are there some over-the-top parents there?  Sure.  But you will find challenging parents at every school - they may not look like this weird characture of a Janney mom, but they are out there.  Is it a particularly diverse school?  No, not really.  But that is not the only measure of a good school, although it is certainly something to consider quite seriously - if you are choosing to live in DC, and to send your child to a DCPS, you ought to consider what that means to you.  It would be a great thing if Janney were more representative of the city as a whole, but it's not; and, at this point, I'm not sure how you change that.

The unfortunate thing about DCUM is that it quickly devolves into a slug fest.  Who knows the real motivations behind it, but it always does.  Janney is an easy target because it is a good school that is pretty much entirely IB, and, yes, there are some fabulously smug parents there.  But, please, not everyone there is like that.  I don't have a kid there now; I have never had a kid there; but, if I had it to do over again, I probably would try to send my kids to Janney.  Most of the kids and parents I have met from there have been nice, welcoming, reasonable, and with a solid grounding in reality.  You will find that in other schools as well, but I have found that to particularly be the case with those families.

I would think it would make more sense for everyone to focus their energies on improving or appreciating their own schools rather than spending all this time trying to knock down Janney.[/quote]

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