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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Nonsense that your kid will be with "much higher performing peers all the way thru elementary" if you move from DC to a suburban school rather than EotP, other than perhaps in the case of super-duper test-in GT programs in MoCo and Fairfax for 4th and 5th grades (very hard to crack).  Total BS where Brent, Maury, SWS and even Ludlow Taylor, Tyler Spanish Immersion and Watkins are concerned.  My kids have not been short on seriously high-performing peers in DCPS EotP all the way through elementary, UMC kids who do math two grade levels ahead and read all the Harry Potter books in 2nd or 3rd grade.

We looked at public elementary schools in MoCo and Northern VA where at-risk percentages were higher, sometimes a lot higher, than at our DCPS ES EotP.  In these suburban schools, we saw classes where a single teacher taught as many as 30 kids. We've never had more than around 23 students in any DCPS ES class for our kids, generally with two teachers in the room at least half the day.  Just not worth moving to the burbs for ES anymore.[/quote]

Ok ... but your kids will get older, and they will have to go to MS, and all your "high performing peers" in elementary school will go to Basis, Latin, or move to NW or MoCo. [/quote]

NP but I don’t think MoCo schools have the same shine they used to for DCPS parents.  The schools just aren’t that impressive, it’s the SES of those schools that makes them still have the reputation they have.  [/quote]

Get back to me when the alternative is your IB MS with the majority of kids score 1s and 2s on PARCC! Then we'll see what kind of shine MoCo has.

I don't deny that staying in your "wonderful Title I EOTP elementary" is appealing; we certainly did it. But I'm now exactly in the situation you are brushing off as NBD and I'm here to tell you that it actually is a big deal.  I'm not sure if I would have changed our decisions, but it is a really big deal to have to move when your kid is in MS. 
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The thing about it, though, is that a lot of people move.  It's not like if we had stayed at our IB, all of DD's friends would be there too.  All of her friends were leaving.  Some of them went with her to the new school.  I'm not saying it's a small school, but I'd look at it as if you attended a school that didn't have a specific middle school feeder.  You just have to accept that the band is breaking up.[/quote]

Right. The point is - if you move to a neighborhood where the kids go to their IB MS and HS, then more of a chance of continuing friendships and less disruption.  [/quote]

Well sure, but I just don't think it's that big a deal.  People send their kids to different schools all the time.  What do you think going to boarding school is like, you know basically nobody and can't even see your old friends on the weekends.[/quote]

I ... don't think there's any useful comparison between boarding school and the general MC/UMC public school pathways in this area.  Yes people send their kids to different schools all the time; but the common notion on DCUM that "you can just move if MS doesn't work" is MUCH more difficult than it sounds when you have a 2 year old.  [/quote]

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