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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The problem is that, when it comes to in-bounds by-right schools on the Hill that kids can walk to and go to school with their neighbors, it breaks down to some great ES options, a few mediocre at best MS options, and no viable HS option.

So, your choices are:

- Move
- lottery
- Private

The obvious upside to lottery or private is that you don't have to move.  But the downside of lottery is the uncertainty (and that none of the lottery schools are better than what you'd find in a strong public off the Hill) and the downside of private is $$ and perhaps culture depending on your views on that.

The upside to moving is that you move where you want your kid to go to school and you have instant community and a neighborhood school that they can ideally walk to, and attend through 12th.  The downside is uprooting and in many cases, $$.

Everyone is going to value these factors differently.  And different choices will be different for different famiiles.   But these are the factors to consider.  [/quote]

There's another option, homeschool for middle school.  We have Hill neighbors who homeschooled two teens for 7th and 8th grades, after bailing from DCI. They hired a variety of tutors to help, before sending their kids to parochial high schools (St. John's, St. Anselm's).  [/quote]

I bet those kids are REALLY well adjusted.[/quote]

DP (I'm one of the people who is planning to move because I can't deal with the lack of a secure path) but I think this is rude and inaccurate. I don't get the hate on homeschooling. When schools are bad or uneven, or just not meeting your kid's needs, I don't see what the issue is with homeschooling for a year or two until you can find a better spot for them. I know a couple families who have done this (not in DC) and it was definitely the right choice for them. And they aren't religious fundamentalists or anti-vaxxers or any of the fringe stuff people associate with homeschoolers.

Look, if schools were all universally good and we lived in a culture that really valued public education, I can see thinking homeschool is off. But it's weird to have that attitude on a thread where the premise is literally "hey, fellow CH families, what's your plan for dealing with the mishmash clusterf*** that is our public school options on the Hill." I don't see how homeschooling for a couple years is somehow crazier (or worse for kids) than playing the lottery every year for 8 years, or moving, or commuting to a school across town, or all they myriad of other solutions people have mentioned, not ONE of which is "I will send my children to their inbound public schools on the Hill through high school graduation."[/quote]

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