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[quote=Anonymous]Oh I agree that ITDS is cult-y, especially for ECE, and it annoys me so much. The people who have never attended any other school tend to be all-in, and the people who came in from elsewhere tend to roll their eyes. But it's just not quite as dysfunctional as TR and I think it's due to a lot of small factors adding up. I agree there's zero accountability from the PCSB, but ITDS has, for whatever reason, solid leadership in place at the moment. Who knows what the future will hold.

The middle school at ITDS is okay-- I would rather my DCs got into Latin, but they didn't, and I prefer ITDS over BASIS and SH for my specific kids for various reasons, so we stay. As long as the application high school results are solid, people are moderately content with it-- there's a lot of talk about well, we don't have a better option. There are some people who feel their child really does need a small school for middle school, who are very much devoted to it. I think maybe TR middle school was too big to provide that small-school feel? Not everyone wants that, but those who want it do really want it.

Re preschool attrition, I think TR does have some people who actually want to be at LT or Peabody or Maury or a different charter, but didn't get in so they're at TR but will leave. ITDS doesn't have any schools in the immediate environs that don't accept all IB preschoolers-- I suppose the nearest ones would be LT and Maury. So there's less of that built-in attrition. It used to be that the big K class size expansion at MV P St always drew some ITDS preschoolers away, but that's much less of a thing lately. [/quote]

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