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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]High school applications for the current seniors were due during January of the second virtual year and there was no end in sight with DCPS.  If you remember, the DC private schools were back in school, the rest of the country was back in school, and yet DCPS was still virtual--again with no end in sight.  And high school was looming in the fall for this grade.

Everyone who could applied to private high school.  The top privates took the brightest DCPS kids.  Many others did not get a private spot. For every Deal kid I knew who got a Sidwell /GDS/NCS spot there were 2 who applied but were not admitted.

As such, this class at JR was stripped of most of it's top brain power.

It's fascinating to see this play out almost 4 years later.

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I believe everything you say of course but also want to point out that the more liberal independent schools, including sidwell where my high schooler was at the time, weren’t in person during that fall, either.  We were pissed.

I will say that the distance learning was likely better quality but yeah, we were still sitting on our couches without a concrete plan for in person (my own kid went back ionly in April of 21, so a year of distance)[/quote]

DCPS HS were actually virtual all of 2020-2021 I believe, or only partially back starting in April 2021. A family in DCPS in December 2020 (when private school applications are being submitted) would have every reason to try to bail if possible given the disgraceful performance of the WTU in November 2020 (going on strike to keep IEP kids out of school).

DCPS schools partially reopened in April 2021 (with a few select kids back a bit earlier) but it was entirely based on the discretion of the the principal how many kids could come back. I believe (but others should correct me) that DCPS MS and HS did *not* reopen mosrly in person in April 2021 and continued to do a variety of hybrid/virtual all year for most kids. Elementary schools where parents were more keen to get kids in person (generally higher income) had more kids in person FT.

So yeah, fed up parents of Deal middle schoolers in Dec 2020 had every reason to apply to privates. I greatly greatly wish I had seen the writing on the wall and gotten more support for my kid at that point. [/quote]

Deal was entirely virtual for the 2022-2021 school year (the year the current seniors applied to high school). 
Their "partial re-opening" in April 2021 was to allow a select cohort of kids the opportunity to come to school for 2 hours per week to watch online lectures from their personal computer. 
This is not a joke.  IT WAS THAT BAD.

Meanwhile my second kid was at NCS and was attending school in person that entire year.  [/quote]

Yeah that’s what I remember - elementary schools came back FT in person for a lot of kids in April 2021 but MS and HS did not. What where they thinking, that covid was more dangerous for older kids, or that they could handle virtual better?

My sibling’s kids in private were back in person full time in fall 2020. [/quote]

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