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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^ Be careful what you wish for if "diversity" means more low-SES kids who struggle, fewer involved parents, and a PTA that can't raise nearly as much as those at Maury and Brent (six figures).  I still expect a city-wide lottery to deliver a lesser product than a neighborhood school would've (explaining why we turned down 2 Rivers).  Many of those cool construction toys were paid for by IB Cluster parents.

We've lost a good many neighbors in the Brent District over the years, mostly parents worried about what would happen in grades 3-5. They might have stayed for the advanced math Principal Young is arranging for the fall, and all the resources the school has now, from Chinese instruction to a dozen smart boards, to big plasma TVs in almost every classroom, to a stronger teaching staff every year.

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Ummm, picking up on the prior posting, Two Rivers Elementary actually outscores Brent, so it's a little hard to figure out what you're talking about.  And if you omit both 5th grades from the comparison, the Two Rivers scores are even higher than Brent's, as their 5th grade scores drop as a significant number of strong students leave for Latin and get replaced by new students.  Do your homework before you start pontificating.  There are definitely challenges to a citywide pull, but it's just racist and class-ist to claim that you need a neighborhood preference for Capitol Hill to have a successful, high-testing school.
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good point.  we're an SWS familiy that also looked at 2R (from the wrong end of the waitlist) and concluded it was one of the better public options EotP even if it was never in play for us.  It was equally out of reach as Brent for early elementary.[/quote]

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