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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]

Not actually a good point as 2 Rivers is mostly lower-middle-class and AA all the way up.  They certainly do a good job with the demographic they have to work with, and prep they kids like crazy for the DC-CAS so most score proficient.  But don't kid yourself that the 2 Rivers kids will continue to outscore Brent once the latter is overwhelmingly high-SES, in several years.  2 Rivers had been no more than one-third high-SES from the get go, in 2002.  Moreover, granola crunchy 2 Rivers doesn't differentiate much as a matter of policy.  You don't have to look too hard on the Hill to find parents of advanced learners who bailed somewhere between K and 5th.

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Not to be rude, but why do you feel the need to post information that is just flatly incorrect?  TR does basically no test prep - it's really antithetical to the school's model.  And the school is NOT "mostly lower-middle-class and AA all the way up."  The demographics up to the 5th grade are roughly 40% high-SES, 30% middle class (by which I mean teachers and policemen and civil servants), and 30% FARMS.  The elementary school is just a smidge over 50% African-American, but the lower classes are mostly minority-majority.  I really don't understand why you have to tear down a school to make your point.  But then, you don't really seem to have a point except to spread misinformation.  Which just makes you sound racist, and like you need to rely on false information to convince yourself and others how great Brent is.[/quote]

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