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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You're not wrong but I'm a little surprised by how many neighborhood families seem OK with Eliot-Hine, Jefferson Academy and Stuart Hobson these days though.  I'm not hearing too many complaints from friends and neighbors who are using these schools, most of them UMC and white.[/quote]

There are stats on this that were posted recently. It’s actually not that many families choosing their IB middle school, no matter what boosters like you post (repeatedly). [/quote]
Give me a break.  I'm no booster.  My children attend a parochial middle school in VA. I've been fed up with our DCPS ES post Covid, thrilled that we only have one week of 5th grade left.  But I'm genuinely surprised by how many of the brainy families we've known on the Hill for many years are actually sending their children to Eliot Hine, Jefferson or Stuart Hobson for 6th or 7th grade.  You don't have to be a booster to notice the uptick in Hill enrollment or to comment on it here.
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Your alleged surprise doesn’t trump the actual numbers, which actually tell the opposite story. [/quote]

I know quite a few parents who are sending their kids to Stuart Hobson and Eliot. None of them have kids who are really academic achievers so they feel comfortable in a low key environment where academics isn’t such a priority. [/quote]

Ha, you might group my kid in there, but I’d gladly share his IQ tests to disabuse you of that notion … [b]The kids I know going to EH come from very accomplished families who are comfortable with EH likely because of that.[/b] [/quote]

Why?[/quote]

Because they don’t think their kid needs to be hothoused/tiger-mommed to succeed. I don’t necessarily share that view entirely but for various reasons we are trying it out. Believe me when I tell you some very, very bright kids will be going. [/quote]

As a brown person, it’s always been my perception that these kids scoop up all the advantages that should be going to the brown kids, while allowing their parents to pretend to be super woke and brag to their other white friends.  I find it disgusting. But that’s just my opinion (and I am totally certain I’m not alone!). [/quote]

This attitude for attending the school and then you have the Joe Wilson types calling you a racist for not attending. Lose-lose.[/quote]

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