Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is Janney, and then everything else.

And it is this attitude that made me not even consider AU Park in our house hunt.

Ditto I can't stand Janney parents. Also, they don't even have the highest test scores! I would rather go to many EOTO schools than Janney!

OP, it depends on how important Deal is to you. And maybe you should widen your search beyond the acronym?

Mann is great-I braced myself for an uppity PTA, but it was unnecessary. I have put 2 kids already through and am in the middle of he third's time there and it is glorious-small, respectful, dedicated staff and faculty, godsend of a principal, and renovations are almost done!

Key is great also, has a lovely community and physical plant with good teachers, and I am regularly impressed by the students and community that has emerged from Stoddert. As has been stated before, Janney is a good school, but REaLLy big, and only getting bigger, but has the best feeders. On paper, Lafayette is fabulous-great feeders, beautiful location, renovation plans in progress, good scores, but both the teachers and students I know who used to be a part of that community dispute the positive things I've always thought about the school. The open floor plan seems less than ideal for an elementary, but will change in the renovation. Murch is crowded, it and Lapfayetter would be at the bottom of my list.

We love Stoddert.
We moved IB to Mann and hope the school has just as great atmosphere (relaxed) as Stoddert.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hearst is basically an EOTP school that just happens to be WOTP.

Jerk.

You're both jerks
-a parent of a student at our EOTP school

OP, there are tons of threads like this that routinely pop up. you may not find an answer here, the reality is that most posters know their own JKLMMH school and have no direct experience of the others (not that many people have kids in more than one of these schools). all these schools are good, you should visit them all to have a first hand idea and chose the one that best suit your child. also with the low inventory it may not be easy to find the right house IB for the right school.

Key is small, cute and wonderful. Expensive housing stock though if you want spacious/modernized.

Anonymous wrote:Hearst is basically an EOTP school that just happens to be WOTP.

Jerk.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is Janney, and then everything else.

And it is this attitude that made me not even consider AU Park in our house hunt.

What a stupid reason to exclude an entire neighborhood from a house search. Do you really think that poster is indicative of people who live in AU Park? SMH.

Well, that wasn't the only reason. I didn't want my kid in an enormous school with 5 classes in each grade. I also value a more diverse school environment. AND I didn't want to deal with parents who think the Janney is the only real option for DCPS. There are other options that I preferred, so I didn't consider AU Park. You can SYH all you want, why do you care what criteria I use to pick a neighborhood?

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:There is Janney, and then everything else.

And it is this attitude that made me not even consider AU Park in our house hunt.

What a stupid reason to exclude an entire neighborhood from a house search. Do you really think that poster is indicative of people who live in AU Park? SMH.

I would visit the schools mentioned so far on the list and take all of these comments with a grain of salt. All of the schools commented on so far are very solid. Your child will be well served by any of these options.

This an anonymous board that people use to give comments to boost schools, dissuade others from moving in so resources are not distracted away from their child (overcrowding, too big, etc.), and belittle schools that may have more diversity (EOTP comment) -- parents have agendas that are not often entirely clear, and may be very biased.

These rivalries manifest themselves at the level of the parents, do not serve the children well, and allow DCPS to be less accountable because we look at issues at a sub-neighborhood level that is very provincial.

Not Murch. The school desperately needs a renovation, but may never get one -- in which case your kids will spend half their elementary career in trailers, at a school with no cafeteria. OTOH, if it does get a renovation, the kids will be relocated, for undetermined period of time, to an undetermined location. Don't buy into that headache.

If your child comes from a home with graduate degreed parents and is exposed to a rich variety of reading material and travel, it doesn't matter academically.

If you have concerns about the values of the parents and the level of wealth that your child will take for granted, you may want to skip Janney, Mann, Key, and Lafayette.

Anonymous wrote:There is Janney, and then everything else.

And it is this attitude that made me not even consider AU Park in our house hunt.

There is Janney, and then everything else.