Anonymous wrote:I was curious how the zillionth Ward 6 Elementary School Threadathon got to 15 pages. Middle school, it turns out, even though the OP was interested in *renting*.

Anyway, the OP's question was mostly answered, amidst the irrelevance: all three schools are plenty good, but OP's metro preferences point towards the Brent area.

One thing to consider that wasn't mentioned this far, having gone through the same experience, is that the rental stock is not that large. So once their preferences for apartments are factored in they may not have that much choice.

Lol. Thanks for answering the original question.

Now, let the battle of words continue.

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Anonymous wrote:Maury lost about 1/3 of its rising 5th graders a few years back; 35+ stayed for 5th, most of those intentionally headed to EH.

You think 20+ IB Maury families will head to EH next year & stay for the whole year? No way.

I don’t know the exact numbers but yes, I expect there to be plenty. What you’re missing is that the kids want to go to EH!

That's great! and I can see why--new building, fields, sports teams, tv broadcasting studio

Identified as one of the 10 worst schools in the whole city during the last round of OSSE star ratings... I mean, I actually think those star ratings have tons of issues, but it is clear that EH has serious issues that a shiny new building is not going to fix.

Thanks, do you have anything helpful to add for the parents actually considering EH? Do you think we ... can't read and somehow don't know that?

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Anonymous wrote:Maury lost about 1/3 of its rising 5th graders a few years back; 35+ stayed for 5th, most of those intentionally headed to EH.

You think 20+ IB Maury families will head to EH next year & stay for the whole year? No way.

I don’t know the exact numbers but yes, I expect there to be plenty. What you’re missing is that the kids want to go to EH!

That's great! and I can see why--new building, fields, sports teams, tv broadcasting studio

Identified as one of the 10 worst schools in the whole city during the last round of OSSE star ratings... I mean, I actually think those star ratings have tons of issues, but it is clear that EH has serious issues that a shiny new building is not going to fix.

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Anonymous wrote:Maury lost about 1/3 of its rising 5th graders a few years back; 35+ stayed for 5th, most of those intentionally headed to EH.

You think 20+ IB Maury families will head to EH next year & stay for the whole year? No way.

I don’t know the exact numbers but yes, I expect there to be plenty. What you’re missing is that the kids want to go to EH!

That's great! and I can see why--new building, fields, sports teams, tv broadcasting studio

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Anonymous wrote:Maury lost about 1/3 of its rising 5th graders a few years back; 35+ stayed for 5th, most of those intentionally headed to EH.

You think 20+ IB Maury families will head to EH next year & stay for the whole year? No way.

I don’t know the exact numbers but yes, I expect there to be plenty. What you’re missing is that the kids want to go to EH!

I was curious how the zillionth Ward 6 Elementary School Threadathon got to 15 pages. Middle school, it turns out, even though the OP was interested in *renting*.

Anyway, the OP's question was mostly answered, amidst the irrelevance: all three schools are plenty good, but OP's metro preferences point towards the Brent area.

One thing to consider that wasn't mentioned this far, having gone through the same experience, is that the rental stock is not that large. So once their preferences for apartments are factored in they may not have that much choice.

Anonymous wrote:Maury lost about 1/3 of its rising 5th graders a few years back; 35+ stayed for 5th, most of those intentionally headed to EH.

You think 20+ IB Maury families will head to EH next year & stay for the whole year? No way.

Come on, Maury parents aren't bound by a deposit or contract to send their 5th graders to EH. Some will tell you what you want to hear in the spring but not turn up in the fall. Others will turn up in the fall, then quietly bail when they get off the BASIS WL in Sept. This has happened with some of the families who were supposedly "committed to sending their children to EH every fall since IB UMC families started using the school...

Anonymous wrote:I'll believe it when I see it. Some of the families of current Maury 5th graders will go private, enroll at charters that start at 6th (mainly DCI) or move, possibly most.

Not what I have heard.

Anonymous wrote:Maury lost about 1/3 of its rising 5th graders a few years back; 35+ stayed for 5th, most of those intentionally headed to EH.

My guess is that every year Maury will lose about 1/3 of 5th graders. It's just kind of a consequence of charters starting at 5th. I have also heard that most of the remaining class goes to EH now. I'm a big nervous but excited to learn more about it -- my kid wants to go, lol! He's a big proponent of staying in the neighborhood and wants to get to use the new building.

I'll believe it when I see it. Some of the families of current Maury 5th graders will go private, enroll at charters that start at 6th (mainly DCI) or move, possibly most.

Maury lost about 1/3 of its rising 5th graders a few years back; 35+ stayed for 5th, most of those intentionally headed to EH.

The same thing happened in 5th grade at Brent and Maury, just earlier. Brent has seen an increase in the size of the 5th grade cohort in the last 2 years partly because some of the 4th graders never get off the BASIS and/or Latin wait lists. These kids stay for 5th, then families trying to lottery into Stuart Hobson, Hardy, DCI, Inspire Teaching, CM, Two Rivers etc. for 6th, or move or go private.

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Anonymous wrote:The half dozen IB Brent families who went on to to Jefferson this year can be thrilled with their choice without that changing the fact that more than 85% of the 4th grade families rejected the program, like they've done for years.

There are definitely more than half a dozen Brent families with kids in this year's sixth grade class at Jefferson. I know this, because my family is one of them. (And for what's it's worth, Jefferson also has kids from Van Ness this year, as Van Ness gradated its first fifth-grade class last year.)

I understand your larger point, but please try to make it without hyperbole.

Brent families, yes, in-boundary families, no.

And herein lies the rub… Vanishingly few Brent IB families go to Jefferson. The same is true for Maury/EH. At least 10 LT IB families go to SH each year.

How did you conclude only 10 children from LT go to SH? I live near SH and see many children in red polos coming out of their homes when I’m out and about that time of the morning. My kids are really young so I have no idea.

Not only at all. About 90% of the LT 5th grade class goes to SH. But the percentage of kids that are IB is at its lowest in 5th grade and previously there were only 2 5th grade classes, so maybe 40 kids. I am confident at least 10 of the 15-20 IB kids goes to SH; I’m sure it’s often more, but I didn’t want to inflate the stats. Now that LT has 3 5th grade classes (this year has been the expansion class all the way through and added a 3rd class to each of 2nd-5th as it hit them), I think it will be safe to say at least 15. That said, one interesting fact of gentrification is that as more IB 2/3/4th graders stay, a higher percentage of 5th graders leave, because UMC white/Asians seem to be the most likely to opt into Basis/Latin/private.

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Anonymous wrote:Nobody did this:

“ Dude. You guys are the ones insisting that a parent who wrote here that they are happy at Jefferson must be wrong”

They offered what’s known as an additional perspective. Are you all incapable of rational thought?

This exquisite sensitivity has to end. Lordy.

yeah no, that’s not what happened. clearly you have no actual interest in these schools except as a foil for your own choices. so please just step away.

Again—fall in line or step away. There’s no room for questions.

Nobody seems to have asked any bona fide questions. Just random rumors and claiming the people who say they are satisfied are wrong.

Questions asked and brushed off:
“That is a worthwhile thing to do. Three questions 1) how many Brent to Jefferson to Walls/Banneker students are we talking about? 2) How many non-Brent Jefferson students have moved to Walls/Banneker and can we also talk to them? 3) Why did these Jefferson students not attend Eastern HS which is the feeder High school? “

Talk about moving the goal posts. Now Jefferson is a "bad" school because of Eastern. Ok...

These are not judgements. They are questions. You are turning them into judgements based on some kind of internal alchemy tuned to see offense everywhere

I'm just amazed. First it was IB students don't go to DCPS MS. Then it was not enough. Now it is but they don't go onto HS.

Many parents of MS students at BASIS send their children to Walls instead of continuing on to BASIS HS. Instead of concern, this decision as often celebrated as "choice" at work. Yet when Jefferson parents do the same thing, they are hypocrites.

Twisting and twisting. There is nothing hypocritical about it--except when these same parents spend their time screaming how racist it is to not use neighborhood public schools and THEN three years later head on off to private or application-only high schools. That's where it gets a bit hard to take.

You seem so paranoid about being called racist that your are dead-set on proving Jefferson inherently can never ever be an acceptable choice, which sounds, well ….