Hypothetical: 4th grader on/above grade level - public middle school options - currently in an ES (PS-5)

TOP TIER OPTIONS
DCPS – Deal (via Deal feeder ES)
Charter - Latin (5th)
Charter - Howard Math & Science MS
Charter - Basis (5th)

STRONG OPTIONS
Charter – KIPP (5th)
Charter - Seed (6th boarding)
Charter - Achievement Prep (4-12)
Charter - Capital City (PS-12)
Charter - D.C. Prep (4-8 )
Charter - Two Rivers (PS-8 )
Charter – Haynes (PS-8 )
Charter - DC Hebrew (’13?)
DCPS - McKinley application STEM MS (’13?)
DCPS – Langdon (PS-8 )
DCPS - Francis-Stevens (PS-8 )
DCPS – Hardy (6th)
DCPS - Stuart-Hobson (6th)

Other DCPS Options: Eliot-Hine, Jefferson, Hart, Johnson, Kelly Miller, Kramer, MacFarland, Brown, Shaw, Sousa

Other Charter Options: Arts and Technology, Center City, Cesar Chavez, Community, Friendship, Hope Community, Howard Road, Ideal, Imagine, Mary Mcleod Bethune, Maya Angelou, Meridian, Options, Paul, Perry Street, Roots, Tree Of Life, Doar

Anonymous wrote:when was this hebrew language school approved? was it by the same board that had a hissyfit over approving basis?

The problem with BASIS is that they would like to present themselves as selective when that is completely illegal. It doesn't really matter how much they want to prep for AP courses; their 5th grade students are going to be reading at a 2nd grade level and they're still legally required to educate them instead of trying to counsel them out. They might as well want to teach quantum physics to pre-schoolers. Charter schools in DC face different challenges from charter schools in (college town, kids of professors) Tucson. Even poor and uneducated families know how to enroll in one here.

Anonymous wrote:when was this hebrew language school approved? was it by the same board that had a hissyfit over approving basis?

There was no hissy-fit. One Member was opposed.

This thread is starting to sound like the TMZ of middle schools.