Does anyone on Capitol Hill send their kid to an elementary in upper NW?

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Anonymous wrote:You “roll with it” no matter where you live. It’s just that in some areas, more things will roll the way you like it than in other areas. It’s up to you to figure out which area fits you best. If you are wanting to send your kid to an elementary in NW, my guess is that you probably should be living there in the first place.

NP. The person wrote a thoughtful, nuanced reply explaining the range of considerations that went into their decision making. And this is what you grasped? To quote one of my favorite comedians, "Your confidence makes you ignorant."

nothing was really thoughtful and nuanced. it was dripping with self-motivated reasoning. PP is right - if you are going to schelpp to NW for school and MoCo for extracurriculars, it really starts to suggest the Hill is not the place you want to be.

We get it. You took a psych class in college or had one in your marginal Executive MBA progam. Now if only you knew what the words meant...

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Anonymous wrote:OP, my kids were at a CH school some years ago for pre k/K and I LOVED it. But even though the I loved their teachers and classmates, I didn't like the behavior, language, and activity I was seeing from some of the kids in the upper grades (4-5/6), so I applied out for private. I thought about waiting a few years, but I figured they had a better chance of getting accepted to the lower grades.

They both got in to great schools and I haven't regretted the decision at all, not even once. The commute isn't great, but its a sacrifice I chose to make and one that won't last forever. Good luck to you in whatever you decide to do.

As a mom to a child starting ECE in CH, I'm just curious, what privates are CH families moving to for later elementary years? And then do you plan to stay private for MS and HS as well?

We looked at basically every school- including Capitol Hill Day and St. Peter’s on the Hill. We didn’t look at anything in Maryland. We looked at Potomac and Burgundy Farms in VA. If you begin to do research you’ll find a wide set of options. We are applying for K, first choice is Maret (and we find out Friday). We plan to do private through HS and will move closer to the school in a few years once we get the other 2 kids through daycare and prek (our eldest did get pre-K 3 lottery to our inbound). There were CH families at every school we looked at. Capitol Hill Day was fabulous, we didn’t end up applying because we decided we don’t like super progressive schools. I think it’s a great option if that’s your education philosophy.

You couldn't find tolerable public K on Capitol Hill? Come on, ridiculous. Capitol Hill Day just isn't fabulous. They're charging more than 30K for a campus without a gym or stage (they borrow stages from CH churches, including mine). No secret that CHD essentially admits any family that can pay where the kid isn't a discipline problem. If you want to raise a cocoon kid who may not be able to cope with the every day rough and tumble of life, keep at it, mom. We're Ivy league grads. Our kids went through a DCPS CH ES program from PreS-5th grade. They play in competitive orchestras at Strathmore, are bilingual (in a language not taught in any DC school), and compete in regional math Olympiads and pre-SCRIPPS spelling bees (and often win). Why don't you take your private school K rhapsodies to the private school threads, where they belong?

Why didn’t you have your kids do the DC Youth Orchestra?
Don’t they practice at Eastern HS?

We started at DCYO but my kid wanted to play in one of the single wind instrument ensembles at Strathmore, offered for harp, flute and clarinet for ages 12-18 for those who audition successfully. The MYCO instruction and the fantastic venue--Strathmore--are worth the weekly commute to rehearsals. My older kid has a music/academic scholarship to a private after 8 years in DCPS.

Are you personally driving this commute or have you hired it out or is your kid old enough to drive and you have a second car? I'm wondering how you are making this work.

It’s one single day a week. My Hill kids do DCYOP and it’s not like Takoma is close… Like, yes, Strathmore is another 15-20 minutes, but either way you’re just hanging out/running errands/waiting for your kid, not driving home & back unless you absolutely have to.

Takoma from the Hill is a pointless PITA too. I have to take my kid weekly to MoCo for therapy (b/c there are not specialists any closer) and it sucks. Living in MoCo would be convenient for many reasons, including buses to schools where you don’t have to assume you will “supplement,” access to medical care/therapists, and extra curriculars. Spending hours driving to far-flung activities or schools defeats the purpose of living on the Hill.

If you decide to dig in and stay on the Hill, which we've done after 25 years of living in Ward 6, you roll with how things turn out for your kids. No parent can look into a crystal ball when a kid is tiny on CH to know how things will turn out. My eldest got much better instrumental music instruction that we expected at our DCPS ES then really hunkered down during the pandemic to develop as a musician via Zoom lessons (much better than streaming movies and playing video games). We're not about to move from the Hill because the kid plays at Strathmore once a week. The kid is old enough to jump on the Red Line to get to some rehearsals. You roll with the hassles and expense of developing your kids' most serious talents and interests as best you can. In the big picture, we're glad that we're staying in the neighborhood we love, come what may.

Preach! The difference between your approach and mentality and the person to whom you responded is the difference between being older and actually having kids at this age and either (i) being a troll/jealous person who lives somewhere else and is desperate to convince themselves they made the right choice or (ii) younger parents freaking out because none of us really knew what parenting an older kid was or who our kids were when they were younger.

If one understood CH only through the lens of DCUM they'd never know that a majority of parents are like you (and me). We role with it. Nothing is perfect and everything has trade offs. What is right for my older kid might not be for my younger. What is right for my family might not be for someone else. All of which is ok.

everything is ok except people who disagree with you! (and of course the old “everything is ok with our IB [we are planning on private HS].” I like the Hill; the self-righteousness gets annoying.

You need to learn to read. The CH poster (not me) explained why it was the right choice for them and the things they did to make it work. They indicted no other choices. Then someone else replied to say, "you probably should be living [in NW] in the first place." Let me repeat that since you seem to be confused; the CH poster did NOT suggest anyone else should make the same choices or that their choices were superior. That concept was introduced by someone else.

If you are seeing self ritchousness where there is none that seems like an indication that maybe you are really fragile and question your own life choices.

+1. I can't help but wonder if the PPs are toddler or pre-K parents where 4 years feels like forever. I live on the Hill. I have for many years. My kids will ultimately go to HS elsewhere. That'll be a brief period in the grand scheme of things, really.

I mean no, “My kids will go to HS elsewhere” is not really a great recommendation for Hill life. It sucks, actually. (And is enormously privileged of course.)

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I would not want to force the longer commute on my children. People can make other decisions.

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Anonymous wrote:I would not want to force the longer commute on my children. People can make other decisions.

My kids can get from the Hill to Basis considerably faster than many kids in the burbs or, hell, at JR can get to their HS. Try to judge less.

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Anonymous wrote:OP, my kids were at a CH school some years ago for pre k/K and I LOVED it. But even though the I loved their teachers and classmates, I didn't like the behavior, language, and activity I was seeing from some of the kids in the upper grades (4-5/6), so I applied out for private. I thought about waiting a few years, but I figured they had a better chance of getting accepted to the lower grades.

They both got in to great schools and I haven't regretted the decision at all, not even once. The commute isn't great, but its a sacrifice I chose to make and one that won't last forever. Good luck to you in whatever you decide to do.

As a mom to a child starting ECE in CH, I'm just curious, what privates are CH families moving to for later elementary years? And then do you plan to stay private for MS and HS as well?

We looked at basically every school- including Capitol Hill Day and St. Peter’s on the Hill. We didn’t look at anything in Maryland. We looked at Potomac and Burgundy Farms in VA. If you begin to do research you’ll find a wide set of options. We are applying for K, first choice is Maret (and we find out Friday). We plan to do private through HS and will move closer to the school in a few years once we get the other 2 kids through daycare and prek (our eldest did get pre-K 3 lottery to our inbound). There were CH families at every school we looked at. Capitol Hill Day was fabulous, we didn’t end up applying because we decided we don’t like super progressive schools. I think it’s a great option if that’s your education philosophy.

You couldn't find tolerable public K on Capitol Hill? Come on, ridiculous. Capitol Hill Day just isn't fabulous. They're charging more than 30K for a campus without a gym or stage (they borrow stages from CH churches, including mine). No secret that CHD essentially admits any family that can pay where the kid isn't a discipline problem. If you want to raise a cocoon kid who may not be able to cope with the every day rough and tumble of life, keep at it, mom. We're Ivy league grads. Our kids went through a DCPS CH ES program from PreS-5th grade. They play in competitive orchestras at Strathmore, are bilingual (in a language not taught in any DC school), and compete in regional math Olympiads and pre-SCRIPPS spelling bees (and often win). Why don't you take your private school K rhapsodies to the private school threads, where they belong?

Why didn’t you have your kids do the DC Youth Orchestra?
Don’t they practice at Eastern HS?

We started at DCYO but my kid wanted to play in one of the single wind instrument ensembles at Strathmore, offered for harp, flute and clarinet for ages 12-18 for those who audition successfully. The MYCO instruction and the fantastic venue--Strathmore--are worth the weekly commute to rehearsals. My older kid has a music/academic scholarship to a private after 8 years in DCPS.

Are you personally driving this commute or have you hired it out or is your kid old enough to drive and you have a second car? I'm wondering how you are making this work.

It’s one single day a week. My Hill kids do DCYOP and it’s not like Takoma is close… Like, yes, Strathmore is another 15-20 minutes, but either way you’re just hanging out/running errands/waiting for your kid, not driving home & back unless you absolutely have to.

Takoma from the Hill is a pointless PITA too. I have to take my kid weekly to MoCo for therapy (b/c there are not specialists any closer) and it sucks. Living in MoCo would be convenient for many reasons, including buses to schools where you don’t have to assume you will “supplement,” access to medical care/therapists, and extra curriculars. Spending hours driving to far-flung activities or schools defeats the purpose of living on the Hill.

If you decide to dig in and stay on the Hill, which we've done after 25 years of living in Ward 6, you roll with how things turn out for your kids. No parent can look into a crystal ball when a kid is tiny on CH to know how things will turn out. My eldest got much better instrumental music instruction that we expected at our DCPS ES then really hunkered down during the pandemic to develop as a musician via Zoom lessons (much better than streaming movies and playing video games). We're not about to move from the Hill because the kid plays at Strathmore once a week. The kid is old enough to jump on the Red Line to get to some rehearsals. You roll with the hassles and expense of developing your kids' most serious talents and interests as best you can. In the big picture, we're glad that we're staying in the neighborhood we love, come what may.

Preach! The difference between your approach and mentality and the person to whom you responded is the difference between being older and actually having kids at this age and either (i) being a troll/jealous person who lives somewhere else and is desperate to convince themselves they made the right choice or (ii) younger parents freaking out because none of us really knew what parenting an older kid was or who our kids were when they were younger.

If one understood CH only through the lens of DCUM they'd never know that a majority of parents are like you (and me). We role with it. Nothing is perfect and everything has trade offs. What is right for my older kid might not be for my younger. What is right for my family might not be for someone else. All of which is ok.

everything is ok except people who disagree with you! (and of course the old “everything is ok with our IB [we are planning on private HS].” I like the Hill; the self-righteousness gets annoying.

You need to learn to read. The CH poster (not me) explained why it was the right choice for them and the things they did to make it work. They indicted no other choices. Then someone else replied to say, "you probably should be living [in NW] in the first place." Let me repeat that since you seem to be confused; the CH poster did NOT suggest anyone else should make the same choices or that their choices were superior. That concept was introduced by someone else.

If you are seeing self ritchousness where there is none that seems like an indication that maybe you are really fragile and question your own life choices.

+1. I can't help but wonder if the PPs are toddler or pre-K parents where 4 years feels like forever. I live on the Hill. I have for many years. My kids will ultimately go to HS elsewhere. That'll be a brief period in the grand scheme of things, really.

I mean no, “My kids will go to HS elsewhere” is not really a great recommendation for Hill life. It sucks, actually. (And is enormously privileged of course.)

By elsewhere, I just meant not the Hill. It’s not super privileged to play the same lottery as everyone else. But judge away.

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Anonymous wrote:You “roll with it” no matter where you live. It’s just that in some areas, more things will roll the way you like it than in other areas. It’s up to you to figure out which area fits you best. If you are wanting to send your kid to an elementary in NW, my guess is that you probably should be living there in the first place.

This. Some areas there is much more certainty and guarantee for a good school feed. Also, frankly it’s a pain in the ass to take your kid to far extracurriculars because no really good offerings or demand far exceeds supply and you can’t get what you want.

Everyone has to roll with it but life is just much easier in some places than others. And it’s a pain in the neck applying to privates or playing the lottery for middle and high school. It’s not just simply ranking schools in the lottery, you need plan A, B, and C. The private school application is a whole other bear from parents who went thru it.

I won’t even touch on the supplementing which is another huge bear.

It’s not as easy or simple as the Swarthmore PP makes it seem. It’s a lot of time, energy, resources, and money.

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Anonymous wrote:You “roll with it” no matter where you live. It’s just that in some areas, more things will roll the way you like it than in other areas. It’s up to you to figure out which area fits you best. If you are wanting to send your kid to an elementary in NW, my guess is that you probably should be living there in the first place.

This. Some areas there is much more certainty and guarantee for a good school feed. Also, frankly it’s a pain in the ass to take your kid to far extracurriculars because no really good offerings or demand far exceeds supply and you can’t get what you want.

Everyone has to roll with it but life is just much easier in some places than others. And it’s a pain in the neck applying to privates or playing the lottery for middle and high school. It’s not just simply ranking schools in the lottery, you need plan A, B, and C. The private school application is a whole other bear from parents who went thru it.

I won’t even touch on the supplementing which is another huge bear.

It’s not as easy or simple as the Swarthmore PP makes it seem. It’s a lot of time, energy, resources, and money.

NP. You are projecting. They in no way said it was "easy or simple". They explained their process and reasoning and said for them it wasn't a big deal. Why is it that people like you think it is fine to impose your value system on others but anyone who even explains what they do or why, without judging what you do, is somehow attacking you or encroaching on your freedoms?

They didn't judge you or suggest your choices were wrong. You and a bunch of other DCUM fragiles told her that her choices were wrong and that she should be making teh same choice you made. Fragile white people.

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Anonymous wrote:I would not want to force the longer commute on my children. People can make other decisions.

My kids can get from the Hill to Basis considerably faster than many kids in the burbs or, hell, at JR can get to their HS. Try to judge less.

Basis is barely NW. And it's not only time, but also the strain on the family. MCPS has these crazy things called ... school buses!

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Anonymous wrote:You “roll with it” no matter where you live. It’s just that in some areas, more things will roll the way you like it than in other areas. It’s up to you to figure out which area fits you best. If you are wanting to send your kid to an elementary in NW, my guess is that you probably should be living there in the first place.

This. Some areas there is much more certainty and guarantee for a good school feed. Also, frankly it’s a pain in the ass to take your kid to far extracurriculars because no really good offerings or demand far exceeds supply and you can’t get what you want.

Everyone has to roll with it but life is just much easier in some places than others. And it’s a pain in the neck applying to privates or playing the lottery for middle and high school. It’s not just simply ranking schools in the lottery, you need plan A, B, and C. The private school application is a whole other bear from parents who went thru it.

I won’t even touch on the supplementing which is another huge bear.

It’s not as easy or simple as the Swarthmore PP makes it seem. It’s a lot of time, energy, resources, and money.

NP. You are projecting. They in no way said it was "easy or simple". They explained their process and reasoning and said for them it wasn't a big deal. Why is it that people like you think it is fine to impose your value system on others but anyone who even explains what they do or why, without judging what you do, is somehow attacking you or encroaching on your freedoms?

They didn't judge you or suggest your choices were wrong. You and a bunch of other DCUM fragiles told her that her choices were wrong and that she should be making teh same choice you made. Fragile white people.

This is the problem that I see all of the Hill discourse about schools/kids. People give you a carefully curated explanation about why "XYZ is really no big deal, it's great for our family!" while they leave out TONS of relevant information. It's all fine and well for different people to do different things, but there is a (seemingly calculated at times) effort to paint a rosy picturel. If you don't start to learn how to interpret these statements, then you can make the wrong decisions for yourself. It don't really care about PP's choice to schlep to MoCo for orchestra; I do care about the misrepresentation about it being no big deal, as well as the failure to understand how much easier it can be if you actually just live closer to where the amenities for kids exist. Like, public middle schools where the orchestra is so good your kid doesn't need it to be an extracurricular!

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Anonymous wrote:You “roll with it” no matter where you live. It’s just that in some areas, more things will roll the way you like it than in other areas. It’s up to you to figure out which area fits you best. If you are wanting to send your kid to an elementary in NW, my guess is that you probably should be living there in the first place.

This. Some areas there is much more certainty and guarantee for a good school feed. Also, frankly it’s a pain in the ass to take your kid to far extracurriculars because no really good offerings or demand far exceeds supply and you can’t get what you want.

Everyone has to roll with it but life is just much easier in some places than others. And it’s a pain in the neck applying to privates or playing the lottery for middle and high school. It’s not just simply ranking schools in the lottery, you need plan A, B, and C. The private school application is a whole other bear from parents who went thru it.

I won’t even touch on the supplementing which is another huge bear.

It’s not as easy or simple as the Swarthmore PP makes it seem. It’s a lot of time, energy, resources, and money.

NP. You are projecting. They in no way said it was "easy or simple". They explained their process and reasoning and said for them it wasn't a big deal. Why is it that people like you think it is fine to impose your value system on others but anyone who even explains what they do or why, without judging what you do, is somehow attacking you or encroaching on your freedoms?

They didn't judge you or suggest your choices were wrong. You and a bunch of other DCUM fragiles told her that her choices were wrong and that she should be making teh same choice you made. Fragile white people.

This is the problem that I see all of the Hill discourse about schools/kids. People give you a carefully curated explanation about why "XYZ is really no big deal, it's great for our family!" while they leave out TONS of relevant information. It's all fine and well for different people to do different things, but there is a (seemingly calculated at times) effort to paint a rosy picturel. If you don't start to learn how to interpret these statements, then you can make the wrong decisions for yourself. It don't really care about PP's choice to schlep to MoCo for orchestra; I do care about the misrepresentation about it being no big deal, as well as the failure to understand how much easier it can be if you actually just live closer to where the amenities for kids exist. Like, public middle schools where the orchestra is so good your kid doesn't need it to be an extracurricular!

Oh sorry, I missed the random reference to raise as a way to prove you're better. That should be on the Hill School Bingo card.

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Anonymous wrote:You “roll with it” no matter where you live. It’s just that in some areas, more things will roll the way you like it than in other areas. It’s up to you to figure out which area fits you best. If you are wanting to send your kid to an elementary in NW, my guess is that you probably should be living there in the first place.

This. Some areas there is much more certainty and guarantee for a good school feed. Also, frankly it’s a pain in the ass to take your kid to far extracurriculars because no really good offerings or demand far exceeds supply and you can’t get what you want.

Everyone has to roll with it but life is just much easier in some places than others. And it’s a pain in the neck applying to privates or playing the lottery for middle and high school. It’s not just simply ranking schools in the lottery, you need plan A, B, and C. The private school application is a whole other bear from parents who went thru it.

I won’t even touch on the supplementing which is another huge bear.

It’s not as easy or simple as the Swarthmore PP makes it seem. It’s a lot of time, energy, resources, and money.

NP. You are projecting. They in no way said it was "easy or simple". They explained their process and reasoning and said for them it wasn't a big deal. Why is it that people like you think it is fine to impose your value system on others but anyone who even explains what they do or why, without judging what you do, is somehow attacking you or encroaching on your freedoms?

They didn't judge you or suggest your choices were wrong. You and a bunch of other DCUM fragiles told her that her choices were wrong and that she should be making teh same choice you made. Fragile white people.

This is the problem that I see all of the Hill discourse about schools/kids. People give you a carefully curated explanation about why "XYZ is really no big deal, it's great for our family!" while they leave out TONS of relevant information. It's all fine and well for different people to do different things, but there is a (seemingly calculated at times) effort to paint a rosy picturel. If you don't start to learn how to interpret these statements, then you can make the wrong decisions for yourself. It don't really care about PP's choice to schlep to MoCo for orchestra; I do care about the misrepresentation about it being no big deal, as well as the failure to understand how much easier it can be if you actually just live closer to where the amenities for kids exist. Like, public middle schools where the orchestra is so good your kid doesn't need it to be an extracurricular!

Yes, life closer where amenities for kids exist, like the public library one block from our house on Capitol Hill and the swim center that's half a mile away. How about the 2 Metro stations (serving 4 lines between them) within a 15-min walk, and the National Mall, where one of my kids volunteers at a museum he reaches on his bike. My kids mostly get to their own extra curriculars by Metro, along with their orthodontist in VA. We have beloved neighbors of 20 years (their houses are attached to ours) with keys to our place in case kids get locked out or need help. Any wonder that some of us choose to stay put in our pretty walkable historic neighborhood?

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Anonymous wrote:You “roll with it” no matter where you live. It’s just that in some areas, more things will roll the way you like it than in other areas. It’s up to you to figure out which area fits you best. If you are wanting to send your kid to an elementary in NW, my guess is that you probably should be living there in the first place.

This. Some areas there is much more certainty and guarantee for a good school feed. Also, frankly it’s a pain in the ass to take your kid to far extracurriculars because no really good offerings or demand far exceeds supply and you can’t get what you want.

Everyone has to roll with it but life is just much easier in some places than others. And it’s a pain in the neck applying to privates or playing the lottery for middle and high school. It’s not just simply ranking schools in the lottery, you need plan A, B, and C. The private school application is a whole other bear from parents who went thru it.

I won’t even touch on the supplementing which is another huge bear.

It’s not as easy or simple as the Swarthmore PP makes it seem. It’s a lot of time, energy, resources, and money.

NP. You are projecting. They in no way said it was "easy or simple". They explained their process and reasoning and said for them it wasn't a big deal. Why is it that people like you think it is fine to impose your value system on others but anyone who even explains what they do or why, without judging what you do, is somehow attacking you or encroaching on your freedoms?

They didn't judge you or suggest your choices were wrong. You and a bunch of other DCUM fragiles told her that her choices were wrong and that she should be making teh same choice you made. Fragile white people.

Does your crystal ball tell you what race PPs are?

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Anonymous wrote:You “roll with it” no matter where you live. It’s just that in some areas, more things will roll the way you like it than in other areas. It’s up to you to figure out which area fits you best. If you are wanting to send your kid to an elementary in NW, my guess is that you probably should be living there in the first place.

This. Some areas there is much more certainty and guarantee for a good school feed. Also, frankly it’s a pain in the ass to take your kid to far extracurriculars because no really good offerings or demand far exceeds supply and you can’t get what you want.

Everyone has to roll with it but life is just much easier in some places than others. And it’s a pain in the neck applying to privates or playing the lottery for middle and high school. It’s not just simply ranking schools in the lottery, you need plan A, B, and C. The private school application is a whole other bear from parents who went thru it.

I won’t even touch on the supplementing which is another huge bear.

It’s not as easy or simple as the Swarthmore PP makes it seem. It’s a lot of time, energy, resources, and money.

NP. You are projecting. They in no way said it was "easy or simple". They explained their process and reasoning and said for them it wasn't a big deal. Why is it that people like you think it is fine to impose your value system on others but anyone who even explains what they do or why, without judging what you do, is somehow attacking you or encroaching on your freedoms?

They didn't judge you or suggest your choices were wrong. You and a bunch of other DCUM fragiles told her that her choices were wrong and that she should be making teh same choice you made. Fragile white people.

This is the problem that I see all of the Hill discourse about schools/kids. People give you a carefully curated explanation about why "XYZ is really no big deal, it's great for our family!" while they leave out TONS of relevant information. It's all fine and well for different people to do different things, but there is a (seemingly calculated at times) effort to paint a rosy picturel. If you don't start to learn how to interpret these statements, then you can make the wrong decisions for yourself. It don't really care about PP's choice to schlep to MoCo for orchestra; I do care about the misrepresentation about it being no big deal, as well as the failure to understand how much easier it can be if you actually just live closer to where the amenities for kids exist. Like, public middle schools where the orchestra is so good your kid doesn't need it to be an extracurricular!

Yes, because a suburban middle school orchestra is definitely the same as DCYOP or Strathmore. (PS. Strathmore is largely full of kids who are the best in their respective middle school orchestras.)

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Anonymous wrote:I would not want to force the longer commute on my children. People can make other decisions.

My kids can get from the Hill to Basis considerably faster than many kids in the burbs or, hell, at JR can get to their HS. Try to judge less.

Basis is barely NW. And it's not only time, but also the strain on the family. MCPS has these crazy things called ... school buses!

I'm not sure what you mean by "barely NW," but no one would claim Basis was on the Hill. If what you're saying is that there is actually is a decent middle school/HS not that far from the Hill... well, that's my point. DC has this thing called... public buses. Not sure why you think they're a significantly bigger strain than school buses; I actually find them much easier/more reliable because if you miss one or there's a problem with one, there are later ones... and if you need to be at school early for an extracurricular, there are earlier ones.

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Anonymous wrote:I would not want to force the longer commute on my children. People can make other decisions.

My kids can get from the Hill to Basis considerably faster than many kids in the burbs or, hell, at JR can get to their HS. Try to judge less.

Basis is barely NW. And it's not only time, but also the strain on the family. MCPS has these crazy things called ... school buses!

I'm not sure what you mean by "barely NW," but no one would claim Basis was on the Hill. If what you're saying is that there is actually is a decent middle school/HS not that far from the Hill... well, that's my point. DC has this thing called... public buses. Not sure why you think they're a significantly bigger strain than school buses; I actually find them much easier/more reliable because if you miss one or there's a problem with one, there are later ones... and if you need to be at school early for an extracurricular, there are earlier ones.

+100. The only reason my kid actually makes it on time to Basis is because there are multiple buses/trains that get him there. He times is so that if he misses his usual bus, he can still take the next few.