Do you stay friends with the families that bail for the suburbs

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Anonymous wrote:The only people I know who are snobby about the suburbs are people who aren’t original to DC. They moved here from colorodo or Iowa or some square state and now trying to be so overkill on the urban vibe. We get it. You live in the city now Becky.

That is almost everyone I know in DC. They have all moved here from some Midwestern or Southern state. It is interesting that DC doesn't attract more east coast or west coast peoples.

This is just you, PP. I'm from the Mid-West, but none of my friends are. We have friends from South America, Eastern and Western Europe, the Middle East, Texas, California, New York and Canada. You should get out more. Are you multilingual? Have you lived in multiple places? I speak 5 languages and have lived all over the US and in 5 other countries, and it really helps with meeting a diverse group of friends.

But hey, I'm just a boring guy from a square state, so feel free to disregard what I say.

Use one of your five languages to reread the post “most people who are snobby about moving to the suburbs” -

So let’s parse it down, specifically what that means is the people I am specifically referring to are not ALL people, but ONLY people who are snobby about moving to the suburbs and judging people for it.

Now, to answer the second question, I have lived in 3 countries and speak three languages. So while it’s not five (good on you, you’d make an excellent waiter) you may want to take a reading comprehension class.

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A plain reading of the texts of the above posts leads to the conclusion that living in many different countries and speaking many different languages does not necessarily result in some people being civil. Good at bragging, perhaps

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Wow,the post struck a nerve. White flighters gonna flight.

Lol. If they stay they're evil gentrifiers, if they leave they're bad because of "white flight".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wow,the post struck a nerve. White flighters gonna flight.

Lol. If they stay they're evil gentrifiers, if they leave they're bad because of "white flight".

Victims going to victim

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Anonymous wrote:Is DCPS < FCPS?

Is DCPS < MCPS?

RE MCPS -- it depends on where in MCPS you live.

DCPS has WOTP vs EOTP/EOTR and MCPS has western, northern vs. eastern and parts of the county. Similar patterns with some exceptions (both for DCPS and MCPS) here and there.

One difference is that MCPS has an affirmative strategy to staff its Title 1 schools differently -- lower teacher-student ratios, more support staff in Title 1 and higher in the rest. It can mean (not always) significantly higher elementary school class sizes than in DCPS. Another is that there is no Pk3 or Pk4.

Biggest difference are, even in the “lower” ranked in APS, FCPS, LCPS, HCPS and MCPS is the curriculum versus DCPS. Even the lower ranked schools in the burbs are going to be comparable to DCPS or better. DCPS has openly & repeatedly stated and shown their priority is for the achievement gap and those students (who make up the majority of its population) need it. DCPS is right to focus their energies on the achievement gap because those children need it as they make up 3/4 of the school system demographics. Suburban school systems actually put students into tracks, but they have a new term it’s called differentiating.

Tracking and differentiating are different methods. Tracking separates kids into different classrooms. Differentiation reaches kids where they are within one classroom. DCPS does the latter until middle school math, then tracks for math thereafter. Also, none of the jurisdictions you mention has a single curriculum for all schools.