is "forcing" middle class families into DCPS basically the recovery strategy?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:the definition of 1% for the DC area is above $400K. It's closer to $500K HHI. That's a common working definition, this whole 1% thing, maybe you've heard.

If you want to argue that, since some people in Wards 7 and 8 are among the poorest people in the US, therefore everyone the city with a professional, white collar job = "wealthy," that's cool. You can use your own personalized definition that nobody else recognizes.

This was in the paper yesterday. The 1% in DC make at least $617K. It used to be $670K before the recession.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:16:40, another tidbit of information the majority of those affluent blacks of the silver coast sent there children to Woodson and Anacostia High Schools. During their hey day both schools would rival a Wilson, Banneker and Ellington in all aspects. As quiet as it was kept but when DCPS decided to develop specialty schools the equivalent of HQ teachers were lured from Woodson and Anacostia to immediately fill the positions. Remember there was no TFA as a foundation for staffing our schools, it was veteran teachers with stellar career reputations.

Will those days ever return.

I hadn't heard this. That's depressing!

[Anonymous]

My kids currently attend DC privates, but with the economy as it is we were considering public school for next year so I ventured onto this topic to see what I could find out. Sadly, I am disgusted by what I have been reading from the posters on this thread. With parents like you people showering the schoolyard, I would rather go hungry paying for private school than send my children to public schools with any of your kids. I'm back to the independent school forum as of right now

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:My kids currently attend DC privates, but with the economy as it is we were considering public school for next year so I ventured onto this topic to see what I could find out. Sadly, I am disgusted by what I have been reading from the posters on this thread. With parents like you people showering the schoolyard, I would rather go hungry paying for private school than send my children to public schools with any of your kids. I'm back to the independent school forum as of right now

You know, you don't come across very well here either.

Maybe you should try meeting some public school parents in the flesh before brushing off the public school idea completely