Does anyone IB for JKLM send their kid to a charter?

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Agree completely about the apartment dwelling. We all make our choices. You know full well the whole city has access to charters -as it should be.

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All the WOTP apartment dwellers I know have graduate degrees and several have PhDs. It pisses me off that some house owners think they are culturally or educationally superior.

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Anonymous wrote:All the WOTP apartment dwellers I know have graduate degrees and several have PhDs. It pisses me off that some house owners think they are culturally or educationally superior.

Well, they DO have richer parents.

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Anonymous wrote:LOVE YOU Conn Ave APT dweller. We, too, are Conn Ave Apt people, and it is frustrating when people EOTP say that they are entitled to charter schools but WOTP people are not. I live here because it was significantly cheaper than many parts of the city, including the many of the EOTP house and condo options in more interesting and vibrant parts of the city. We all make our choices, but it is not fair to presume that IB JKLM means you are wealthy.

I'm another Conn Ave Apt Dweller.

Being from the other side of town, I have to admit that it isn't easy to get into one of these places. The new management of my apartment building expects new residents to make 4x-5x rent. I'm a first year teacher and a single parent. That's not going to happen anytime soon. Fortunately, I was able to get in a few years ago during the recession. Everyone keeps telling me to move. "You can get so much more for your money somewhere else." I'm content to "slum" it in a one bedroom for the school system. It's a personal choice. I don't condemn anyone else for not making it, but I teach at a school that I wouldn't send my child to.

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Anonymous wrote:It doesn't matter because I live IB for Janney and my child attends a very sought after charter--despite your useless opinion. Your opinion also doesn't matter to Mayor Bowser, DCPS officials, DC council members, Ward 3 parents whose children attend popular charters...should I continue? So please feel free to express your hopeless opinion...it will have absolutely NO effect. BWAHAHAHAHAHAH indeed!

Yes dear. You've been saying that for a while now. We know your child attends the sought out charter which is the point of this whole thread. You know why my opinion matters? Because nothing is set in stone. Policies change, opinions change based on the newest data and the OPINIONS of taxpayers. So you are fine for now, but the fact that you seem to be taking that for granted just makes you look stupid AND selfish. But go on. Please.

Not PP you are responding to (who is obviously a moron), but I really don't think that the council is going to pass a law to say that those who live WOTP can't go to city-wide schools.

Oh I don't think so either but I got tired of her telling me how my opinion doesn't matter. Just because she doesn't agree doesn't mean it doesn't matter. I don't agree with half of what other people vote for in this city, but their votes matter.

Yeah, I really hope that she is not emblematic of other Janney parents.

NP: I though the whole point of the insane argument here was that she is not but "is supposed to be" a Janney parent?

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Anonymous wrote:It doesn't matter because I live IB for Janney and my child attends a very sought after charter--despite your useless opinion. Your opinion also doesn't matter to Mayor Bowser, DCPS officials, DC council members, Ward 3 parents whose children attend popular charters...should I continue? So please feel free to express your hopeless opinion...it will have absolutely NO effect. BWAHAHAHAHAHAH indeed!

Yes dear. You've been saying that for a while now. We know your child attends the sought out charter which is the point of this whole thread. You know why my opinion matters? Because nothing is set in stone. Policies change, opinions change based on the newest data and the OPINIONS of taxpayers. So you are fine for now, but the fact that you seem to be taking that for granted just makes you look stupid AND selfish. But go on. Please.

Not PP you are responding to (who is obviously a moron), but I really don't think that the council is going to pass a law to say that those who live WOTP can't go to city-wide schools.

Oh I don't think so either but I got tired of her telling me how my opinion doesn't matter. Just because she doesn't agree doesn't mean it doesn't matter. I don't agree with half of what other people vote for in this city, but their votes matter.

Yeah, I really hope that she is not emblematic of other Janney parents.

NP: I though the whole point of the insane argument here was that she is not but "is supposed to be" a Janney parent?

But reading comprehension goes out the window when someone has a chance to add another unsolicited Janney bashing comment...

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Thank for the reminder that our 265k annual salary is stil not enough for us to "buy" our public education at an acceptable level.

NP. Our HHI is less than half of yours and we are IB for JKLM. It is a matter of what you prioritize in your spending. With 265 K I would be swimming in dough.

+1. Our HHI is $190K and we are IB for Janney. Of course our house is probably half the size of PP's EOTP. I really can't stand when affluent gentrifiers whine about anyone taking away their chances in the lottery, or using "their" PreK as "free daycare". Incredibly entitled attitude.

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Thank for the reminder that our 265k annual salary is stil not enough for us to "buy" our public education at an acceptable level.

NP. Our HHI is less than half of yours and we are IB for JKLM. It is a matter of what you prioritize in your spending. With 265 K I would be swimming in dough.

+1. Our HHI is $190K and we are IB for Janney. Of course our house is probably half the size of PP's EOTP. I really can't stand when affluent gentrifiers whine about anyone taking away their chances in the lottery, or using "their" PreK as "free daycare". Incredibly entitled attitude.

I think you've got it in reverse -- it's the low SES complaining about snowflakes dropping on their parade and then leaving in favor of a more swanky party.

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Anonymous wrote:CMI has a quite a few families.

This drive me crazy. Isn't it enough that folks are IB for the best DCPS elem in the city but now they take spots from desperate parents east of the park at CMI. this is when I think that neighborhood preference should be instituted to for charters. Or at least for parents whose IB is horrible. If you ar IB for Janney don;t take a spot elsewhere.

Your enemy isn't parents from WOTP, it's a school system that gives some kids horrible IB schools.

I agree with this, so why take the spot at a charter if you are in bounds for JKLM? Kids EOTP have a lot less chance of getting in if more people enter the lottery and win the spots. AND they still have to play the out of bounds lottery to get into JKLM so as one poster so inadequately pointed out someone from EOTP is most likely not going to get into Jenney OR the charter. That's why it's selfish!!!

I would find my IB less horrible if they sepearated the high achieving students into their own classroom by 2nd grade. I have a feeling there would be a LOT more interest from the high SES families for the IB if the schools did that. DCPS is determined to screw us over. I wil let a lot slide in ps/pk and K. But by second or third grade, no I don't want my kid stuck in a classroom where the majority of the class is still on the K level. So we will bail. and to the asshole who think we shoudl just make more money. Thank for the reminder that our 265k annual salary is stil not enough for us to "buy" our public education at an acceptable level. You are an ass.

Clearly, you don't know how to manage your money. That's why your child attends a terrible school. Instead of calling people asses for speaking the truth, either make more money or manage your money better. The truth stings, huh?

I'm not the one you are responding to, but I would be careful if I were you. Pride is ugly especially when expressed the way you do it. It doesn't take much for anyone to go from upper middle class to dirt poor.

Not PP, but I think it's about choices. I'm dirt poor- never maid more than 30k and live WOTP. One chooses a house, the others a school and some can afford both.

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Thank for the reminder that our 265k annual salary is stil not enough for us to "buy" our public education at an acceptable level.

NP. Our HHI is less than half of yours and we are IB for JKLM. It is a matter of what you prioritize in your spending. With 265 K I would be swimming in dough.

+1. Our HHI is $190K and we are IB for Janney. Of course our house is probably half the size of PP's EOTP. I really can't stand when affluent gentrifiers whine about anyone taking away their chances in the lottery, or using "their" PreK as "free daycare". Incredibly entitled attitude.

I think you've got it in reverse -- it's the low SES complaining about snowflakes dropping on their parade and then leaving in favor of a more swanky party.

I think it's both of those demographics, but when the gentrifiers do it it's particularly obnoxious and hypocritical.