In the dc area what do middle class family’s do for school?

[Anonymous]

Private is too expensive but good pyramids are also too expensive but people don’t want kids in bad schools so what do people do?

[Anonymous]

Tell the kids to suck it up and head to a poor school that’s the dc area way!

[Anonymous]

Crickets.

[Anonymous]

They go to schools outside "good pyramids" and their kids are fine.

[Anonymous]

They go to Blair, Einstein, QO, South Lakes, Lake Braddock, or Jackson Reed via a condo or small rowhouse bought a long time ago, those kinds of schools. Something like that.

[Anonymous]

Honestly? They live in the exurbs, where they can get into a better school district for a cheaper price.

Close in DC is filled with childless people, rich people and people in subsidized housing. Maybe in a few instances someone that bought a long time ago in an area that boomed, but honestly most of that gentrification wave was 05-15 and not 15-25 so they would have had to buy before they had kids to still have school age kids right now.

The further out you go, the more real middle class people there are.

[Anonymous]

Move

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Honestly? They live in the exurbs, where they can get into a better school district for a cheaper price.

Close in DC is filled with childless people, rich people and people in subsidized housing. Maybe in a few instances someone that bought a long time ago in an area that boomed, but honestly most of that gentrification wave was 05-15 and not 15-25 so they would have had to buy before they had kids to still have school age kids right now.

The further out you go, the more real middle class people there are.

In this case what are the exurbs? As even those seem to have bad schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Honestly? They live in the exurbs, where they can get into a better school district for a cheaper price.

Close in DC is filled with childless people, rich people and people in subsidized housing. Maybe in a few instances someone that bought a long time ago in an area that boomed, but honestly most of that gentrification wave was 05-15 and not 15-25 so they would have had to buy before they had kids to still have school age kids right now.

The further out you go, the more real middle class people there are.

Bingo.

[Anonymous]

Exurbs or the middle range schools in FCPS heat Springfield, Lake Braddock, Robinson).

[Anonymous]

I sent my kid to a parochial school and I got a little bit of FA.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Honestly? They live in the exurbs, where they can get into a better school district for a cheaper price.

Close in DC is filled with childless people, rich people and people in subsidized housing. Maybe in a few instances someone that bought a long time ago in an area that boomed, but honestly most of that gentrification wave was 05-15 and not 15-25 so they would have had to buy before they had kids to still have school age kids right now.

The further out you go, the more real middle class people there are.

In this case what are the exurbs? As even those seem to have bad schools.

Like... Quince Orchard or Northwest High or Sherwood in MoCo. Those aren't tippy top schools but they are pretty good. Lots of middle class kids at those schools.

[Anonymous]

Mine go to DCPS. I have no idea what kind of educations they are getting. I'm not that involved. I went to free test-in boarding school abroad. That was painful.
They will be fine. They have the ability to do well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Honestly? They live in the exurbs, where they can get into a better school district for a cheaper price.

Close in DC is filled with childless people, rich people and people in subsidized housing. Maybe in a few instances someone that bought a long time ago in an area that boomed, but honestly most of that gentrification wave was 05-15 and not 15-25 so they would have had to buy before they had kids to still have school age kids right now.

The further out you go, the more real middle class people there are.

This is exactly what we did. Bought in 2013 in a neighborhood 99% of DCUM would never live in, had a kid in 2017. Private, substantial financial aid. House boomed, but refinanced for a 2.5% rate, so we're pretty well stuck in an so-so DC neighborhood in an awful school pyramid. Even with all we'd make selling, we can't afford to give up that rate. So we went private and feel incredibly lucky that we even got into one, and that they have generous aid.

[Anonymous]

Why do you think Frederick is the fastest growing county in Maryland?