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.

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?

It's great for you that your kids don't have any needs or preferences that can't be served on the Hill, and that you have kids who you trust on Metro. Let's not even talk about the atmosphere in the public libraries ...

I'm at the SE library on a regular basis and it's fine?

Would you let your 10 year old walk alone to the SE library and hang out there?

New to this thread, but yes, I do let my 10-year-old go to the SE library to pick up books on hold. He doesn't hang out at the library, but if he wanted to, the librarians know him, we've been going there for years.

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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?

It's great for you that your kids don't have any needs or preferences that can't be served on the Hill, and that you have kids who you trust on Metro. Let's not even talk about the atmosphere in the public libraries ...

I'm at the SE library on a regular basis and it's fine?

Would you let your 10 year old walk alone to the SE library and hang out there?

New to this thread, but yes, I do let my 10-year-old go to the SE library to pick up books on hold. He doesn't hang out at the library, but if he wanted to, the librarians know him, we've been going there for years.

My kids go from our house to the NE library alone and do hang out there sometimes. The library is nice, there's often good programming and there's person staffing the children/teens area specifically. What's the issue?

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Some on the Hill are looking to the new MacArthur HS on MacArthur Boulevard as a back-up if our kids strike out at Walls. With MacArthur coming on line, this business of jumping to an ES in NW to access Deal and JR may become less common. MacArthur opens in fall 2023 and should be a good bet for current 7th and 6th graders OOB, since it won't fill up quickly. DCPS is planning to offer similar academics to those at JR at MacArthur, including dozens of APs, BC calc, multi-variate algebra/college math, dual enrollment language courses past AP at George Washington etc. The commute from the Hill will only be a little longer than to Walls.

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Interesting.

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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?

It's great for you that your kids don't have any needs or preferences that can't be served on the Hill, and that you have kids who you trust on Metro. Let's not even talk about the atmosphere in the public libraries ...

I'm at the SE library on a regular basis and it's fine?

Would you let your 10 year old walk alone to the SE library and hang out there?

New to this thread, but yes, I do let my 10-year-old go to the SE library to pick up books on hold. He doesn't hang out at the library, but if he wanted to, the librarians know him, we've been going there for years.

My kids go from our house to the NE library alone and do hang out there sometimes. The library is nice, there's often good programming and there's person staffing the children/teens area specifically. What's the issue?

Don’t play dumb. The NE library is nice and they have made an effort to have a separate kids area. The SE library is sketchy, both inside and out. You may tolerate this but don’t pretend.

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Anonymous wrote:Some on the Hill are looking to the new MacArthur HS on MacArthur Boulevard as a back-up if our kids strike out at Walls. With MacArthur coming on line, this business of jumping to an ES in NW to access Deal and JR may become less common. MacArthur opens in fall 2023 and should be a good bet for current 7th and 6th graders OOB, since it won't fill up quickly. DCPS is planning to offer similar academics to those at JR at MacArthur, including dozens of APs, BC calc, multi-variate algebra/college math, dual enrollment language courses past AP at George Washington etc. The commute from the Hill will only be a little longer than to Walls.

The commute is horrific! You can get to Walls on the metro. Totally different.

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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?

It's great for you that your kids don't have any needs or preferences that can't be served on the Hill, and that you have kids who you trust on Metro. Let's not even talk about the atmosphere in the public libraries ...

I'm at the SE library on a regular basis and it's fine?

Would you let your 10 year old walk alone to the SE library and hang out there?

New to this thread, but yes, I do let my 10-year-old go to the SE library to pick up books on hold. He doesn't hang out at the library, but if he wanted to, the librarians know him, we've been going there for years.

My kids go from our house to the NE library alone and do hang out there sometimes. The library is nice, there's often good programming and there's person staffing the children/teens area specifically. What's the issue?

Don’t play dumb. The NE library is nice and they have made an effort to have a separate kids area. The SE library is sketchy, both inside and out. You may tolerate this but don’t pretend.

I live a block from the NE library and so never frequent the SE library. Had no idea there was any issue there, since the NE library is nice.

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Anonymous wrote:Some on the Hill are looking to the new MacArthur HS on MacArthur Boulevard as a back-up if our kids strike out at Walls. With MacArthur coming on line, this business of jumping to an ES in NW to access Deal and JR may become less common. MacArthur opens in fall 2023 and should be a good bet for current 7th and 6th graders OOB, since it won't fill up quickly. DCPS is planning to offer similar academics to those at JR at MacArthur, including dozens of APs, BC calc, multi-variate algebra/college math, dual enrollment language courses past AP at George Washington etc. The commute from the Hill will only be a little longer than to Walls.

The commute is horrific! You can get to Walls on the metro. Totally different.

NP. The point, I think, is that with the new HS parents don't need to jump ship to a NW ES or MS, thereby negating the need to commute for 10 years or so. Families can rely on ES they like and try their luck for Latin or BASIS, maybe consider SH and see if it happens and know that a NW HS is an option. Yeah, the commute sucks. But these are HS kids and it is 4 years. Versus 10 years of ES + MS commuting just to secure a spot at JR.

PP's comment comes to this from a juvenile perspective. No one is saying that in a choice between a school on the metro and one that isn't that people would choose the one that isn't. The question is broader and more complicated.

P.S. I just love how you assume everyone lives near a Metro. That's an entitled view that tells us a lot about your worldview.

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Anonymous wrote:Some on the Hill are looking to the new MacArthur HS on MacArthur Boulevard as a back-up if our kids strike out at Walls. With MacArthur coming on line, this business of jumping to an ES in NW to access Deal and JR may become less common. MacArthur opens in fall 2023 and should be a good bet for current 7th and 6th graders OOB, since it won't fill up quickly. DCPS is planning to offer similar academics to those at JR at MacArthur, including dozens of APs, BC calc, multi-variate algebra/college math, dual enrollment language courses past AP at George Washington etc. The commute from the Hill will only be a little longer than to Walls.

The commute is horrific! You can get to Walls on the metro. Totally different.

NP. The point, I think, is that with the new HS parents don't need to jump ship to a NW ES or MS, thereby negating the need to commute for 10 years or so. Families can rely on ES they like and try their luck for Latin or BASIS, maybe consider SH and see if it happens and know that a NW HS is an option. Yeah, the commute sucks. But these are HS kids and it is 4 years. Versus 10 years of ES + MS commuting just to secure a spot at JR.

PP's comment comes to this from a juvenile perspective. No one is saying that in a choice between a school on the metro and one that isn't that people would choose the one that isn't. The question is broader and more complicated.

P.S. I just love how you assume everyone lives near a Metro. That's an entitled view that tells us a lot about your worldview.

A NW high school is not an "option." You still need to *win a lottery* to get a spot there. PS most people on the Hill live close to a Metro. But tell me again how entitled I am to believe that you should live in a neighbohood accessible to a school, by school bus? "Entitlement" is also on my Hill Bingo card:

' "Hey, I think it would be nice to have this thing that people all over have for their kids"
"SO ENTITLED! On the Hill we don't have nice things, and WE LOVE IT!"

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Anonymous wrote:Some on the Hill are looking to the new MacArthur HS on MacArthur Boulevard as a back-up if our kids strike out at Walls. With MacArthur coming on line, this business of jumping to an ES in NW to access Deal and JR may become less common. MacArthur opens in fall 2023 and should be a good bet for current 7th and 6th graders OOB, since it won't fill up quickly. DCPS is planning to offer similar academics to those at JR at MacArthur, including dozens of APs, BC calc, multi-variate algebra/college math, dual enrollment language courses past AP at George Washington etc. The commute from the Hill will only be a little longer than to Walls.

The commute is horrific! You can get to Walls on the metro. Totally different.

NP. The point, I think, is that with the new HS parents don't need to jump ship to a NW ES or MS, thereby negating the need to commute for 10 years or so. Families can rely on ES they like and try their luck for Latin or BASIS, maybe consider SH and see if it happens and know that a NW HS is an option. Yeah, the commute sucks. But these are HS kids and it is 4 years. Versus 10 years of ES + MS commuting just to secure a spot at JR.

PP's comment comes to this from a juvenile perspective. No one is saying that in a choice between a school on the metro and one that isn't that people would choose the one that isn't. The question is broader and more complicated.

P.S. I just love how you assume everyone lives near a Metro. That's an entitled view that tells us a lot about your worldview.

A NW high school is not an "option." You still need to *win a lottery* to get a spot there. PS most people on the Hill live close to a Metro. But tell me again how entitled I am to believe that you should live in a neighbohood accessible to a school, by school bus? "Entitlement" is also on my Hill Bingo card:

' "Hey, I think it would be nice to have this thing that people all over have for their kids"
"SO ENTITLED! On the Hill we don't have nice things, and WE LOVE IT!"

You are lashing out and you don't even seem to know why or at whom. The point that was being made was that the new NW HS is not expected to be popular with current JR families which should make OOB enrollment at the new HS pretty easy. You can disagree with the premise, but that was the premise on which the discussion was based. If you could take your hate blinders off for a moment you might notice that. No one argued you should not have a HS where you live. No one. That wasn't part of any of the discussion. Not sure where you got that. And, no, "most people" on hill don't live "close" to a metro. Lots live 20+ minute walks away where a city bus would be a much better option. Not everyone lives in Eastern Market my friend.

Someone called you juvenile and you threw a temper tantrum. Not sure that doesn't prove the point.

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Anonymous wrote:Some on the Hill are looking to the new MacArthur HS on MacArthur Boulevard as a back-up if our kids strike out at Walls. With MacArthur coming on line, this business of jumping to an ES in NW to access Deal and JR may become less common. MacArthur opens in fall 2023 and should be a good bet for current 7th and 6th graders OOB, since it won't fill up quickly. DCPS is planning to offer similar academics to those at JR at MacArthur, including dozens of APs, BC calc, multi-variate algebra/college math, dual enrollment language courses past AP at George Washington etc. The commute from the Hill will only be a little longer than to Walls.

The commute is horrific! You can get to Walls on the metro. Totally different.

NP. The point, I think, is that with the new HS parents don't need to jump ship to a NW ES or MS, thereby negating the need to commute for 10 years or so. Families can rely on ES they like and try their luck for Latin or BASIS, maybe consider SH and see if it happens and know that a NW HS is an option. Yeah, the commute sucks. But these are HS kids and it is 4 years. Versus 10 years of ES + MS commuting just to secure a spot at JR.

PP's comment comes to this from a juvenile perspective. No one is saying that in a choice between a school on the metro and one that isn't that people would choose the one that isn't. The question is broader and more complicated.

P.S. I just love how you assume everyone lives near a Metro. That's an entitled view that tells us a lot about your worldview.

A NW high school is not an "option." You still need to *win a lottery* to get a spot there. PS most people on the Hill live close to a Metro. But tell me again how entitled I am to believe that you should live in a neighbohood accessible to a school, by school bus? "Entitlement" is also on my Hill Bingo card:

' "Hey, I think it would be nice to have this thing that people all over have for their kids"
"SO ENTITLED! On the Hill we don't have nice things, and WE LOVE IT!"

You are lashing out and you don't even seem to know why or at whom. The point that was being made was that the new NW HS is not expected to be popular with current JR families which should make OOB enrollment at the new HS pretty easy. You can disagree with the premise, but that was the premise on which the discussion was based. If you could take your hate blinders off for a moment you might notice that. No one argued you should not have a HS where you live. No one. That wasn't part of any of the discussion. Not sure where you got that. And, no, "most people" on hill don't live "close" to a metro. Lots live 20+ minute walks away where a city bus would be a much better option. Not everyone lives in Eastern Market my friend.

Someone called you juvenile and you threw a temper tantrum. Not sure that doesn't prove the point.

Yes, call someone "juvenile" when they point out all is not rosy. Sounds like a real bona fide effort to let people know the pluses and minuses of living on the Hill.

The point about JR is a) you still need to win a lottery to get in and b) it will be a PITA to get there.

The Hill is a kind of crappy place to live with older kids.

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Anonymous wrote:Some on the Hill are looking to the new MacArthur HS on MacArthur Boulevard as a back-up if our kids strike out at Walls. With MacArthur coming on line, this business of jumping to an ES in NW to access Deal and JR may become less common. MacArthur opens in fall 2023 and should be a good bet for current 7th and 6th graders OOB, since it won't fill up quickly. DCPS is planning to offer similar academics to those at JR at MacArthur, including dozens of APs, BC calc, multi-variate algebra/college math, dual enrollment language courses past AP at George Washington etc. The commute from the Hill will only be a little longer than to Walls.

The commute is horrific! You can get to Walls on the metro. Totally different.

I disagree. Take the Blue or Orange Line to Farragut, or the D6 bus then ride an e-scooter to MacArthur in 15 mins. It's a 35-min commute from our place in SE door to door. We're at a middle school charter, not BASIS, ready to leave. We've put in for MacArthur in the lottery for fall 2023 as a back-up in case kid doesn't get into Walls. Every good 8th grade student on the Hill doesn't get into Walls so I'm glad that McArthur may be in an option going forward.

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Anonymous wrote:Some on the Hill are looking to the new MacArthur HS on MacArthur Boulevard as a back-up if our kids strike out at Walls. With MacArthur coming on line, this business of jumping to an ES in NW to access Deal and JR may become less common. MacArthur opens in fall 2023 and should be a good bet for current 7th and 6th graders OOB, since it won't fill up quickly. DCPS is planning to offer similar academics to those at JR at MacArthur, including dozens of APs, BC calc, multi-variate algebra/college math, dual enrollment language courses past AP at George Washington etc. The commute from the Hill will only be a little longer than to Walls.

The commute is horrific! You can get to Walls on the metro. Totally different.

NP. The point, I think, is that with the new HS parents don't need to jump ship to a NW ES or MS, thereby negating the need to commute for 10 years or so. Families can rely on ES they like and try their luck for Latin or BASIS, maybe consider SH and see if it happens and know that a NW HS is an option. Yeah, the commute sucks. But these are HS kids and it is 4 years. Versus 10 years of ES + MS commuting just to secure a spot at JR.

PP's comment comes to this from a juvenile perspective. No one is saying that in a choice between a school on the metro and one that isn't that people would choose the one that isn't. The question is broader and more complicated.

P.S. I just love how you assume everyone lives near a Metro. That's an entitled view that tells us a lot about your worldview.

A NW high school is not an "option." You still need to *win a lottery* to get a spot there. PS most people on the Hill live close to a Metro. But tell me again how entitled I am to believe that you should live in a neighbohood accessible to a school, by school bus? "Entitlement" is also on my Hill Bingo card:

' "Hey, I think it would be nice to have this thing that people all over have for their kids"
"SO ENTITLED! On the Hill we don't have nice things, and WE LOVE IT!"

You are lashing out and you don't even seem to know why or at whom. The point that was being made was that the new NW HS is not expected to be popular with current JR families which should make OOB enrollment at the new HS pretty easy. You can disagree with the premise, but that was the premise on which the discussion was based. If you could take your hate blinders off for a moment you might notice that. No one argued you should not have a HS where you live. No one. That wasn't part of any of the discussion. Not sure where you got that. And, no, "most people" on hill don't live "close" to a metro. Lots live 20+ minute walks away where a city bus would be a much better option. Not everyone lives in Eastern Market my friend.

Someone called you juvenile and you threw a temper tantrum. Not sure that doesn't prove the point.

Yes, call someone "juvenile" when they point out all is not rosy. Sounds like a real bona fide effort to let people know the pluses and minuses of living on the Hill.

The point about JR is a) you still need to win a lottery to get in and b) it will be a PITA to get there.

The Hill is a kind of crappy place to live with older kids.

Why would anyone care about your opinion that the Hill is a bad place to live with older kids when you so manifestly don’t live there?

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the new macarthur hs is far except its actually from the southern side of the hill not really much further away than latin

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Isn’t the expectation that mcarthur is going to fill its OOB spots with at-risk kids (through the at-risk preference) not UMC kids from ward 6? I agree it won’t be popular with families who have the option of JR, but I’m not sure it will be the solution for UMC kids outside ward 3.