Why are all of the GOOD public schools only in the Expensive parts of town?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Like is about choice - there are homes in schools in DC that feed Deal / Hardy that are less than $1M.

3827 Albermale will go for $800K. It might not be on the most picturesque street - but in your budget.

OP is here on a blame-others rant. Let her release some steam.

When the aforementioned "steam" comes out of what should be her big girl panties, it's called a fart.

[Anonymous]

There are good public schools at (relatively) all price points. But at the lower price points, you need to be willing to live in a dwelling that does not have a large (or any) yard, a garage, updated features, a bedroom for each child, a guest room/mud room/great room/other HGTV pr0n, or even... gasp... something other than a SFH.

I clicked on this link because I thought it was going to be a genuine discussion of the extreme inequalities between standard DCUM-land and the heavily underserved parts of our area. Instead, it's a lament about how someone isn't willing to sell you the perfect house for less than you'd prefer to pay. Every child deserves access to quality public schools. Every child does not deserve access to a playroom, finished basement and Subzero fridge. Spare us the hyperbole about how there's "nothing" available at under seven figures

[Anonymous]

Great Schools is a bastion of corporate ed reform. They're big on promoting standardized test scores

[Anonymous]

This is the way it is in most cities, and most suburbs, throughout this country.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:There are good public schools at (relatively) all price points. But at the lower price points, you need to be willing to live in a dwelling that does not have a large (or any) yard, a garage, updated features, a bedroom for each child, a guest room/mud room/great room/other HGTV pr0n, or even... gasp... something other than a SFH.

I clicked on this link because I thought it was going to be a genuine discussion of the extreme inequalities between standard DCUM-land and the heavily underserved parts of our area. Instead, it's a lament about how someone isn't willing to sell you the perfect house for less than you'd prefer to pay. Every child deserves access to quality public schools. Every child does not deserve access to a playroom, finished basement and Subzero fridge. Spare us the hyperbole about how there's "nothing" available at under seven figures

This.

Or maybe OP will get lucky in the charter lottery and get into LAMB or YY and then live in any house in any neighborhood she wants.

[Anonymous]

Have you looked at Shepard Park - or is it not hip enough?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Like is about choice - there are homes in schools in DC that feed Deal / Hardy that are less than $1M.

3827 Albermale will go for $800K. It might not be on the most picturesque street - but in your budget.

OP is here on a blame-others rant. Let her release some steam.

When the aforementioned "steam" comes out of what should be her big girl panties, it's called a fart.

Is there some difference between a normal fart and a brain fart?

Can you do both at the same time?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Like is about choice - there are homes in schools in DC that feed Deal / Hardy that are less than $1M.

3827 Albermale will go for $800K. It might not be on the most picturesque street - but in your budget.

OP is here on a blame-others rant. Let her release some steam.

When the aforementioned "steam" comes out of what should be her big girl panties, it's called a fart.

I bet you're a joy to live with.

[Anonymous]

Great Schools ranks schools exclusively by test scores. There is an extraordinarily tight correlation between high test scores and high SES. So of course all the schools ranked highly by great schools will be in rich neighborhoods.

How much test scores tell you about the quality of a school is another question.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Like is about choice - there are homes in schools in DC that feed Deal / Hardy that are less than $1M.

3827 Albermale will go for $800K. It might not be on the most picturesque street - but in your budget.

OP is here on a blame-others rant. Let her release some steam.

When the aforementioned "steam" comes out of what should be her big girl panties, it's called a fart.

I bet you're a joy to live with.

More joyful than OP, no doubt about it (different poster)

[Anonymous]

Because school scores are correlated to high SES. "Good schools" have students from high SES backgrounds.

Don't look at the scores for the whole school. Look at whether the school can serve your student well. If you are college-educated and have high expectations of your child, your child will do well no matter what the score for the school is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Great Schools ranks schools exclusively by test scores. There is an extraordinarily tight correlation between high test scores and high SES. So of course all the schools ranked highly by great schools will be in rich neighborhoods.

How much test scores tell you about the quality of a school is another question.

Not entirely true.

For DC, and any other jurisdictions that calculate PMF score, that's factored into the Great Schools rating along with the test score. MD and VA don't do PMF - so theirs are just PARCC (MD) and SOLs (VA).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Great Schools ranks schools exclusively by test scores. There is an extraordinarily tight correlation between high test scores and high SES. So of course all the schools ranked highly by great schools will be in rich neighborhoods.

How much test scores tell you about the quality of a school is another question.

Not entirely true.

For DC, and any other jurisdictions that calculate PMF score, that's factored into the Great Schools rating along with the test score. MD and VA don't do PMF - so theirs are just PARCC (MD) and SOLs (VA).

Forgot the link. http://www.greatschools.org/catalog/pdf/New_Ratings_Methodology_Report.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Great Schools ranks schools exclusively by test scores. There is an extraordinarily tight correlation between high test scores and high SES. So of course all the schools ranked highly by great schools will be in rich neighborhoods.

How much test scores tell you about the quality of a school is another question.

Not entirely true.

For DC, and any other jurisdictions that calculate PMF score, that's factored into the Great Schools rating along with the test score. MD and VA don't do PMF - so theirs are just PARCC (MD) and SOLs (VA).

Not true in any sense. There are many schools with high test scores and low neighborhood SES, and many schools with low test scores and high neighborhood SES.

When we were looking for schools, you can bet we used GS ranking as ONE OF our priorities.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Have you looked at Shepard Park - or is it not hip enough?

Shepherd Park is still $800-$1M for livable and get maybe one new listing a month. OP's issue is more with real estate values than schools. I suggest she rent if she wants to stay in DC. Nobody have a right to own.