You obviously are getting out on the other side and walking thru Eckington and then to Bloomingdale which are less gentrified than NOMA and H St. Majority of people are not going that way. |
Budgeted meaning we purchased well below what we could in anticipation of private school. I agree with the "just buy in a place where you can send kids to public mindset." That's the financially smart thing to do. But I know families that moved for that exact reason and still ended up in private schools. It happens a lot. People get caught up in what all the neighbors are doing so abandoned their original plan Some marriages don't survive that situation. Things are changing rapidly. If you choose to stay just identify the privates and charters that are of interest and when you plan to make the move. The uncertainty is a drag. Just follow your plan and go from there. |
I’m OK with my middle schooler walking with friends there. Heck, I’m even OK making the 5 minute drop off at the metro for a good middle/high school with lots of extracurriculars. Why don’t you tell us your plan on your kid walking to McKinley or Eastern then. You will be doing a whole lot more driving. |
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Here is the bottom line. If your kid is going to an IB DCPS school EOTP with no good middle school feed, then you need to go in realizing your chance at getting into middle school is slim to none, especially if you are a few years off.
So you need to be prepared to move either to the burbs or WOTP. This pretty much is it. |
Again - it’s nice that you, personally, worked that out for your 11 year old. OP needs to understand what the actual facts are and assess whether she is comfortable with it and ALL the contingencies it entails. The encampment could come back; and moreover the issue is that it was allowed to stay in the first place. I’m far from a shrinking violet but that stretch by REI is still sketchy. |
Yeah majority of people are walking under the dark underpass former homeless encampment and down the sidewalk, following a trail of blood on one side of the street, and a stumbling homeless person on drugs with their fly down on the other side of the street. (Actual recent experience leaving NoMa station towards H St.) |
Ok but to “budget” for private means you would buy what, $500k less of a house? Or $1mil less if you had two kids? You are rich, sir. |
The comparison is not McKinley or Eastern. It’s moving somewhere your kid can take the bus (MoCo) or walk through safer neighborhoods (NW). |
OP can easily walk there and see for herself. She can walk from the metro to wherever to H St or NOMA. Hundreds of people walk these 2 routes twice a day everyday. Why don’t you do that next week OP during rush hour and at 3pm or 6pm rush hour if your kid will be doing after school activities. I highly recommend it so you can actually see for yourself. |
So basically you are telling OP to go to her neighborhood IB school and then move WOTP or to MD. Got it. |
You mean the one that has had the other side of the street closed off for 2.5 years due to construction of multiple buildings of luxury apartments that will all come on line this year? |
I mean yes - I am telling OP that that is a very likely thing that could happen. I have nothing against people who work out other solutions, but the point is that involve a LOT of contingencies that may or may not happen. The single path that is most secure is moving and a lot of people do it. A lot of people also enjoy a decade on the Hill until then, which is great! |
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I work in NOMA and no way would I want my middle school kid walking around there regularly. HS kid would be ok.
Even Union Station has become sketchy |
Tell me you live in the suburbs without telling me... |
Or upper NW. |