do you know a lot of people who are leaving DCPS next year?

[Anonymous]

Same for us.

I don't care about the politics of the high SES families who stick around for the upper grades at our DCPS on Cap Hill. I could care less if they're sick of black history month. I only care that they stay, especially those who are super involved. The distance learning fiasco is threatening years of hard won progress at our school.

[Anonymous]

Do the super rich of dc really make decisions based on others moving? I’m going to sell my multi million dollar home and uproot my kids because of keeping up w the Joneses?

I really can’t believe they are that thick.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do the super rich of dc really make decisions based on others moving? I’m going to sell my multi million dollar home and uproot my kids because of keeping up w the Joneses?

I really can’t believe they are that thick.

The “super rich” don’t send their kids to DCPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do the super rich of dc really make decisions based on others moving? I’m going to sell my multi million dollar home and uproot my kids because of keeping up w the Joneses?

I really can’t believe they are that thick.

The “super rich” don’t send their kids to DCPS.

This, but the PP is also missing the point completely if they think this is about “keeping up with the Joneses”.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do the super rich of dc really make decisions based on others moving? I’m going to sell my multi million dollar home and uproot my kids because of keeping up w the Joneses?

I really can’t believe they are that thick.

The “super rich” don’t send their kids to DCPS.

This, but the PP is also missing the point completely if they think this is about “keeping up with the Joneses”.

Exactly. No one lives on Capitol Hill to really keep up with the “Joneses”. Most people don’t choose narrow row houses with poor school choices in the upper grades. Or at least my parents weren’t millionaires when they raised us here. The area is more so a certain type of quirky, go against the grain idealist, city dweller type who values walkability. Many of those folks are also looking for a diverse environment for their kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Parents who don't care about hundreds, possibly thousands, of high SES DCPS families bolting from the system for good after this miserable school year of 100% DL for most are the kind who cut off their noses to spite their faces. They will need luck.

Gross over-estimation of your value but you do you.

+1

No individual family is that important, but the problem is that it can turn into a snowball effect. UMC people see other UMC people leaving, and decide they need to bail, too, because they want to see a critical mass of high-performing kids in order to entrust their own to the system.

There is nothing wrong with middle and low income minorities. Because that is really what you are describing, isn’t it? “Educational white flight.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do the super rich of dc really make decisions based on others moving? I’m going to sell my multi million dollar home and uproot my kids because of keeping up w the Joneses?

I really can’t believe they are that thick.

The “super rich” don’t send their kids to DCPS.

This, but the PP is also missing the point completely if they think this is about “keeping up with the Joneses”.

Exactly. No one lives on Capitol Hill to really keep up with the “Joneses”. Most people don’t choose narrow row houses with poor school choices in the upper grades. Or at least my parents weren’t millionaires when they raised us here. The area is more so a certain type of quirky, go against the grain idealist, city dweller type who values walkability. Many of those folks are also looking for a diverse environment for their kids.

I am but a meager multimillionaire, my kids are in DCPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Parents who don't care about hundreds, possibly thousands, of high SES DCPS families bolting from the system for good after this miserable school year of 100% DL for most are the kind who cut off their noses to spite their faces. They will need luck.

Gross over-estimation of your value but you do you.

+1

No individual family is that important, but the problem is that it can turn into a snowball effect. UMC people see other UMC people leaving, and decide they need to bail, too, because they want to see a critical mass of high-performing kids in order to entrust their own to the system.

There is nothing wrong with middle and low income minorities. Because that is really what you are describing, isn’t it? “Educational white flight.”

No, PP is describing educational UMC flight, white, black, Asian, Latino. Grow up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do the super rich of dc really make decisions based on others moving? I’m going to sell my multi million dollar home and uproot my kids because of keeping up w the Joneses?

I really can’t believe they are that thick.

The “super rich” don’t send their kids to DCPS.

This, but the PP is also missing the point completely if they think this is about “keeping up with the Joneses”.

Exactly. No one lives on Capitol Hill to really keep up with the “Joneses”. Most people don’t choose narrow row houses with poor school choices in the upper grades. Or at least my parents weren’t millionaires when they raised us here. The area is more so a certain type of quirky, go against the grain idealist, city dweller type who values walkability. Many of those folks are also looking for a diverse environment for their kids.

This is not quite accurate for current hill parents. Row homes on the eastern side are well over a million and limited prek and daycare means lots of expensive nanny or nanny shares with activities. Parents are definitely more competitive though they pretend not to be.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Parents who don't care about hundreds, possibly thousands, of high SES DCPS families bolting from the system for good after this miserable school year of 100% DL for most are the kind who cut off their noses to spite their faces. They will need luck.

Gross over-estimation of your value but you do you.

+1

No individual family is that important, but the problem is that it can turn into a snowball effect. UMC people see other UMC people leaving, and decide they need to bail, too, because they want to see a critical mass of high-performing kids in order to entrust their own to the system.

There is nothing wrong with middle and low income minorities. Because that is really what you are describing, isn’t it? “Educational white flight.”

No, PP is describing educational UMC flight, white, black, Asian, Latino. Grow up.

No sorry UNW parents who make this argument mean specifically white kids. Be honest because you aren’t.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do the super rich of dc really make decisions based on others moving? I’m going to sell my multi million dollar home and uproot my kids because of keeping up w the Joneses?

I really can’t believe they are that thick.

The “super rich” don’t send their kids to DCPS.

This, but the PP is also missing the point completely if they think this is about “keeping up with the Joneses”.

Exactly. No one lives on Capitol Hill to really keep up with the “Joneses”. Most people don’t choose narrow row houses with poor school choices in the upper grades. Or at least my parents weren’t millionaires when they raised us here. The area is more so a certain type of quirky, go against the grain idealist, city dweller type who values walkability. Many of those folks are also looking for a diverse environment for their kids.

This is not quite accurate for current hill parents. Row homes on the eastern side are well over a million and limited prek and daycare means lots of expensive nanny or nanny shares with activities. Parents are definitely more competitive though they pretend not to be.

I agree with you, but the PP is still missing the point. Leaving DCPS because other UMC people are leaving has nothing to do with “keeping up with the Joneses”. This isn’t about looks or prestige but about the educational environment for your kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do the super rich of dc really make decisions based on others moving? I’m going to sell my multi million dollar home and uproot my kids because of keeping up w the Joneses?

I really can’t believe they are that thick.

The “super rich” don’t send their kids to DCPS.

This, but the PP is also missing the point completely if they think this is about “keeping up with the Joneses”.

Exactly. No one lives on Capitol Hill to really keep up with the “Joneses”. Most people don’t choose narrow row houses with poor school choices in the upper grades. Or at least my parents weren’t millionaires when they raised us here. The area is more so a certain type of quirky, go against the grain idealist, city dweller type who values walkability. Many of those folks are also looking for a diverse environment for their kids.

This is not quite accurate for current hill parents. Row homes on the eastern side are well over a million and limited prek and daycare means lots of expensive nanny or nanny shares with activities. Parents are definitely more competitive though they pretend not to be.

It’s true, but I’d still argue, and this completely out of my azz, and it’s anonymous so who fking cares, and I know how much eye rolling this post will cause, but most parents who raise their kids on Capitol Hill, even those who raise them here but abscond for the suburbs for middle and high school care more about diversity in general than some cookie cutter folks who raised their kids in a safe little suburb like Annandale or some sht. It takes more grit to say “well there are still tons of carjackings, people openly smoke weed near the parks where my kid plays, and the city itself is using more lax on crime policies like youth rehabilitation act, or letting murderers out of jail at earlier ages in order to facilitate restorative justice, and thereby making my neighborhood more dangerous, but hey I’ll still stick this out. Not just because of the crime, the super liberal city council that may be causing crime to rise, or the poverty in the schools, ill stay because it’s a more real,diverse and equitable experience than shuttling my kids to a whiter suburban school with wealthier peers.”

Essentially, anyone raising their kids in Capitol Hill, EOTR and is of means has more balls than other folks who opt to immediately run to a safe suburb. So when these folks care about their kids learning in school and you all talk sht about how their racist or don’t care about social justice, you’re missing that they’re more

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Parents who don't care about hundreds, possibly thousands, of high SES DCPS families bolting from the system for good after this miserable school year of 100% DL for most are the kind who cut off their noses to spite their faces. They will need luck.

Gross over-estimation of your value but you do you.

+1

No individual family is that important, but the problem is that it can turn into a snowball effect. UMC people see other UMC people leaving, and decide they need to bail, too, because they want to see a critical mass of high-performing kids in order to entrust their own to the system.

There is nothing wrong with middle and low income minorities. Because that is really what you are describing, isn’t it? “Educational white flight.”

No, PP is describing educational UMC flight, white, black, Asian, Latino. Grow up.

No sorry UNW parents who make this argument mean specifically white kids. Be honest because you aren’t.

Wrong. How many times on this board do people talk about the UMC Black families living in Shepherd Park who send their kids private? I know this doesn’t fit your narrative but there it is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do the super rich of dc really make decisions based on others moving? I’m going to sell my multi million dollar home and uproot my kids because of keeping up w the Joneses?

I really can’t believe they are that thick.

The “super rich” don’t send their kids to DCPS.

This, but the PP is also missing the point completely if they think this is about “keeping up with the Joneses”.

Exactly. No one lives on Capitol Hill to really keep up with the “Joneses”. Most people don’t choose narrow row houses with poor school choices in the upper grades. Or at least my parents weren’t millionaires when they raised us here. The area is more so a certain type of quirky, go against the grain idealist, city dweller type who values walkability. Many of those folks are also looking for a diverse environment for their kids.

This is not quite accurate for current hill parents. Row homes on the eastern side are well over a million and limited prek and daycare means lots of expensive nanny or nanny shares with activities. Parents are definitely more competitive though they pretend not to be.

It’s true, but I’d still argue, and this completely out of my azz, and it’s anonymous so who fking cares, and I know how much eye rolling this post will cause, but most parents who raise their kids on Capitol Hill, even those who raise them here but abscond for the suburbs for middle and high school care more about diversity in general than some cookie cutter folks who raised their kids in a safe little suburb like Annandale or some sht. It takes more grit to say “well there are still tons of carjackings, people openly smoke weed near the parks where my kid plays, and the city itself is using more lax on crime policies like youth rehabilitation act, or letting murderers out of jail at earlier ages in order to facilitate restorative justice, and thereby making my neighborhood more dangerous, but hey I’ll still stick this out. Not just because of the crime, the super liberal city council that may be causing crime to rise, or the poverty in the schools, ill stay because it’s a more real,diverse and equitable experience than shuttling my kids to a whiter suburban school with wealthier peers.”

Essentially, anyone raising their kids in Capitol Hill, EOTR and is of means has more balls than other folks who opt to immediately run to a safe suburb. So when these folks care about their kids learning in school and you all talk sht about how their racist or don’t care about social justice, you’re missing that they’re more

True.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Parents who don't care about hundreds, possibly thousands, of high SES DCPS families bolting from the system for good after this miserable school year of 100% DL for most are the kind who cut off their noses to spite their faces. They will need luck.

Gross over-estimation of your value but you do you.

+1

No individual family is that important, but the problem is that it can turn into a snowball effect. UMC people see other UMC people leaving, and decide they need to bail, too, because they want to see a critical mass of high-performing kids in order to entrust their own to the system.

There is nothing wrong with middle and low income minorities. Because that is really what you are describing, isn’t it? “Educational white flight.”

No, PP is describing educational UMC flight, white, black, Asian, Latino. Grow up.

No sorry UNW parents who make this argument mean specifically white kids. Be honest because you aren’t.

Wrong. How many times on this board do people talk about the UMC Black families living in Shepherd Park who send their kids private? I know this doesn’t fit your narrative but there it is.

Ha, we're one of these families, but we're a pretty minscule segment of the UMC population in DC. I agree w/the other PP that usually UMC is indeed code for white, affluent families.