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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

I mean, you’re just making my point for me. OP if you are the kind of person who self-identifies as “urban” and it doesn’t give you pause that adults who work in NoMa find it sketchy- then it’s a good plan for you (assuming you also win the lottery ñ!)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

Oooh, burn!

I’m the PP who moved to the area before “NoMa” existed, when Union Market was wholesale. Has the area changed drastically? Yes. Is it a place the majority would be comfortable having their middle schooler commute solo? Not so sure about that.

Throwing shade about suburbia does not really make you look confident in your argument.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

Oooh, burn!

I’m the PP who moved to the area before “NoMa” existed, when Union Market was wholesale. Has the area changed drastically? Yes. Is it a place the majority would be comfortable having their middle schooler commute solo? Not so sure about that.

Throwing shade about suburbia does not really make you look confident in your argument.

Most Basis and Latin kids on the Hill and in NoMa commute alone. It is OK if your kids are afraid. Also, if you live North of NY Ave then you live "technically" in NoMa, but not what most of us consider to be the SoFlo part of NoMa. I wouldn't live where you live either, but I love where I live.

P.S. I bough my home here before the metro opened in 2004 also. It was cheap. You made a bad choice. I feel bad for you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

Oooh, burn!

I’m the PP who moved to the area before “NoMa” existed, when Union Market was wholesale. Has the area changed drastically? Yes. Is it a place the majority would be comfortable having their middle schooler commute solo? Not so sure about that.

Throwing shade about suburbia does not really make you look confident in your argument.

Most Basis and Latin kids on the Hill and in NoMa commute alone. It is OK if your kids are afraid. Also, if you live North of NY Ave then you live "technically" in NoMa, but not what most of us consider to be the SoFlo part of NoMa. I wouldn't live where you live either, but I love where I live.

P.S. I bough my home here before the metro opened in 2004 also. It was cheap. You made a bad choice. I feel bad for you.

Bless your heart.

[Anonymous]

i wouldn't personally want my middle school child commuting by themselves through that stretch of noma. but in this particular hypothetical why not just avoid that particular commute by going to hobson? (i admittedly somewhat self-identify as urban, skew anti-charter, and at some level just don't get it)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:i wouldn't personally want my middle school child commuting by themselves through that stretch of noma. but in this particular hypothetical why not just avoid that particular commute by going to hobson? (i admittedly somewhat self-identify as urban, skew anti-charter, and at some level just don't get it)

I think it’s a realistic plan but then you still have HS to consider.

[Anonymous]

walls, banneker, or mckinley tech. (walls is preferred but as a backup since walls us not guaranteed it seems like nearly anyone who would prefer to go to mckinley over eastern can)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

Oooh, burn!

I’m the PP who moved to the area before “NoMa” existed, when Union Market was wholesale. Has the area changed drastically? Yes. Is it a place the majority would be comfortable having their middle schooler commute solo? Not so sure about that.

Throwing shade about suburbia does not really make you look confident in your argument.

Most Basis and Latin kids on the Hill and in NoMa commute alone. It is OK if your kids are afraid. Also, if you live North of NY Ave then you live "technically" in NoMa, but not what most of us consider to be the SoFlo part of NoMa. I wouldn't live where you live either, but I love where I live.

P.S. I bough my home here before the metro opened in 2004 also. It was cheap. You made a bad choice. I feel bad for you.

If only I could have bought a house when I was 10.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

Oooh, burn!

I’m the PP who moved to the area before “NoMa” existed, when Union Market was wholesale. Has the area changed drastically? Yes. Is it a place the majority would be comfortable having their middle schooler commute solo? Not so sure about that.

Throwing shade about suburbia does not really make you look confident in your argument.

Most Basis and Latin kids on the Hill and in NoMa commute alone. It is OK if your kids are afraid. Also, if you live North of NY Ave then you live "technically" in NoMa, but not what most of us consider to be the SoFlo part of NoMa. I wouldn't live where you live either, but I love where I live.

P.S. I bough my home here before the metro opened in 2004 also. It was cheap. You made a bad choice. I feel bad for you.

If only I could have bought a house when I was 10.

Then you are too young by DCUM standards to have a middle schooler.

[Anonymous]

All the hand wringing and doom & gloom on this thread from parents who claim they have no choice but to move to the burbs over MS and HS quality is ridiculous.

If you're determined to dig in to stay, you'll find a way forward. You'll figure out how to get your 6th grader to and from DCI safely, or you'll give Latin Cooper a try, or Inspired Teaching, or Two Rivers, or CH Montessori, or Jefferson Academy or whatever. You may pay to supplement with tutors, Kumon Math and on-line courses. You may fork out for a parochial middle school. You'll hope for Walls, keep an open mind about Banneker and McKinley Tech, maybe even opt to rent in the burbs for HS before returning home to the Hill as an empty nester.

If you're not committed to staying, you'll crumble and leave forever. We've been on the Hill since the 1990s, so we know that there are really only 2 types of middle-class parents with young children here. Those hell bent on staying in the long-run and those on the fence who wind up leaving in the absence of serious lottery luck in 4th grade (read for Latin 1 or BASIS).

Not too hard to tell which camp you're in.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All the hand wringing and doom & gloom on this thread from parents who claim they have no choice but to move to the burbs over MS and HS quality is ridiculous.

If you're determined to dig in to stay, you'll find a way forward. You'll figure out how to get your 6th grader to and from DCI safely, or you'll give Latin Cooper a try, or Inspired Teaching, or Two Rivers, or CH Montessori, or Jefferson Academy or whatever. You may pay to supplement with tutors, Kumon Math and on-line courses. You may fork out for a parochial middle school. You'll hope for Walls, keep an open mind about Banneker and McKinley Tech, maybe even opt to rent in the burbs for HS before returning home to the Hill as an empty nester.

If you're not committed to staying, you'll crumble and leave forever. We've been on the Hill since the 1990s, so we know that there are really only 2 types of middle-class parents with young children here. Those hell bent on staying in the long-run and those on the fence who wind up leaving in the absence of serious lottery luck in 4th grade (read for Latin 1 or BASIS).

Not too hard to tell which camp you're in.

You are discounting the amount of mental thought and energy the school process takes up in DC. It is exhausting.

[Anonymous]

If you have boys and some money for private, Gonzaga might be an option for high school

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:All the hand wringing and doom & gloom on this thread from parents who claim they have no choice but to move to the burbs over MS and HS quality is ridiculous.

If you're determined to dig in to stay, you'll find a way forward. You'll figure out how to get your 6th grader to and from DCI safely, or you'll give Latin Cooper a try, or Inspired Teaching, or Two Rivers, or CH Montessori, or Jefferson Academy or whatever. You may pay to supplement with tutors, Kumon Math and on-line courses. You may fork out for a parochial middle school. You'll hope for Walls, keep an open mind about Banneker and McKinley Tech, maybe even opt to rent in the burbs for HS before returning home to the Hill as an empty nester.

If you're not committed to staying, you'll crumble and leave forever. We've been on the Hill since the 1990s, so we know that there are really only 2 types of middle-class parents with young children here. Those hell bent on staying in the long-run and those on the fence who wind up leaving in the absence of serious lottery luck in 4th grade (read for Latin 1 or BASIS).

Not too hard to tell which camp you're in.

That's very 1990s/2000s thinking about families and schools in DC and on the Hill.

[Anonymous]

What do you mean by 1990s/2000s thinking when there are more options to stay on the Hill for MS these days than there were even 5 years ago. Pretty clearly, those with manageable mortgages are in a better position to stay than those without. That element makes sense to me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:All the hand wringing and doom & gloom on this thread from parents who claim they have no choice but to move to the burbs over MS and HS quality is ridiculous.

If you're determined to dig in to stay, you'll find a way forward. You'll figure out how to get your 6th grader to and from DCI safely, or you'll give Latin Cooper a try, or Inspired Teaching, or Two Rivers, or CH Montessori, or Jefferson Academy or whatever. You may pay to supplement with tutors, Kumon Math and on-line courses. You may fork out for a parochial middle school. You'll hope for Walls, keep an open mind about Banneker and McKinley Tech, maybe even opt to rent in the burbs for HS before returning home to the Hill as an empty nester.

If you're not committed to staying, you'll crumble and leave forever. We've been on the Hill since the 1990s, so we know that there are really only 2 types of middle-class parents with young children here. Those hell bent on staying in the long-run and those on the fence who wind up leaving in the absence of serious lottery luck in 4th grade (read for Latin 1 or BASIS).

Not too hard to tell which camp you're in.

You are discounting the amount of mental thought and energy the school process takes up in DC. It is exhausting.

Not discounting it at all. But you either suck the hassle up or you go. Worth it to fight to stay on the Hill for some families, not for many others. At least half the UMC families with kids seem to bail somewhere between K and 9th grades.