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Which DC public or charter school should Michelle send her kids to
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Anonymous
| Having a go, I think. Sad, twisted person with a lot of unresolved issues so she vents anonymously on places like this.... |
Anonymous
| Either way, she just needs attention and it's best not to give it to her. |
Anonymous
| I'd think gtown side... |
Anonymous
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Oyster
Janney Murch Mann Lafayette Key |
Anonymous
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Elsie Whitlow Stokes
Yu Ying (I'm not the booster, but can we really leave it out?) |
Anonymous
| Thomson Elementary and they could walk there. It would be very green. |
Anonymous
they're too old for yu ying that's only up to kindergarten now |
Anonymous
| The only public I would send my kids to is Mann but we dont live in boundary. |
Anonymous
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I think it was perfectly legitimate for someone to post, "She's not going to send them to public." If her kids are in private in Illinois and the public school system there is better than here (which it is), it's a perfectly sane response to say she wouldn't send them to public here. I don't think it's casting aspersions, I think it's just logic. Sort of like if she's had a nanny in Illinois and now she's moving here, I wouldn't expect her to all of a sudden be looking at daycare.
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Anonymous
| Do we know anything about the public school options in their neighborhood in Chicago? This could influence why they went private there. Supposedly they live in a "borderline" neighborhood, really mixed economically. That could be good or bad for the local public school. |
Anonymous
Perhaps, but she could have made her argument in a saner way. A lot of people were reacting to her, not to her argument as much. |
Anonymous
Curious--why did you swear not to be a booster? |
Anonymous
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Because of the reactions of other posters to somebody who kept posting to boost her school -- it seems that you lose credibility. I didn't actually think she was so bad, and if nothing else I learned something, i.e. that a parent just loved their kid's particular school. But other posters apparently didn't share this view.
In any case my DC charter kid is in middle school, so it wouldn't help answer the question here. |
Anonymous
| PP here. I should add that we love the public charter middle school in question. |
Anonymous
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Don't forget that for security reasons, they might have to select a place that has a physical plant that can accommodate Secret Service. I think that's part of why C Clinton went to Sidwell.
Oyster would be the top pick, followed by Haynes, Mann, or Janney, but you can't get into Oyster after 2d grade because of the language learning gap. I'm surprised at all of the private school bias. Yes, the private schools are good, and unfortunately most people in DC don't have access to great schools, but children at DC's top elementary schools perform just as well as children in prep schools, and they get intangibles that you don't get in prep school. At Oyster and Haynes they get the gift of a diverse student body who can open their minds to different ways of living. One or two token scholarship students can't provide that. Both choices are acceptable, but why get so hostile to those of us who love our public schools? |