Thoughts on Petworth for a young family?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:We have lived in Petworth for three years and love it. It’s perfect with kids. There are tons od community events and we’ve made a lot of friends. We joke it’s a small town in the big city, as we see friends at the park, on walks, at the grocery, etc.

Our kid goes to a charter, but we felt very comfortable sending her to Barnard, our IB. Sure, when she’s in 4-5th grade, we’ll need to reevaulate on MS/HS, but that is still 5 years away and a lot can change in that time.

Very easy to say you would be happy IB when you are actually at a charter. Actions speak louder than words.

Well, we actually did enroll at Barnard and had planned to aend her there. Midsummer we got a call from a Montessori, which was our preference. If Montessori doesn’t work, I’ll gladly put her back into Barnard.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We have lived in Petworth for three years and love it. It’s perfect with kids. There are tons od community events and we’ve made a lot of friends. We joke it’s a small town in the big city, as we see friends at the park, on walks, at the grocery, etc.

Our kid goes to a charter, but we felt very comfortable sending her to Barnard, our IB. Sure, when she’s in 4-5th grade, we’ll need to reevaulate on MS/HS, but that is still 5 years away and a lot can change in that time.

Very easy to say you would be happy IB when you are actually at a charter. Actions speak louder than words.

Well, we actually did enroll at Barnard and had planned to aend her there. Midsummer we got a call from a Montessori, which was our preference. If Montessori doesn’t work, I’ll gladly put her back into Barnard.

Sure.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We have lived in Petworth for three years and love it. It’s perfect with kids. There are tons od community events and we’ve made a lot of friends. We joke it’s a small town in the big city, as we see friends at the park, on walks, at the grocery, etc.

Our kid goes to a charter, but we felt very comfortable sending her to Barnard, our IB. Sure, when she’s in 4-5th grade, we’ll need to reevaulate on MS/HS, but that is still 5 years away and a lot can change in that time.

Very easy to say you would be happy IB when you are actually at a charter. Actions speak louder than words.

Well, we actually did enroll at Barnard and had planned to aend her there. Midsummer we got a call from a Montessori, which was our preference. If Montessori doesn’t work, I’ll gladly put her back into Barnard.

Sure.

+1. I lived in close in DC for a long time (just recently moved for my kid to go to K) and have a lot of friends who have had kids in the city -- both through our direct friends, friends from preschool, people you meet around the neighborhood doing kids things. I have been hearing for 15 of those years that "X school is really improving and we are open to sending our kids there when they reach kindergarten!" I have literally never had a single friend or acquaintance with a HHI above, say, $80k who kept their kid in K at any downtown public school except Ross. A handful got into charters (that was more common 5+ years ago --- in the past 5 years, i only know 1 or 2 families who got into a decent charter) and were able to stay. Other than that, not a single person i know kept their kids in public.  I'm sure there are 2 kids in K in each of the handful of schools that sometimes get mentioned here, and i've never met them. But that literally means like 12 kids in all of DC in any given year. This is not a trend to plan around.

[Anonymous]

Just because people aren’t posting here doesn’t mean they aren’t happy at their EOTP DCPS. I have a lot of friends whose kids go to schools like West, Barnard, Powell for K and beyond.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:You should ask the Prince of Petworth what he thinks of living in Petworth with a young child.

He moved a while ago. I live North of Petworth and see tons of families in Petworth these days. I believed he moved for schools.

Exactly. After being an obnoxious cheerleader for the neighborhood for a decade -- he had a cowardly habit of banning anyone who spoke badly of the neighborhood from commenting -- he moved WOTP literally the second he got zoned into a "bad" school. So if if the neighborhood doesn't work for a guy like that...

Homeless peeing on your playground is only urban chic for so long. Most people grow up and move west, that is if they can afford it. The ones stuck with a spouse in the food service industry role their eyes and talk about how diversity is important to them as they fight, claw and steal to lottery into less diverse schools and social circles.

This

[Anonymous]

Thanks everyone. This helps! I lived in DC from 2005-2010, when Petworth was a lot less safe. I’m glad it’s improving so much.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You should ask the Prince of Petworth what he thinks of living in Petworth with a young child.

He moved a while ago. I live North of Petworth and see tons of families in Petworth these days. I believed he moved for schools.

Exactly. After being an obnoxious cheerleader for the neighborhood for a decade -- he had a cowardly habit of banning anyone who spoke badly of the neighborhood from commenting -- he moved WOTP literally the second he got zoned into a "bad" school. So if if the neighborhood doesn't work for a guy like that...

a white guy who ran scared?

How does one reconcile the national narrative of white people are so mean, push everybody around and take the best of everything with the white fragility talking point. At worst POP made his site, pimped the homestead and made a tidey profit (instead of a OG resident) and took said windfall and moved to where 9/10 Washingtonians would like to live. Doesn’t sound very fragile to me while you people keep clicking away

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You should ask the Prince of Petworth what he thinks of living in Petworth with a young child.

He moved a while ago. I live North of Petworth and see tons of families in Petworth these days. I believed he moved for schools.

Exactly. After being an obnoxious cheerleader for the neighborhood for a decade -- he had a cowardly habit of banning anyone who spoke badly of the neighborhood from commenting -- he moved WOTP literally the second he got zoned into a "bad" school. So if if the neighborhood doesn't work for a guy like that...

a white guy who ran scared?

How does one reconcile the national narrative of white people are so mean, push everybody around and take the best of everything with the white fragility talking point. At worst POP made his site, pimped the homestead and made a tidey profit (instead of a OG resident) and took said windfall and moved to where 9/10 Washingtonians would like to live. Doesn’t sound very fragile to me while you people keep clicking away

Thanks for checking in, Dan. You can go back to running your clickbait garbage site now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:We have lived in Petworth for three years and love it. It’s perfect with kids. There are tons od community events and we’ve made a lot of friends. We joke it’s a small town in the big city, as we see friends at the park, on walks, at the grocery, etc.

Our kid goes to a charter, but we felt very comfortable sending her to Barnard, our IB. Sure, when she’s in 4-5th grade, we’ll need to reevaulate on MS/HS, but that is still 5 years away and a lot can change in that time.

Very easy to say you would be happy IB when you are actually at a charter. Actions speak louder than words.

+1. Note that no one has come in whose kids are actually happily attending a neighborhood school beyond ECE.

Hi, my kids go to West in elementary grades and they're doing great. I know other families whose kids have gone through the full elementary grades and some even through the middle school grades. I know other families with kids at Powell in elementary grades and they seem happy with it.

[Anonymous]

We live in Manor/Brightwook Park? I can't keep up with these neighborhood names, but we live off of 7th and Rittenhouse Street, but send our kids to a public in Petworth,

Kids are booming in my hood too if you want to put it on your list.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Just because people aren’t posting here doesn’t mean they aren’t happy at their EOTP DCPS. I have a lot of friends whose kids go to schools like West, Barnard, Powell for K and beyond.

I'm one of those parents with kids in 1st and 3rd. Kids are very happy and families are very engaged.

[Anonymous]

Let's put it this way: even the Prince of Petworth fled Petworth to avoid the violence and bad schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:You should ask the Prince of Petworth what he thinks of living in Petworth with a young child.

He moved a while ago. I live North of Petworth and see tons of families in Petworth these days. I believed he moved for schools.

Exactly. After being an obnoxious cheerleader for the neighborhood for a decade -- he had a cowardly habit of banning anyone who spoke badly of the neighborhood from commenting -- he moved WOTP literally the second he got zoned into a "bad" school. So if if the neighborhood doesn't work for a guy like that...

a white guy who ran scared?

How does one reconcile the national narrative of white people are so mean, push everybody around and take the best of everything with the white fragility talking point. At worst POP made his site, pimped the homestead and made a tidey profit (instead of a OG resident) and took said windfall and moved to where 9/10 Washingtonians would like to live. Doesn’t sound very fragile to me while you people keep clicking away

White fragility is explicitly about white people being unable to talk about race without retreating into "....but that wasn't my INTENT" and "I don't even see race."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Let's put it this way: even the Prince of Petworth fled Petworth to avoid the violence and bad schools.

"Even the prince "??

Many of us are far more hearty than he is. My kid can handle the routine stuff that happens at our EOTP.

[Anonymous]

Tons of young families are moving into our safe and quiet EOTP neighborhood, and now send their kids to our IB, Shepherd. In fact, there was a double-digit waitlist of IB kids for the two PK3 classes this year. IB and OOB families (including many from Petworth) seem to coexist peacefully; there's not a big divide like there seems to be at some other schools. There's a great community feel overall within the school.

The schools and neighborhoods are not all the Wild West EOTP.