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Anonymous
| im a little confused by the lottery comment. if you really want but dont get latin/basis for 5th, i would think return to your in-bound elementary and spend the next year figuring it out |
Anonymous
| 750K for a 3-bedroom. The Brent District wasn't nearly as pricey 10 years ago as it is now, and there were still banged up houses to buy. |
Anonymous
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More like $1-1.5m if you want to live near Brent.
We paid even more for a 4 BR. |
Anonymous
Why are you posting on the DC public school forum, DC hater? 😡 |
Anonymous
Yes, now. Not always the case, duh. |
Anonymous
Hater? We love Palisades and Key. Almost bought on Capitol Hill but weren't as impressed with the academics at Maury or Brent. |
Anonymous
But isn't that the whole point? You were lucky to be able to buy IB for Brent for 750k before price went up and you would have been priced out. Other families who bought later did get priced out. And the same thing is true for every desirable DCPS on the Hill. Which is why it is absurd when people are like "No, it's not about money and luck -- I went to PTO meetings and found the right school when it was on the upswing and my kid goes to one of the best elementaries on the Hill for no other reason than that I'm smarter than other people." Like, come on. You bought before prices went insane. That's not skill. It's luck. |
Anonymous
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Whatever. More good timing and strategizing than luck. Some of us who bought early did so because we had a strong hunch that we'd be priced out of the neighborhood if we waited. We put crazy amounts of work into really banged up houses and dealt with more crime and other urban hassles than you get when you buy in-boundary now. Plus I'm not sure how lucky parents who bought early feel when they don't like their public middle school options after 4th grade.
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Anonymous
You are a massive tool if you were "not impressed with the academics at Maurey and Brent." Brent especially is a high SES, white school. Same demo as JKLM and same testing results for that population. Now MS and HS, yes. Assuming you want to or are willing to live in NW-Burbia then that's a no brainer. I have this image of you and the spouse sitting at your kitchen table assessing how PK4 kids used paintbrushes. Thanks for the laugh. |
Anonymous
Enjoy Hardy and JR! |
Anonymous
I love how NW is burbia and CH is so urban. Yes CH has a drag (Penn and 8th) of restaurants, grocery, and shops, but outside of that, all there is a a lot of houses that are closer together. No different than folks that live close to Wisconsin Ave or Georgetown. I’d argue that GP > Cap Hill in terms of “urban” but what ever you need to feel good about your purchase. -I live off Georgia Ave and have no dog in this debate |
Anonymous
Hate to break it to you, PP, but many upper grades Brent parents agree with the massive tool. We've been at Brent for 9 years. The inconvenient freagin truth is that Brent's academics lag behind those in the Upper NW DCPS schools despite similar demographics. The gap isn't small. Just look at Brent's PARCC scores for white kids for the 5 years before the pandemic. Now look at that scores that came out of Mann, Key, Murch, Lafayette and Janney. Maury's academics are better than Brent's, but nowhere near Upper NW levels. |
Anonymous
| True. |
Anonymous
While you enjoy Eliot-Hine, Jefferson, Stuart Hobson and Eastern, or run off to distant charters without serious academics, facilities or both. |
Anonymous
No more JR for them, it’s Hardy and TBD MacArthur High |