Since the Lafayette Thread was Removed
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Anonymous
+1, it's all pre-packaged. I love TJ but not for the produce. And who has the self control to walk into WF and not spend your paycheck, not me! |
Anonymous
| I am extremely confused. Did the deleted Lafayette mom live EOTP or WOTP? Did she get in to Lafayette OOB, CMS, and IT?? What is a "food economist"? How can anyone claim Whole Foods is frugal? What is the liberal lifestyle, and how does it differ EOTP and WOTP? Thanks in advance! |
Anonymous
You are right, nobody, ever. It all goes straight in the trash, especially in Bethesda. 
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Anonymous
1) EOTP 2) Got a spot OOB at Lafayette K but has good wait list numbers at CMS and IT so expects she might get a spot at both. 3) Technically, that PP claimed to be a "food economist mom." Not sure what that entails. 4) Unclear, although I'd say basic generic stuff is about equal in cost. 5) I believe a liberal lifestyle means living a place deemed acceptable by hipsters and calculated by number of coffee shops, bars that serve PBR, and bearded men, so clearly not possible WOTP. |
Anonymous
I bet you're far more patient than I am as a mother pp. This was nice of you. |
Anonymous
How come nobody realized that this was tongue-in-cheek? |
Anonymous
| ^^sometimes people realize it, but find it fun to respond as if they didn't. |
Anonymous
But I missed the thread!!! It's NOT FAIR! |
Anonymous
New poster here. From EOTP.. I appreciate the OP outlining the ways that we're all pretty much the same. What I find offensive are the posts claiming that only parents who buy/rent WOTP are making responsible decisions. I realize that thaese are people suffering status envy - a citywide epidemic - but there's a prevalence of posts that suggest the only "right" decisions for schooling are JKLM. Which is just impossible for the majority of parents in DC. Yes, I take everything within these forums with a grain of salt. But the only path to equitable public schooling is a broader swath of households accepting and attending their neighborhood schools. Period. If you don't want overcrowding in your ward 3 schools, stop promoting them as the only responsible choices that parents can make. We're pretty content with our EOTP DCPS, and I think a lot of parents are discovering the same. It's an outcome we should all want because it broadens the field of choices. We just have to get a few people to stop acting like assholes. |
Anonymous
| I'm confused. I live EOTP and my house cost $350,000. Can I really get a house in a school WOTP in a good school district for the same price? Screw hipsterdom I would totally do that, if only for the yard. That's what you guys are saying, right? No difference? |
Anonymous
| I find that most threads on DCUM would have you believe the only responsible school choices are private schools, moving to the suburbs, or charter bilingual. And many of the people saying WOTP schools are the only credible option are not justifying their choice of a WOTP school, but rather to go charter, private, or move to the suburbs. |
Anonymous
There are definitely differences in many parts of the city. But not in some of the areas about which many people seem to complain. I have been in many public forums and listened to people living in areas of Capitol Hill, Logan Circle, Shaw, Mt. Pleasant, etc. complain about the arrogant, rich people living WOTP and attending JKLM schools. I live WOTP but could not afford the homes in which these people live. They often follow up with how great living in their area is because they have great access to entertainment and restaurant options, most of which I cannot afford either. Or they have a newly renovated house with a yard in Bloomingdale or Petworth. So they focus instead on how they couldn't afford the exact same kind of house WOTP and paint everyone living WOTP with one brush. Which ignores that many people WOTP live in apartments and sacrificed the house and the yard only to be viewed as rich the moment they say which school their children attend. |
Anonymous
I think you can agree that $350k is on the low end of what is available. Not all houses EOTP are $350k. Nor are all houses WOTP $1+ million. There is a lot in between, and a lot of similar prices ($700-800k). The point is that some people (not all people, clearly) pay the same amount for a house EOTP that others paid WOTP. That is not to say that either is the "right" choice. It's just not a universal truth that a WOTP person paid more for their house than an EOTP person. |
Anonymous
Sigh. I don't think that is what most people are saying (or at least me). The OP made it very clear that her priorities were walking to school and an easy commute to her/her husband's jobs. Never does she say that these are the only universally responsible choices, just that for her family and their commutes, those are the right choices. I am in the same boat (one of us works in VA, the other in DC). If that weren't the case we certainly would have looked in other neighborhoods. I had a friend who LOVES Brookland but her husband's commute would have been a nightmare so they looked elsewhere. I personally didn't want to commute across the city everyday for school, but I totally understand how people in my neighborhood who value bilingual education choose to do so to go to an immersion school. People use many different factors when they are deciding on housing and it doesn't automatically mean they are judging people who use different criteria for their choices. |
Anonymous
Um, yeah. You are not "confused." You know damn well that most houses EOTP cost more than $350k. But thanks for the sarcasm, it really helps support the image as EOTPers as smug and insufferable. |