How hard is is in DC if you're not zoned for a good school, really?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I totally agree! People are SO judgemental not just in here but even in real life. I come across this NOW when I tell collegues/friends that I am moving from safe and quiet Loudoun County to Petworth and I will put my 2 chilren in public school there. I am happy about my decision.

If you have kids you only live in petworth if you are going to do private. You are saving money on the location so private is the safest bet for your kids education.

I know a large number of parents who live in Petworth, love their kids, and send them to public or charter schools.

This is a first time experiment that I am not willing to roll the dice for my kids. I will work an extra job to be sure my kids go to private or live in a better school distrit.

http://www.spotcrime.com/dc/washington/petworth

http://www.greatschools.org/washington-dc/washington/8-Roosevelt-Senior-High-School/

http://www.greatschools.org/washington-dc/washington/99-Powell-Elementary-School/


http://www.greatschools.org/washington-dc/washington/257-Hospitality-PCS/

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I totally agree! People are SO judgemental not just in here but even in real life. I come across this NOW when I tell collegues/friends that I am moving from safe and quiet Loudoun County to Petworth and I will put my 2 chilren in public school there. I am happy about my decision.

If you have kids you only live in petworth if you are going to do private. You are saving money on the location so private is the safest bet for your kids education.

I know a large number of parents who live in Petworth, love their kids, and send them to public or charter schools.

This is a first time experiment that I am not willing to roll the dice for my kids. I will work an extra job to be sure my kids go to private or live in a better school distrit.

http://www.spotcrime.com/dc/washington/petworth

http://www.greatschools.org/washington-dc/washington/8-Roosevelt-Senior-High-School/

http://www.greatschools.org/washington-dc/washington/99-Powell-Elementary-School/


http://www.greatschools.org/washington-dc/washington/257-Hospitality-PCS/

I doubt these are the publics pp was talking about.

[Anonymous]

When we moved downtown, I applied to 2 private schools and 2 charters for preK. DC got into all. The immersion language charter was our first choice and would have been even if we moved to JKLMM. Would have sent to private if we did not get into the charter even if we moved in-bounds.
Living downtown/urban works for us. So different strokes for different folks.

[Anonymous]

First, your crime map link shows crimes committed west of Georgia Ave, in 16th St Heights. You might want to get a clue about geography.

And oops, you're posting data on schools west of Georgia, too.

I'm in Petworth, in bounds for Powell, and I agree that the school's scores are bad. I've also met the campus & cluster principals, both of whom are working like dogs to improve the school. I'm still not sending my kids there, largely because I got lucky in charter lotteries early on, but I would have been ok with it for PS3 & PK.

Participating in public education while living in Petworth requires patience, a lack of prejudice, perseverence or luck, sometimes all four. And yet there are many of us who do it. Please stop telling me that my friends & I don't exist.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I totally agree! People are SO judgemental not just in here but even in real life. I come across this NOW when I tell collegues/friends that I am moving from safe and quiet Loudoun County to Petworth and I will put my 2 chilren in public school there. I am happy about my decision.

If you have kids you only live in petworth if you are going to do private. You are saving money on the location so private is the safest bet for your kids education.

I know a large number of parents who live in Petworth, love their kids, and send them to public or charter schools.

This is a first time experiment that I am not willing to roll the dice for my kids. I will work an extra job to be sure my kids go to private or live in a better school distrit.

http://www.spotcrime.com/dc/washington/petworth

http://www.greatschools.org/washington-dc/washington/8-Roosevelt-Senior-High-School/

http://www.greatschools.org/washington-dc/washington/99-Powell-Elementary-School/


http://www.greatschools.org/washington-dc/washington/257-Hospitality-PCS/

Me neither. I would never consider the DCPS schools in my neighborhood. I did consider renting an apartment inbounds for either Oyster or Murch. Fortunately, we got in to one of the language immersion charter schools, and that made it all unnecessary. There are a number of really good charter options, and everyone seems to get lucky somehow.

[Anonymous]

Hill East. there are some really good elementary schools,

do tell.

tyler, payne, watkins....and close enough to brent, maury (no waiting list after Pre-K for most capitol hill schools).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:First, your crime map link shows crimes committed west of Georgia Ave, in 16th St Heights. You might want to get a clue about geography.

And oops, you're posting data on schools west of Georgia, too.

I'm in Petworth, in bounds for Powell, and I agree that the school's scores are bad. I've also met the campus & cluster principals, both of whom are working like dogs to improve the school. I'm still not sending my kids there, largely because I got lucky in charter lotteries early on, but I would have been ok with it for PS3 & PK.

Participating in public education while living in Petworth requires patience, a lack of prejudice, perseverence or luck, sometimes all four. And yet there are many of us who do it. Please stop telling me that my friends & I don't exist.

The problen is the Indigenous population. Until they move out or kill themselves off the dcps in those poor indigenous areas will never get to a passing level of 60 to 70 percent test scores let alone the fcps or Montgomery averages of 90%+. Dc should be pushing these people out not enabling them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:First, your crime map link shows crimes committed west of Georgia Ave, in 16th St Heights. You might want to get a clue about geography.

And oops, you're posting data on schools west of Georgia, too.

I'm in Petworth, in bounds for Powell, and I agree that the school's scores are bad. I've also met the campus & cluster principals, both of whom are working like dogs to improve the school. I'm still not sending my kids there, largely because I got lucky in charter lotteries early on, but I would have been ok with it for PS3 & PK.

Participating in public education while living in Petworth requires patience, a lack of prejudice, perseverence or luck, sometimes all four. And yet there are many of us who do it. Please stop telling me that my friends & I don't exist.

The problen is the Indigenous population. Until they move out or kill themselves off the dcps in those poor indigenous areas will never get to a passing level of 60 to 70 percent test scores let alone the fcps or Montgomery averages of 90%+. Dc should be pushing these people out not enabling them.

WOW. Just, wow.

Really? You're hoping poor people kill each other off? You are fucking scum.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:First, your crime map link shows crimes committed west of Georgia Ave, in 16th St Heights. You might want to get a clue about geography.

And oops, you're posting data on schools west of Georgia, too.

I'm in Petworth, in bounds for Powell, and I agree that the school's scores are bad. I've also met the campus & cluster principals, both of whom are working like dogs to improve the school. I'm still not sending my kids there, largely because I got lucky in charter lotteries early on, but I would have been ok with it for PS3 & PK.

Participating in public education while living in Petworth requires patience, a lack of prejudice, perseverence or luck, sometimes all four. And yet there are many of us who do it. Please stop telling me that my friends & I don't exist.

The problen is the Indigenous population. Until they move out or kill themselves off the dcps in those poor indigenous areas will never get to a passing level of 60 to 70 percent test scores let alone the fcps or Montgomery averages of 90%+. Dc should be pushing these people out not enabling them.

Are you f-ing kidding me?!?? What an idiot!!

[Anonymous]

I would never put it the way incendiary PP put it. But as with most polemic statements there IS a kernel of truth in there.

The schools that are measurably "improving" over time in DCPS and have stayed that way (ie, it wasn't ErasureGate) have "improved" because of gentrification. The former residents didn't kill each other with stolen handguns, but they did indeed move away and were replaced by younger college-educated white, black and Hispanic white residents who don't have babies at 13 (girl) or drop out at 13 (both) or join a gang at 13 (boy).

Show one single DCPS where this demographic shift wasn't behind the "school" "improving".

[Anonymous]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/crime-scene/post/three-hurt-in-morning-shootings-in-dc/2012/01/12/gIQAN2jStP_blog.html

Three hurt in morning shootings in D.C.

By Maggie Fazeli Fard and Paul Duggan


Three people were injured in Thursday morning shootings in Southeast D.C., police said.

Police believe there was an exchange of gunfire in the area of 6th St. and Alabama Avenue about 9:30 a.m. The victims scattered and were found at several nearby locations

[Anonymous]

Police probe sex assault

A woman was sexually assaulted at knifepoint in the Petworth area, D.C. police said. Police said a man accosted the woman while she was walking on the 900 block of Emerson Street NW at about 5 p.m. Tuesday, forced her into a van at knifepoint, then drove to the 1200 block of Delafield Place and sexually assaulted her.


Read more at the Washington Examiner: http://washingtonexaminer.com/local/crime-punishment/2011/12/blotter/2045556#ixzz1jeax7hB7

[Anonymous]

DC has tried to keep them in with programs like this, more subsidised housing than montgomery county, fairfax couny and arlington , yet they are all defaulting.

"The average home price for a subsidized buyer in the District as of late 2009 was about $230,000, but the program is far bigger than those in neighboring jurisdictions. Alexandria assisted 37 buyers and Montgomery 148 in 2010. Arlington has assisted 22 buyers since 2009.

The District in 2010 provided loans to 362 buyers. Records show the city ramped up its push to put low-income families into homes around 2006, as housing prices increased.
"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/in-dc-loan-program-mortgage-defaults-abound/2011/11/29/gIQAPt4Z1P_story_2.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DC has tried to keep them in with programs like this, more subsidised housing than montgomery county, fairfax couny and arlington , yet they are all defaulting.

"The average home price for a subsidized buyer in the District as of late 2009 was about $230,000, but the program is far bigger than those in neighboring jurisdictions. Alexandria assisted 37 buyers and Montgomery 148 in 2010. Arlington has assisted 22 buyers since 2009.

The District in 2010 provided loans to 362 buyers. Records show the city ramped up its push to put low-income families into homes around 2006, as housing prices increased.
"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/in-dc-loan-program-mortgage-defaults-abound/2011/11/29/gIQAPt4Z1P_story_2.html

What is wrong with helping low income people buy homes? Poor does not equal criminal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DC has tried to keep them in with programs like this, more subsidised housing than montgomery county, fairfax couny and arlington , yet they are all defaulting.

"The average home price for a subsidized buyer in the District as of late 2009 was about $230,000, but the program is far bigger than those in neighboring jurisdictions. Alexandria assisted 37 buyers and Montgomery 148 in 2010. Arlington has assisted 22 buyers since 2009.

The District in 2010 provided loans to 362 buyers. Records show the city ramped up its push to put low-income families into homes around 2006, as housing prices increased.
"

http://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/in-dc-loan-program-mortgage-defaults-abound/2011/11/29/gIQAPt4Z1P_story_2.html

Bad public schools and they can afford to live here even with assistance

What is wrong with helping low income people buy homes? Poor does not equal criminal.