Would you move for Deal and J-R?

[Anonymous]

JR had one functioning bathroom for months last year, right?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:We have been very pleased with Deal and do not understand why in-bound families pay $50-60k per year for middle school. Our kids have received a great education at Deal. For the most part teachers are great and engaged. Good athletics and plentiful clubs (Model UN, debate, student government, screenwriters club, Anime club, robotics team, etc...). We will save our money by not sending to privates and invest it for our kids. Plan is to send oldest to JR next year. Sure it is a big urban public high school which comes with its own set of problems but the families we know who have sent their kids there liked it. They got a solid education and got into solid colleges. I suppose if your child is not a good student or has a tendency to get in with a bad crowd, JR might not be a good option. But then again private will not magically fix those things for your child either.

Deal refused to engage with us regarding our child's IEP.
The 6th grader AP would not respond to emails unless I cc'd the Principal.
I had meetings set up with the 6th grade AP when I had coordinated with outside service providers to attend the meeting. Confirmed the meeting before and the 6th grade AP would no longer be available when we got to school.
I game playing was exhaustive.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:JR had one functioning bathroom for months last year, right?

For 2000 students?

Correct.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Would the posters who have shared so far prefer Deal to Hardy?

I’m not in ward 3 but no brainer Deal if you have a higher performing kid. Deal has a much larger cohort of higher performing kids and so does JR by far. Both also have much more programming with extracurriculars, sports, etc… compared to Hardy and MA.

MA is new and also not getting a lot of buy in from IB families.

I love DC but if we had not gotten into immersion charter and DCI, I would have moved to VA for schools and not upper NW.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Would the posters who have shared so far prefer Deal to Hardy?

I’m not in ward 3 but no brainer Deal if you have a higher performing kid. Deal has a much larger cohort of higher performing kids and so does JR by far. Both also have much more programming with extracurriculars, sports, etc… compared to Hardy and MA.

MA is new and also not getting a lot of buy in from IB families.

I love DC but if we had not gotten into immersion charter and DCI, I would have moved to VA for schools and not upper NW.

We are a ward 3 Hardy family and hard disagree. Would never have sent our child to Deal or JR - have heard the horror stories! They are just too big and chaotic for our family. Hardy has been phenomenal.

We are excited for MacArthur as it has reduced pressure to find a private for DD after Hardy. The smaller size and engaged faculty is exactly what we are looking for. Programming is growing year by year and the renovations/additions are progress nicely.

[Anonymous]

I'd move for Hardy/MacArthur I think. Smaller is better.

[Anonymous]

I think both Deal and Hardy are solid middle schools.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I would take the Kalorama Triangle portion of Adams Morgan (OA) or neighborhoods along CT or Wisconsin Ave that feed to Deal over Mt Pleasant. I have never understood all the Mt Pleasant praise. Geographically it feels like an isolated little island with a tiny main drag penned in by chaotic Columbia Heights. Of course, it is nice to be right on the park but to me that seems to be the sole benefit. Parts of it are quite far from metro, etc.

The “tiny main drag” offers plenty along with real city charm and isn’t the strip mall atmosphere of CT or Wisconsin Avenue. It also has far less traffic and isn’t a commuter route. And, again, it actually has racial and economic diversity.

Finally, it’s a quick walk to Adams Morgan and Columbia Heights.

You couldn’t pay me to live in Upper Caucasia. I don’t care if those neighborhoods have DC addresses. They’re the suburbs.

This is really mean spirited. I have lots of friends who have made the move to upper NW. They are still the same people who lived near me in Shaw, and now they have less anxiety about schools than the rest of us. It's not a huge deal.

In my experience (37 years living in DC), the people who think “Upper Caucasia” is edgy humor are the biggest racists in this city. They’re just too unexceptional to get out of their sad current circumstances, as is proven by using a term that was briefly funny when City Paper coined it in like 2001.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I would take the Kalorama Triangle portion of Adams Morgan (OA) or neighborhoods along CT or Wisconsin Ave that feed to Deal over Mt Pleasant. I have never understood all the Mt Pleasant praise. Geographically it feels like an isolated little island with a tiny main drag penned in by chaotic Columbia Heights. Of course, it is nice to be right on the park but to me that seems to be the sole benefit. Parts of it are quite far from metro, etc.

The “tiny main drag” offers plenty along with real city charm and isn’t the strip mall atmosphere of CT or Wisconsin Avenue. It also has far less traffic and isn’t a commuter route. And, again, it actually has racial and economic diversity.

Finally, it’s a quick walk to Adams Morgan and Columbia Heights.

You couldn’t pay me to live in Upper Caucasia. I don’t care if those neighborhoods have DC addresses. They’re the suburbs.

This is really mean spirited. I have lots of friends who have made the move to upper NW. They are still the same people who lived near me in Shaw, and now they have less anxiety about schools than the rest of us. It's not a huge deal.

In my experience (37 years living in DC), the people who think “Upper Caucasia” is edgy humor are the biggest racists in this city. They’re just too unexceptional to get out of their sad current circumstances, as is proven by using a term that was briefly funny when City Paper coined it in like 2001.

Struck a nerve, eh?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I would take the Kalorama Triangle portion of Adams Morgan (OA) or neighborhoods along CT or Wisconsin Ave that feed to Deal over Mt Pleasant. I have never understood all the Mt Pleasant praise. Geographically it feels like an isolated little island with a tiny main drag penned in by chaotic Columbia Heights. Of course, it is nice to be right on the park but to me that seems to be the sole benefit. Parts of it are quite far from metro, etc.

The “tiny main drag” offers plenty along with real city charm and isn’t the strip mall atmosphere of CT or Wisconsin Avenue. It also has far less traffic and isn’t a commuter route. And, again, it actually has racial and economic diversity.

Finally, it’s a quick walk to Adams Morgan and Columbia Heights.

You couldn’t pay me to live in Upper Caucasia. I don’t care if those neighborhoods have DC addresses. They’re the suburbs.

This is really mean spirited. I have lots of friends who have made the move to upper NW. They are still the same people who lived near me in Shaw, and now they have less anxiety about schools than the rest of us. It's not a huge deal.

In my experience (37 years living in DC), the people who think “Upper Caucasia” is edgy humor are the biggest racists in this city. They’re just too unexceptional to get out of their sad current circumstances, as is proven by using a term that was briefly funny when City Paper coined it in like 2001.

Struck a nerve, eh?

I'm a different poster. But I've also found that white liberals living EOTP who use phrases like "upper caucasia" are some of the worst people on earth.

Thank god this is an anonymous forum bc I still live EOTP myself. But the people who think they are the solution to their schools problems by virtue of their whiteness end up harboring all kinds of racist views about the people they are "helping."

Everyone else (upper NW, charter schools) has more moral clarity bc they are often just thinking "I want to send my kid to the best functioning school that I can."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I'd move for Hardy/MacArthur I think. Smaller is better.

+1. The size of Hardy is perfect.

-Hardy family

[Anonymous]

We’re an OOB Deal/JR feeder family and if I could choose, I’d do Hardy then JR. Mac may develop into a great school, but I’m just not confident it will in time for my kids. Particularly not under this Administration with the chaos it’s causing locally.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I would take the Kalorama Triangle portion of Adams Morgan (OA) or neighborhoods along CT or Wisconsin Ave that feed to Deal over Mt Pleasant. I have never understood all the Mt Pleasant praise. Geographically it feels like an isolated little island with a tiny main drag penned in by chaotic Columbia Heights. Of course, it is nice to be right on the park but to me that seems to be the sole benefit. Parts of it are quite far from metro, etc.

The “tiny main drag” offers plenty along with real city charm and isn’t the strip mall atmosphere of CT or Wisconsin Avenue. It also has far less traffic and isn’t a commuter route. And, again, it actually has racial and economic diversity.

Finally, it’s a quick walk to Adams Morgan and Columbia Heights.

You couldn’t pay me to live in Upper Caucasia. I don’t care if those neighborhoods have DC addresses. They’re the suburbs.

This is really mean spirited. I have lots of friends who have made the move to upper NW. They are still the same people who lived near me in Shaw, and now they have less anxiety about schools than the rest of us. It's not a huge deal.

In my experience (37 years living in DC), the people who think “Upper Caucasia” is edgy humor are the biggest racists in this city. They’re just too unexceptional to get out of their sad current circumstances, as is proven by using a term that was briefly funny when City Paper coined it in like 2001.

Struck a nerve, eh?

I'm a different poster. But I've also found that white liberals living EOTP who use phrases like "upper caucasia" are some of the worst people on earth.

Thank god this is an anonymous forum bc I still live EOTP myself. But the people who think they are the solution to their schools problems by virtue of their whiteness end up harboring all kinds of racist views about the people they are "helping."

Everyone else (upper NW, charter schools) has more moral clarity bc they are often just thinking "I want to send my kid to the best functioning school that I can."

I don't know about more moral clarity. I think sometimes people in upper NW are so removed from the rest of the city that they end up downplaying real problems and judging people seeking solutions.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I would take the Kalorama Triangle portion of Adams Morgan (OA) or neighborhoods along CT or Wisconsin Ave that feed to Deal over Mt Pleasant. I have never understood all the Mt Pleasant praise. Geographically it feels like an isolated little island with a tiny main drag penned in by chaotic Columbia Heights. Of course, it is nice to be right on the park but to me that seems to be the sole benefit. Parts of it are quite far from metro, etc.

The “tiny main drag” offers plenty along with real city charm and isn’t the strip mall atmosphere of CT or Wisconsin Avenue. It also has far less traffic and isn’t a commuter route. And, again, it actually has racial and economic diversity.

Finally, it’s a quick walk to Adams Morgan and Columbia Heights.

You couldn’t pay me to live in Upper Caucasia. I don’t care if those neighborhoods have DC addresses. They’re the suburbs.

This is really mean spirited. I have lots of friends who have made the move to upper NW. They are still the same people who lived near me in Shaw, and now they have less anxiety about schools than the rest of us. It's not a huge deal.

In my experience (37 years living in DC), the people who think “Upper Caucasia” is edgy humor are the biggest racists in this city. They’re just too unexceptional to get out of their sad current circumstances, as is proven by using a term that was briefly funny when City Paper coined it in like 2001.

Struck a nerve, eh?

I'm a different poster. But I've also found that white liberals living EOTP who use phrases like "upper caucasia" are some of the worst people on earth.

Thank god this is an anonymous forum bc I still live EOTP myself. But the people who think they are the solution to their schools problems by virtue of their whiteness end up harboring all kinds of racist views about the people they are "helping."

Everyone else (upper NW, charter schools) has more moral clarity bc they are often just thinking "I want to send my kid to the best functioning school that I can."

I don’t think I’m the “solution” to my kids’ schools by a long shot. We also don’t send our kids to our EOTP schools to “help” anyone else.

We just happen to think that the schools are working well for our kids and that they don’t need to run to Upper Caucasia for a good education.

[Anonymous]

Yes, we had friends who were local IB EOTP all the way with all their neighborhood friends. Then they got into the charter they wanted and forgot about that IB school. All about the charter and feeding into the charter MS. Then they switched to private. WOTP. For $50k/yr.

But they still talk about how living EOTP is so cool and they love their diverse neighborhood and their neighbors.

Just not enough to send their kids to school with the neighbor kids.