NWDC and safety

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Well don’t send them there. Send them to Georgetown, Glover Park, Observatory Circle, Woodley Park, Cleveland Park, Forest Hills and Chevy Chase DC.

If there’s a serious budget limit, maybe the places you said like Cap Hill but not Mt Pleasant and Takoma.

None of these neighborhoods now fall into a “serious budget limit” neighborhood lol you people are out of touch

[Anonymous]

Bottom line: if you want public high school, any school in the Jackson-Reed high school boundary, except (1) avoid the far eastern elementary schools that may get redistricted; (2) avoid the cancer alley part of AU Park (WWII munitions); and (3) if you are adverse to jet noise, avoid palisades area under the flight path to the airport (and there is another poster out there that says the jet fumes are toxic, but that is another issue).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Bottom line: if you want public high school, any school in the Jackson-Reed high school boundary, except (1) avoid the far eastern elementary schools that may get redistricted; (2) avoid the cancer alley part of AU Park (WWII munitions); and (3) if you are adverse to jet noise, avoid palisades area under the flight path to the airport (and there is another poster out there that says the jet fumes are toxic, but that is another issue).

Or avoid anyone advising you what to avoid, especially when they claim they can predict future school boundaries and don’t know shit.

[Anonymous]

The person is not wrong at all. I'm just not sure if Macarthur HS might not end up being a blessing in disguise

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The person is not wrong at all. I'm just not sure if Macarthur HS might not end up being a blessing in disguise

Having trouble following the triple narrative, but why is MacArthur HS a potential blessing in disguise? And for who?

[Anonymous]

It's a new school and facility so if feeder schools bifurcate and now you have 2 good high schools with less overcrowding?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It's a new school and facility so if feeder schools bifurcate and now you have 2 good high schools with less overcrowding?

Oh got it. That’s pretty obvious - didn’t think it was in disguise!

I’m a little surprised how they’re drawing the boundaries to make JR super wealthy and MacArthur less so, as well as allowing more out of bounds students. Especially since JR is more accessible to most of DC

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think you will be happiest in north bethesda/Kensington/Garrett park. Yes they look/feel more sprawl-y than Cambridge (more akin to Somerville) but they still have walkability high end food stores etc. plus they are very safe with reliably good schools.

LOL. Op, let us know how your tour of North Bethesda, "the Somerville of DC," goes. I'm sure they have their own Winter Hill Gang, too.

[Anonymous]

East of Rock Creek Park in northern Ward 4, off 16th St. in the very northern tip of the District, are neighborhoods with a similar housing stock .... This is a historically integrated part of the city

Ok, but let's not whitewash some ugly history. This east of the Park area off 16th Street was largely settled by successful Jewish families since restrictive deed covenants prevented them from buying among gentiles west of Rock Creek Park before WWII. As many of those DC Jews joined the great American migration to the (Montgomery County) suburbs in the 1950s and 60s, prosperous Blacks moved in, and while they probably received a friendlier reception from the generally progressive Jews than they would have from the gentiles west of the Park, the 'tipping' demographic balance in that area then helped hasten the move of many of the remaining Jews to the suburbs.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think you will be happiest in north bethesda/Kensington/Garrett park. Yes they look/feel more sprawl-y than Cambridge (more akin to Somerville) but they still have walkability high end food stores etc. plus they are very safe with reliably good schools.

LOL. Op, let us know how your tour of North Bethesda, "the Somerville of DC," goes. I'm sure they have their own Winter Hill Gang, too.

Bethesdump!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

East of Rock Creek Park in northern Ward 4, off 16th St. in the very northern tip of the District, are neighborhoods with a similar housing stock .... This is a historically integrated part of the city

Ok, but let's not whitewash some ugly history. This east of the Park area off 16th Street was largely settled by successful Jewish families since restrictive deed covenants prevented them from buying among gentiles west of Rock Creek Park before WWII. As many of those DC Jews joined the great American migration to the (Montgomery County) suburbs in the 1950s and 60s, prosperous Blacks moved in, and while they probably received a friendlier reception from the generally progressive Jews than they would have from the gentiles west of the Park, the 'tipping' demographic balance in that area then helped hasten the move of many of the remaining Jews to the suburbs.

Well, yes, but major synagogues decided to stay put on upper 16th St. and Jews were in the leadership of Neighbors, Inc. I'd bet Colonial Village and Shepherd Park have the largest concentration of observant Jewish families in the District.

And there aren't many other neighborhoods in DC that have been significantly Black-White integrated for 60+ years. Most of the rest of the breakdown of residential race barriers in the city is far more recent than that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think you will be happiest in north bethesda/Kensington/Garrett park. Yes they look/feel more sprawl-y than Cambridge (more akin to Somerville) but they still have walkability high end food stores etc. plus they are very safe with reliably good schools.

LOL. Op, let us know how your tour of North Bethesda, "the Somerville of DC," goes. I'm sure they have their own Winter Hill Gang, too.

Plus 1! Somerville is the densest city in MA.

http://www.usa.com/rank/massachusetts-state--population-density--city-rank.htm

One thing about that nobody has mentioned is that the school systems aren’t as small as in Mass. There every city and town is its own school system.

Here, if you’re in DC there’s DCPS. But also tons of charters.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Adams Morgan is fine right now, there have been a couple incidents in the last several months but we feel very safe as a family. Look for the areas that are zoned for Oyster Adams.

Other areas that will feel safe and have good schools are are woodley park, Cleveland park, van ness, tenleytown, Chevy chase. All of them will feel more urban the closer you are to the main drag of shops in each area. Mount pleasant is lovely too. The hill is worth looking at, very different vibe but has lovely areas.

Avoid Columbia heights, petworth, parkview, brightwood, Shaw, Logan circle, Brentwood, noma. I know some people love these areas but I just can’t do it with the crime. And the schools.

I also live in Adams Morgan. It is not fine right now. Robberies are up specifically in our neighborhood by 95% over last year. https://www.axios.com/local/washington-dc/2023/10/03/dc-crime-by-neighborhood-2023

A group of 10-12-year-old kids in bicycles carjacked someone on Adams Mill the other evening. There are armed robberies often. Someone even tried to force our front door open last week.

[Anonymous]

Another carjacking in Forest Hills, there was a recent daytime weekend shooting on Brandywine too

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Adams Morgan is fine right now, there have been a couple incidents in the last several months but we feel very safe as a family. Look for the areas that are zoned for Oyster Adams.

Other areas that will feel safe and have good schools are are woodley park, Cleveland park, van ness, tenleytown, Chevy chase. All of them will feel more urban the closer you are to the main drag of shops in each area. Mount pleasant is lovely too. The hill is worth looking at, very different vibe but has lovely areas.

Avoid Columbia heights, petworth, parkview, brightwood, Shaw, Logan circle, Brentwood, noma. I know some people love these areas but I just can’t do it with the crime. And the schools.

I also live in Adams Morgan. It is not fine right now. Robberies are up specifically in our neighborhood by 95% over last year. https://www.axios.com/local/washington-dc/2023/10/03/dc-crime-by-neighborhood-2023

A group of 10-12-year-old kids in bicycles carjacked someone on Adams Mill the other evening. There are armed robberies often. Someone even tried to force our front door open last week.

NP, at least one of the young kids had a gun. This was in broad daylight, behind the zoo in the Lanier Heights part of Adams Morgan in the early evening.