Murch vs Lafayette vs Janney

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There's Janney... and then there's everything else.

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Anonymous wrote:There's Janney... and then there's everything else.

This sounds like a slogan in a used car dealership commercial. Are Janney moms really this horrible?

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No, it’s a troll. That line gets posted all the time.

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Anonymous wrote:There's Janney... and then there's everything else.

This sounds like a slogan in a used car dealership commercial. Are Janney moms really this horrible?

Don’t forget Mann, which surpassed Janney for years. Now both schools are considered in the top tier of publics. Lafayette is close behind, arguably in its own bracket, but not the top tier. Murch and Hearst are good and improved, but in next tier. Eaton, etc. rank lower than Murch and Hearst.

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Anonymous wrote:No, it’s a troll. That line gets posted all the time.

Agreed. Same poster. Zzzzz.

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Anonymous wrote:Truly, if your children would do well in one of these schools, they will do well in all of them. PPs have pointed out that Lafayette is huge, if that matters to you. Find a house you like in a neighborhood you like and your kids will do just fine.

Plenty of kids- and parents - in DC would give anything to have access to any one of these schools. You're very fortunate to be able to afford living in bounds for any of them. I am not trying to sanctimonious, just trying to provide some perspective.

To keep some perspective, these are good schools for DC. That may not necessarily be true against schools in better-run districts.

Mmm no. These are good schools, period.

Our DD goes to Deal. Math teaching is terrible and in another subject she has had a parade of different substitutes. Deal is only good compared to the DC public alternatives. I giess You could say it’s very good for DC.

Agree, we currently have 2 students in different grades at Deal. I have not seen any evidence that the school is challenging, in any way. Maybe that qualifies as good.

Well, since we’re going with anecdotes about individual kids to prove that Deal is good or bad or something else...my two kids in different grades at Deal are challenged and happy.

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Having no regular classroom teacher all year and constantly changing substitutes makes Deal challenging for our child also.

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All three schools lack diversity (which in a city like DC tells you a lot). But I think Murch has the most diversity of those 3. Eaton and Hearst are more diverse (racially and economically) and are also close by.

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Anonymous wrote:There's Janney... and then there's everything else.

This sounds like a slogan in a used car dealership commercial. Are Janney moms really this horrible?

Don’t forget Mann, which surpassed Janney for years. Now both schools are considered in the top tier of publics. Lafayette is close behind, arguably in its own bracket, but not the top tier. Murch and Hearst are good and improved, but in next tier. Eaton, etc. rank lower than Murch and Hearst.

What the hell does this mean - Lafayette is close behind? And to add to the Janney bashing - it’s well known at Deal that Janney girls are the mean ones.

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Anonymous wrote:Truly, if your children would do well in one of these schools, they will do well in all of them. PPs have pointed out that Lafayette is huge, if that matters to you. Find a house you like in a neighborhood you like and your kids will do just fine.

Plenty of kids- and parents - in DC would give anything to have access to any one of these schools. You're very fortunate to be able to afford living in bounds for any of them. I am not trying to sanctimonious, just trying to provide some perspective.

To keep some perspective, these are good schools for DC. That may not necessarily be true against schools in better-run districts.

Mmm no. These are good schools, period.

Our DD goes to Deal. Math teaching is terrible and in another subject she has had a parade of different substitutes. Deal is only good compared to the DC public alternatives. I giess You could say it’s very good for DC.

Agree, we currently have 2 students in different grades at Deal. I have not seen any evidence that the school is challenging, in any way. Maybe that qualifies as good.

Well, since we’re going with anecdotes about individual kids to prove that Deal is good or bad or something else...my two kids in different grades at Deal are challenged and happy.

I'm glad to hear that, sometimes I think the place is just going through the motions.

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Anonymous wrote:There's Janney... and then there's everything else.

This sounds like a slogan in a used car dealership commercial. Are Janney moms really this horrible?

Don’t forget Mann, which surpassed Janney for years. Now both schools are considered in the top tier of publics. Lafayette is close behind, arguably in its own bracket, but not the top tier. Murch and Hearst are good and improved, but in next tier. Eaton, etc. rank lower than Murch and Hearst.

What the hell does this mean - Lafayette is close behind? And to add to the Janney bashing - it’s well known at Deal that Janney girls are the mean ones.

No, it’s only well known on DCuM where moms somehow feel entitled to bash other people’s kids. Shame on you.

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OP here - also I wondered what it is like to live in these neighborhoods

Where are you coming from, OP? Easier to describe this if we know this.

OP again. Grew up in New England but am returning to US after years abroad in Europe & Asia. Don’t want to live in suburbia but have several kids...so that’s why I’m looking in NW. I’d say I’m fairly liberal and open-minded.

I’ve got news for you: the parts of NW DC you’re considering are pretty suburban. Parts of close-in Bethesda and Arlington feel more urban that the areas zoned for Lafayette, Janney, and Murch.

Mayor Bowser and her planning director Mr. “Trueblood” not making that name up) want to make Ward 3 much more urban. Just see their changes to the Comp Plan, including their progressive of “soft density” plan which would allow multifarious buildings deep into single family residential neighborhoods.

Of course, they also propose an ambitious school building program to accommodate the growth that they are pushing.

Oh god this again? I think the person who keeps posting this is not even a public school parent.

There is nothing in the Comp Plan that allows "multifarious buildings deep into single family residential neighborhoods" whatever that is even supposed to mean. The proposed changes in Ward 3 are actually very modest and don't convert any single family home portions of the neighborhood to anything else - there are simply some modest upzonings along Connecticut and Wisconsin Avenue.

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This has devolved into a silly thread.

The demographic differences between all of the Ward 3 ES are insignificant and indiscernible, particularly when you consider how diverse DC and the region really are. Sure Hearst and Eaton have a bit more diversity and OOB but only relative to the rest of the neighborhood - someone coming from a public ES in any other neighborhood in DC would be bewildered to hear a Hearst or Eaton parent bragging about how diverse their school is.

And the comments about the cultures at each school are equally silly and are anecdotes reflecting individual posters impressions of different schools.

But the really silly thing is that unless you have and are willing to spend whatever it takes on your home you may not get to choose which school district you buy in - housing supply has been very tight in all of these neighborhoods for the last 4-5 years so if you see a house you like and can afford you should go for it and ignore all of the silliness on this thread.

One other note - Janney does have a huge advantage that only one other poster referenced - it is the only ES (and this goes for Deal and Wilson too) that is really well situated for getting to and from on multiple forms of public transportation and its location in a commercial area is also very convenient for a number of reasons. Hearst and Hardy are easy to go on the bus but that greatly limits the places you can to the school from - Janney/Deal are reachable not just on Metro but from multiple Metrobus routes as well.

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Anonymous wrote:This has devolved into a silly thread.

The demographic differences between all of the Ward 3 ES are insignificant and indiscernible, particularly when you consider how diverse DC and the region really are. Sure Hearst and Eaton have a bit more diversity and OOB but only relative to the rest of the neighborhood - someone coming from a public ES in any other neighborhood in DC would be bewildered to hear a Hearst or Eaton parent bragging about how diverse their school is.

And the comments about the cultures at each school are equally silly and are anecdotes reflecting individual posters impressions of different schools.

But the really silly thing is that unless you have and are willing to spend whatever it takes on your home you may not get to choose which school district you buy in - housing supply has been very tight in all of these neighborhoods for the last 4-5 years so if you see a house you like and can afford you should go for it and ignore all of the silliness on this thread.

One other note - Janney does have a huge advantage that only one other poster referenced - it is the only ES (and this goes for Deal and Wilson too) that is really well situated for getting to and from on multiple forms of public transportation and its location in a commercial area is also very convenient for a number of reasons. Hearst and Hardy are easy to go on the bus but that greatly limits the places you can to the school from - Janney/Deal are reachable not just on Metro but from multiple Metrobus routes as well.

I’m sorry but there is a difference between 20% black at Hearst and Eaton and 5% black at Janney.

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Anonymous wrote:I'd do a google map scan of the businesses, etc you see in the different neighborhoods to see if any of them seem like they offer more of what you're looking for. e.g, there is now a Target and a whole foods right around the corner from Janney. the main strip of CT Ave in Lafayette's zone has a handful of restaurants, a very small Safeway grocery store and an assortment of other shops (UPS, kids shoe store, nail salon, etc), independent movie theater, etc. Janney and Murch are much closer to the metro stops
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Murch has politics and prose and little red fox. Lafayette has BBM as well.