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do you think it is fair for maryland and virginia people to be taking up spots
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Anonymous
You opened a year and a half old thread just to be nasty? You know it's not good to walk around with all that pent up hostility for people you don't know. Did you grow up here? Because I did and I don't know anyone that doesn't consider DC, MD & VA as a tri-state, metropolitan area that we all live in and share. We just aren't that possessive. It seems kind of childish don't you think? As if you have no use for MD and VA. Wait, I'm trying to reason with someone that doesn't think people in DC drive SUV's. Nevermind. |
Anonymous
Nasty. I see SUV's with DC plates at privates and Potomac School in VA runs busses in DC. Now if more NW DC residents were not so against public school Wilson would resemble Whitman or Mclean . nice and pricey neighborhoods in DC where not a single child ever sets foot in a public school. |
Anonymous
But the comic value is pretty high. Though the logic has a touch of tragedy. 'Splain me that connection between jurisidictions, taxes and private school acceptances. |
Anonymous
So move! If you don't like the school choices in your area, move like many other people have done. |
Anonymous
| More to the point. Admission to these elite private schools should definitely be restricted by zip code within NW D.C. |
Anonymous
Actually, if we want to be "fair" about it and offer spaces to the children who need it most, it should be based on what school you're zoned to. Spaces should go to children zoned for schools such as M.C. Terrell in Southeast. People who have spaces at perfectly fine schools such as Janney, Murch, Mann, Deal or Hardy should be required to subsidize those children's education. This thread has to be the most absurd I've ever seen. People who have almost everything, including million dollar homes in upper Northwest, are whining about people who have equally much but happen to have chosen a different neighborhood. Back to reality, of course private schools should be able to admit who they choose. |
Anonymous
| PP, I'm laughing, but just want to point out that some of us live in MD of VA because we can't afford to live in DC. I'd LOVE a million dollar home in NW, but stick in my 400,000 home in Silver Spring so I can afford private school! |
Anonymous
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As a VA resident, I respectfully ask all DC residents to stop using our roads or the roads in Maryland when trying to leave the District. It's too crowded and you're taking up valuable spots that a VA/MD resident could use. Perhaps you could all invest in helicopter services to get you to NYC and beyond (since all the airports are in VA or MD).
Silly. |
Anonymous
| And PLEASE don't apply to UVa or William and Mary if you're a DC resident. I really don't want you taking my kid's spot when my taxes are paying for those schools. Just stick with UDC. |
Anonymous
| you are all missing the point the key phrase here is PRIVATE or INDEPENDENT schools. They can admit who ever they want from anywhere they want. They do not follow Public School rules or regs unless they want to. Stop whinning about how a school does this. If you do not like the way one school does it then move on to the next one. |
Anonymous
| You are able to pay? You can go. |
Anonymous
Okay, I am not the OP who opened this old thread, but now you gals have gone too too far. We Washingtonians, speaking for my family and myself, love your Virginia universities. Why would we not, after California, they are some of the best public higher learning institutions in the country. Saying that. We will not stay out 
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Anonymous
| why not it is the same you are asking the MD and VA to do about the private schools in DC? |
Anonymous
| Believe it or not there are bad school district in NOVA and many children have parents that work in DC and can't afford a home in Woodley Park. If you look at my daughter's VA tag at Aidan and think my grandchild doesn't deserve to be there I am glad you were rejected. Montessori schools are about building communities and they don't need this attitude. |
Anonymous
| Nobody is beating the doors down to get into Aidan. You can have it. There is a better Montessori School in Virginia in Mt. Vernon. |