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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’d pick Whittier or West over Truesdell, personally. Agree with PP that they both have more “momentum.” I think West has nicer facilities than Whittier—it was renovated recently, right?—but ultimately I’d pick whichever was closer to my house because I doubt the differences between the two are that significant.[/quote]

I wonder why Truesdell still isn’t getting more “neighborhood buy-in” (from the gentrifier set, that is - it’s got plenty of buy-in from the local Latino community). We attended for two years of PK a few years ago (OOB), and my kid was the only non-Hispanic white kid in the class. The principal seemed great and had a stellar reputation, even on this board. The PK teachers were great. We didn’t stay because we eventually moved on to our IB, but I am surprised that the school doesn’t seem to change along with the neighborhood like others are.[/quote]

I'm the PP that's in-bound for Truesdell. I think it's a few things. First, as another PP said, they've "never heard one parent speak positively about truesdell." That doesn't mean people speak negatively or that there's anything wrong with the school at all, but when you hear ZERO about the school and never see kids in those distinctive purple uniforms on the playground, it's easy to fall into the line of thinking that "nobody" goes there so of course you wouldn't go there either. The neighborhood is also the land of charters - there are so many it's almost impossible not to get a match SOMEWHERE that gives you "something more" than a neighborhood DCPS that nobody knows anything about. Breakthrough for Montessori, Sela and Bethune for immersion, EL Haynes and Capital City for the alluring though unlikely path through middle school, plus the Center Cities, CMI, Bridges, and of course DCB, LAMB, YY, etc. I think what happens in these kind of neighborhoods is that some schools get neighborhood buy in faster, and some schools just get left behind (Brightwood and Height are similar to Truesdell in that regard). [/quote]

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