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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PK: 10 min 
K-5: 15 min
3-4 that feeds into desired MS: 30 min
5 that feeds into desired MS: 40 min[/quote]

Yep. If you’re at a school that doesn’t work for your kid (behavior issues or lack of academic differentiation, or future feeder pattern) the mental and emotional cost-benefit math on commuting starts shifting year after year until you lottery out and suck up the commute or move.

When PK and K at our IB were going mostly ok, I was horrified by the idea of a 25 min drive to the nearest “better” school. Now I do that drive, the 25 minute drive back home, then park and walk 10 minutes to my office (which is also a 10 minute walk from our IB) every day. A rough school year tipped the scales so we lotteried. Now I don’t even mind the “cost” of commuting to have the “benefit” of confidence in the school and feeder pattern.

Also, for us moving makes much less sense than commuting. We would give up a really low mortgage payment. Even renting out our house and renting an apartment to be closer would be a net loss for us each month, let alone swallowing $2-3k more in mortgage to get a smaller house nearer a better IB or charter. And our offices are downtown and further east so assuming we’d be WOTP or uptown to be by a school we like more than our IB, we would just be trading commute with kid one way for each parent per day, for a shorter commute for the kid but even longer commutes for both parents (and probably monthly parking fees for me) both ways.

The fact is that if you want to live and work in DC and raise kids, the school stuff is hard. This was the hard we chose over things we found even harder. [/quote]

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