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[quote=Anonymous]After reading the recent controversial threads about the DCPS/charter school lottery, I am curious about where all of you live in DC that have such terrible schools and why you decided to live there.  Are these up and coming/gentrifying neighborhoods and this was the place you could get the most house for your money?  Did you not think you would have kids or assumed you would have moved by now?

While this may sound like a troll-ish question, I am genuinely curious.  I have a friend in NYC who is in a similar situation-- she is a SAHM (by choice)/DH probably makes $75k (so truly middle class by NYC standards) and they live in an "up and coming" neighborhood where the IB  schools are terrible.  But she chose to live in there (actually moved there from another neighborhood because they could afford a bigger place there).  She just went through the hell and uncertainty of the public school lottery.  I felt bad for her, but in a way, it was the natural result of their decision to live there just because they wanted to stay in Brooklyn.  They could easily move to another bororough (or suburbs) and not deal with the issue.  Or, she could return to work and have higher HHI that would allow them to afford private schools.  But that's not what they chose.

In a way, this is also a comment on thread re having to start PS/PK early to guarantee a spot at an OOB school because the IB school was not acceptable.  For many low-SES families who live in these neighborhoods, they didn't have a choice about living there, working 2 jobs, and having to send their kids to PS/PK at 3.  By contrast, I am guessing that the posters on DCUM did make choices-- whether to live in that neighborhood vs. moving to another one for a smaller place (or to the suburbs), whether to SAHM or take a lower paying job because it was more interesting than the soul-sucking corporate job.  My comments agreed with the posters who thought it was entitled of some families to change the whole system to suit their choices.[/quote]

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