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[quote=Anonymous]Thanks for your responses! OP again. I'm just so curious about the nearby schools, and I, especially, bleed for neighborhood schools. Honestly, I have only the most cursory experience with ours, King Elementary. I went to vote at the school earlier this year and saw one extremely small class eating lunch in the cafeteria. I think there were TWO teachers with the tiny class. I thought to myself what can be so bad about that? I think the low-performing schools reputation is more than anything a reflection of SES. We are middle class/aren't rich ourselves, so that isn't a problem for me. ;) I want to know if there is something fundamentally wrong with the schools.

I understand what you mean about the setting the expectations low and being pleased. We totally did that in our neighborhood. We moved here two years ago, because we figured it was such a deal we'd give it a try. (We bought a beautiful 4 bedroom brick house for 200K in SE DC, five minutes away from the Capitol, hardly any traffic ever, crazy cheap for DC, I know, all because of the bad reputation our neighborhood has.) Needless to say, we were super nervous to move in, because of the reputation, but it was one of the best decision we've ever made in our lives. We love our neighborhood that much. I hope we have the same experience with our neighborhood school.

To the poster who spoke about King Elementary, could you explain what things are less satisfactory? Teacher performance, student performance, principal? Also, could you tell me a little bit about yourself, aka, what your relationship to the school is? Are you a parent, teacher, etc? Thanks again![/quote]

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