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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think they will change. Will they be like Deal? No. But 10 years ago, was Deal like Deal is today? Also no. More and more middle/upper class families are moving to neighborhoods that have low-income people (Shaw, Petworth, SW, etc.) and if even a fraction of them stay and send their kids to school the schools will be different.  Probably better in some but not all ways.  It really only takes a few kids from well-educated families plus teacher getting a few kids from basic to proficient before there's a big change in proficiency rates. There are already families in SW who went private and say if Amidon 5 years ago was like it is now, they'd go. Others won't go unless it's 50% proficient, still others till 75%.  Some will never go.  But a refurbished school with some very good teachers and extracurriculars is still a step in the right direction.[/quote]

Talk to us again when your kids are 10 and facing middle school. Kumbaya togetherness gets you nowhere when you are facing the morass of DCPS central office.  And it middle school academics and social milieu actually matter.  There are real barriers here, not just scaredy cat parents[/quote]

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