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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are kicking off our school search this weekend, starting with the MOTH School Fair.  Any BTDT advice?  We are starting at ground zero, live in NOMA/Truxton area.[/quote]

Are you looking for a public option for preK3?  If so, I wouldn't bother with the MOTH school fair. The only public schools attending are the IB schools on the Hill, most of which no longer take OOB kids (or, if they do, your IB school in NOMA is just as good).  Myschooldc will have a citywide fair later in the process that will probably be more useful.

If you are considering private schools, then definitely go to the fair tomorrow. [b]The other PP is right to really focus on commute.[/b] [/quote]

Thanks.  However, I'm a little more focused on my kid, so I'll be looking for academics and safety.[/quote]

HA! That sounds like me last year at this time. I'm two months into a cross-city commute to a great school and I want to shoot myself in the head every morning. Terrible mistake not to heed this advice. [/quote]

And thus settle for a close-to-home low-academic school with safety issues?  Really?  Why don't you move closer to the "great" school then?[/quote]

You don't understand until you experience it. After 5 years of cross-town commute from Ward 5 to Georgetown, I am over it. The school is awesome and my sons were really nurtured there, but losing 2 hours of my day, 5 days per week in DC traffic took its toll on me. I told hubby we either need to sell our home and move into a Georgetown apartment (cannot afford a mortgage in that part of town), or enroll our boys in a school close to home. [/quote]

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