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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This thread kind of makes me jealous of the vast majority of American parents who just enroll their kids in their suburban boundary school because that’s what’s available to them. Though I realize it’s a double edge sword, if those schools don’t work for their kid, most parents do not have another option. Moving or private school aren’t realistic to most of our country, where in the DC UMC it seems almost like a given if things aren’t working out. [/quote]

it is extremely coming throughout the rest of the country for parents to choose where they live specifically for the school their home is zoned for. Yes, they just send their kid to the local school, but they didn’t randomly end up where they did.

[b]DC seems to be full of more oblivious parents who wake up one day and realize the house they bought with the great walk to all the bars and coffee shops is zoned for a terrible school.[/b] [/quote]

I see this opinion on here often and I don't get it. In some cases good schools are "a great walk to all the bars and coffee shops." In other instances, people bought homes before they had kids or even knew if they wanted to have kids, so didn't prioritize schools (and didn't great metrics for evaluating them even if they did). Sometimes people buy homes believing the IB school to be good, only to attend for ECE and discover it's not at all right for their kid. Some people rent, and/or can't afford to live in-bound for better schools. Some people bought knowing the schools were bad but believed they would be able to move before it was an issue, only to run into issues (a job loss, Covid, home not appreciating well while homes in more desired school boundaries shooting up in price, etc.).

I know you think you are really owning all the families in DC who have poor IB schools that happen to be near a coffee shop or bar they enjoy going too, but you just wind up coming off incredibly ignorant. You seem to think there are large numbers of people who can buy wherever they want but choose homes in "hip" neighborhoods with bad schools just because they are stupid and oblivious. It's not happening. In fact, one of the things that happens is that a bunch of people buy homes in "hip" neighborhoods and then the schools get a lot better -- see the aforementioned Ludlow Taylor, and Maury, among others.

I'm sorry your upper NW neighborhood or suburb has so few good businesses to walk to, but at least your schools are good.[/quote]

My comment was a response to the obliviousness of thinking “people just sent their kids to the local school and don’t have to worry.”  No, many, many people chose where they live specifically for the school, not proximity to Big Bear or Wonderland.[/quote]

My home is not anywhere near Big Bear or Wonderland, bars I haven't been to in 10+ years, well before I had kids. And yet... I still stress about school quality. It's almost like there isn't a direct correlation between schools and hipster bars.

I think you are just mad at people who have time to go out to bars? I mean, me too I guess, I'm a parent and I feel like I never get to do anything fun sometimes. It just truly has nothing to do with this conversation.[/quote]

Only in DC have I ever heard “we just bought a house before we had kids and didn’t realize the schools were bad.”[/quote]

Oh please. I bought a house before kids, in a place where schools are bad, ON PURPOSE for investment reasons. How is anyone to know how long it will take them to become a parent anyway? I was not up for a long commute to some supposedly great school district when I didn't even have a kid and it's 5+ years until they attend that supposedly wonderful school anyway. Not worth that kind of commute for 5 years.

Years passed, I had kids, the schools are better than they were, and I'll cash out whenever the time comes to move. [/quote]

You know, if something doesn’t apply to you, you can just move along. [/quote]

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