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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No it's not. The crux of the issue is that I'm not sending my kid to a crap school so that a bunch of righteous a@$holes won't think I'm bad. And really- you have never used connections to get a job ect.? That's bullshit. [/quote]

To me the worst part is the message you are sending to your kid and your values. I am working to make my extremely low performing school better for all kids and, if I fail, I will move to where I can afford to live and send my kid to a good school. [/quote]

Not that simple if the place you can afford with good schools is a two-hour commute from your work (and some people can't change jobs). I would rather have an extra 3-4 hours a day with my children (that is 15-16 hours a week) and have them think cheating is sometimes ok then see them only on weekends and teach them cheating is always wrong.

The problem is the cost of real estate in this area.

Now this has nothing to do with me (we are in a charter), but you have to admit that "choices" in the DC area are really grim. I moved here thinking I could choose a small house or condo or TH and thereby get good schools and a short commute,  but I quickly found out that a three bedroom condo that met that criteria was far beyond what we could afford (and we make a lot!).  In a place where tear downs in the only good school districts sell for 700,000, we have to scramble to get what we can any way we can.[/quote]

Cry me a river. Excuses, excuses, excuses. We get it. You think you're entitled to lie. Why, you couldn't live in a three bedroom otherwise!

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Have you checked out the real estate in takoma park or silver spring?  I com sure it is not as convenient as where you currently love but it is not 2 hours away and people can and do afford to live there, get good educations for their children and commute to DC.  Is it super cool and trendy, no, but neither is parenting generally.[/quote]

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