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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I support reform that will make good options for all DCPS students and I find the state of schools across the city appalling.  I also recognize that there are many people and children in this city without a lot of choices as to where they live and what school they will go to.  I do not, however, think that is the majority of the parents that post to DCUM.

There are some people who live in great houses in nice neighborhoods with crappy schools.  I live in a mediocre house in a neighborhood I like (but it is by no means my first choice) with well regarded schools.  That was a choice I made because I was having children that needed to be educated in a public school (meaning I am not one of the JKLM families that can afford private school for my kids).  If I could not have afforded upper NW DC, I would not be in DC complaining about my crappy school choices, I would likely be in Virginia or MD, because I would need to be where there are good schools and I would be complaining about my commute or living in the burbs or something else.

It sounds like what most people resent is the choices they will  have to make to get their children into good schools, not that they are going to have no option but to send their children to these unacceptable schools.  Am I wrong, will the people complaining about the lack of desirable middle schools send their children to whatever is available or will they make other choices (move, charter) if things have not improved when they reach that point?

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Take this snide, self-congratulatory tone to Ward 7 and see how far it gets you.   :roll:

I don't have any resentment whatsoever about my children's public school - I think we're in the best public school in the city, bar none.  However, I have a lot of sympathy for anyone who thinks the quality options should be equally spread across the district as opposed to being concentrated in one area.[/quote]

I tried my best to acknowledge that there are many people in this city with few choices (OOB and Charter), many children in difficult family circumstances have even fewer and I have tremendous sympathy for them.  I also think that good choices should be available to all, wherever they live, although I do not personally have the answer to how to solve this problem.  What bothers me is the resentment by people that do have choices towards the schools that are doing well, without as far as I can tell any special treatment over other city schools other than the circumstances of the kids that go there and the support of their families.  My question was directed at people who have that resentment and do have choices.  I discern from the writing style of most posters that they are educated, employed and able to make choices and trade-offs to ensure that their children have educational options that are acceptable to the parents.  I made choices and trade-offs to make sure that mine do and if my circumstances were different I would have made different choices, but I would certainly make sure my kids were in good schools.  Do you really think that all the good schools in the DC/MD/VA metro area are only accessible to those that live in areas as expensive as JKLM?[/quote]

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