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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, leave the district. I am black as well and I am just not playing with these odds. Go to Silver Spring, which will work for both of your commutes. Send your child to an ES like Flora Singer and then Blair HS, or by then, you may have enough equity to move to Bethesda or something.

I truly feel like it isn't worth it for me to chance these schools with my child. Let the white people figure it out and fix it for their kids. I just cannot experiment with my brown baby. [/quote]

NP here, also AA. Moving IB for Blair is our back-up plan for HS. Currently, DC attends a private (non-Big 3) that would be fiscally unsustainable for HS. We live EOTR and are zoned for probably the lowest performing school cluster in DCPS. I attended an Open House for Basis this year and was appalled at the lack of diversity present. My hope is that the demographics of the MS were not adequately reflected that evening. Reading this thread, it felt oddly comforting to know that other AAs in the city are having the same internal conversations. I would hate to switch schools to save money only to encounter lowered expectations in a different setting.[/quote]

Just be leery of moving for schools. There are problems every where. I know a few families that moved for schools and are disappointed. They did a ton research prior but still are not satisfied. We've opted to go private for MS and maybe come back for HS.  DCPS will have a hard time improving until it can attract and keep middle and upper-middle class AA families. No matter how much a city gentrifies it can't account for families constantly leaving when kids get school age. [/quote]

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