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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, the city is changing demographically, and that may mean the schools imiprove somewhat.  However, there have always been wealthy people living in DC (they never left!), and that group has never sent their kids to public school and never will.  So you're really counting on the highly educated, middle income workers (non-profits, govt., etc.) to stay and help improve the schools, and lots of those families eventually give up and move.  It's one thing to stay in your sketchy but gentryfying neighborhood when your kids are small, but come middle and high school is when people tend to throw in the towel.  Deal may be a good school (and while it's the best DC has to offer, it's not THAT good), but the MS and HS offerings in Md. and Va are so much better and will be for the foreseeable future.  And I've lived in DC for over 30 years.[/quote]

I really think that listening to someone who has "lived in DC for over 30 years" or in the case of the other PP "for 40 years" won't get us very far.  It's like listening to someone who lived in NYC from 1900 to 1960 talk about how no one will ever live in the suburbs, and the city will rein supreme forever.  The last 3-4 decades must have been very traumatic, and with that history, it's very difficult to accept the changes that are underway and accelerating.[/quote]

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