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Reply to "Capitol Hill families - If you moved to NW or burbs for school, do you have any regrets?"
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[quote=Anonymous]If Deal is indeed "vastly better" than the DCPS middle school options in Ward 6 why is that we know longtime NW families who are running to the burbs or privates after 6th or 7th grades but don't know any longtime Hill families with kids at S-H, E-H, Jefferson, BASIS, the Latins, DCI or Walls following suit? The Hill is essentially an island surrounded by the National Mall and the Anacostia River, making for a particularly tight-knit community in the country's largest historic district. After a point, if you're fighting to stay, you tend to ignore those on the fence, grumbling about middle schools, because you know they won't last. From our perspective, MS and HS are just a decade in the lives of our families. We don't want to be stuck in some blah suburb as empty nesters and in our dotage. We want to be home on the Hill with close friends and dear neighbors who value life in the neighborhood as much as we do. If you moved to NW or the burbs mainly for schools, you never put down roots on the Hill that were worth fighting for. Stands to reason that you won't miss the Hill much. [/quote]
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