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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]thanks for the update!  Great area!  I hope you will be able to spend some time volunteering at Amidon-- perhaps if you volunteer you will connect with similar minded folks there or inspire others to join you.  Even if you decide that it isn't a good fit for your future child, it is possible that you can help out others.  Regardless , I can't think of a better way to get to know your neighbors than by pitching in at the neighborhood school!  
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Ahem, I can think of a better way.  Organize your over-educated selves to lobby to alter structures at neighborhood schools.  There is new thinking among the middle-class Hill cohort that at least one of the elementary schools should be closed to avoid spreading the high-SES families doing the heavy lifting on PTAs so thin.  The Hill can't turn around all seven up to 5th grade anytime soon, impossible to make each a true neighborhood school, as opposed to a Ward 7 and 8 and PG County transplant institution, in under 20 years.  Lobbying DCPS for selective admission programs for advanced learners/gifted and talented would surely be a better use of your time than volunteering at Amidon, which has no chance of becoming a high-performing school under the current arrangement.  Just talk to the Payne PTA founders - they've killed themselves for a couple years, only to be voted out by hostile low-SES AA parents, most of whom don't live in the neighborhood.

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