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[quote=Anonymous]We're in Brookland, about 10 years now. Moved here without kids and have stayed on, happily, post kids. The local schools work for some, and the local principals have been open to conversations with families about the state of the schools. With every  group of parents with school-aging-in kids there's a burst of discussion about committing to the local schools (join the Brookland parents listserv). The trouble is 1) the neighborhood is split oddly between the schools, so that you lose momentum for families committing together to work with a school 2) relatedly, we don't have the density, of, say, Capitol Hill that allows faster change, and 3) many of the charter schools are just too good, so that as people play the lottery and get accepted, they aren't going to choose the hopeful local school over the proven charter. And so the big push to make local schools full of neighborhood kids fizzles.

We're zoned, oddly, for example, for the school that's a further walk away, and which is the combined elementary/junior high that seems to not be working much of anywhere here in DC. (I'm fully open to hearing otherwise, as we haven't checked it out in the last few years, and there may have been notable improvement.)

We're at Cap City and very happy. It's an opposite commute for us, but we've been very lucky to have such dedicated teachers. 
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