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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP here - as a prosecutor here in DC, the amount of murders, violent assaults, and drug deals I saw coming out of the James Creek and (to a lesser extent) Greenleaf housing projects in SW was pretty mind blowing.  You can't tell me the kids growing up in those projects aren't affected by what they see.[/quote]

I am sure they are affected. The question would still be, though, if that impacts the situation inside JA. Which is still probably better learned by actually looking at JA, than by surmising based on  the number of crimes (BTW - mind blowing or not, increasing or decreasing?) in certain projects (greenleaf by the way is going to become mixed income) etc.[/quote]

PP, will you please stop whitewashing harsh realities in SW? Hint: 30 years hasn't been able to turn it all around.

I have "actually looked" at JA, at several open houses advertised at Brent, along with dozens of fellow parents. I saw that most of the students are poor minority kids struggling to achieve.  I saw that a well-run school marches students around inside to deprive them of the opportunity to act up.  I saw that there are no honors classes and none planned and few extra curricular activities that appeal.  I saw a lot of empty classrooms and hallways because the school is dramatically under-enrolled.

Not going to bite for my kid who scored 5s on the 3rd grade PARCC all too easily.  We'll figure something happier out for middle school, like almost all of the other Brent families for years to come.

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