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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]True but next year new montessori middle and second latin will open. Some new blood.

[b]Also pretty soon it won’t just but the Hill, Shaw and Bloomingdale and Brookland and noma will start having to face this [/b]....[/quote]

This is a very good point.  The Hill is simply further along in the gentrification process than a number of other big neighborhoods even as Mayor Bowser and DCPS leaders fail to take the expanding neighborhood MS quality crisis head on. There are don't seem to be any practical or ambitious plans to address the problem in the works.  No, it's more of the same, lecturing UMC parents who avoid failing middle schools on how racist and elitist they are, or simply ignoring their concerns.[/quote]

Just chiming I’m here that many in the city see unchecked gentrification as a significant problem. Skyrocketing housing and business facility costs and the  displacement that follows are lamented. Not everyone wants to live next to an Orange Theory. It is all connected. [/quote]

And yet...are we really saying that not thinking about the kids in our city who need an education and are entitled to one through the city don't matter.  I'm all for finding ways to create diversity in all neighborhoods.  But, honestly, there will come a day when the people who live here and have kids in the school and are highly educated (and we are growing in number every year) may end up voting based on frustration with prejudice against our children and meeting their needs.[/quote]

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