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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Anecdotally, a lot of my DD’s 1st grade classmates on the Hill are moving to the burbs this summer. Not sure if it’s more than usual or not (certainly more than past summers though). At least 4 of 19 in her class alone.[/quote]

This always happens.  People stay in DC to get the free preschool and then they go where they really want to raise kids. [/quote]

Exactly. These people were never going to stay anyway. They came to DC as young professionals, "played city" for a while (which was super progressive and cool), then are returning to the suburbs where they were raised themselves. [/quote]

I seriously will never understand what’s wrong with this. It’s fun and easy to live in a city when you’re young and don’t have kids. And it’s easy and nice to live in the suburbs when you do have kids. What’s so evil and wrong about this that you say it with such disdain? [/quote]

DP but the problem is when these born-and-bred suburbanites breed and move back to the suburbs (like they were always bound to do) and then talk about how they [i]had [/i]to leave DC because of how scary and dangerous and terrible DCPS is over drinks with their suburban neighbors and then come spew it on these boards like "well I [i]did [/i]live in The City but I HAD TO LEAVE because THINK OF THE CHILDREN!"  Just say you like well-stocked Targets and HOAs and driving to dog parks.  You want cool kid cred for having been here at one point and some kind of superior parent cred for moving when you couldn't afford it anymore.  You were never going to stay, and DC is not in any way deficient for failing to keep you here. [/quote]

I have sent my kid to a high farms and then a low farms school and I have worked and volunteered in both too (not the same ones, just both high and low farms)
You have no idea what you are talking about [/quote]

That doesn't have anything to do with what I wrote but congrats on your Teach For America stint.[/quote]

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