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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]People are acting like the answer is very obvious on this thread, but the truth is, nobody knows what the EOTP high schools will look like in 10 years.  DC is a city that has changed so quickly.  Look at Garrison, for example--it was going to be shut down and a few years later, it's impossible to get in OOB (in the younger grades, granted).  That turnaround took, what, 5 years?  More people want to live closer to work, want to stay in the city once they have kids, and you are seeing more diversity (economic and otherwise) in the city's schools EOTP.  So far, the big changes have been mostly in elementary, but a decade is a long time.  Nobody knows what these schools will look like in 10 years.  Nobody knows if the lockdown will reverse the gains that have been made.

With that caveat, my advice is to move.  Despite what it may feel sometimes with PKers at home, these are the good times, right now.  You should live your life in a way that will allow you to get the most out of this time.  If that means moving to a neighborhood that is more your speed, or has a bigger yard, or whatever, you should do it!  As others have said, maybe you'll find that the middle or high schools just aren't a good fit for your kid.  That could also happen WOTP!  You don't know yet whether your kid is the sort who will be accepted into the application schools, but I choose to assume my PK'er will be lol!  If our kids aren't, we'll cross that bridge in 2030, whatever that looks like.  Home equity in a neighborhood that you are not committed to is not worth a decade of your life.  My 2 cents FWIW--good luck![/quote]

Here's the thing- the gulfs and the risks get much higher with each grade level. So yes, many elementary schools have improved and are hard to get into. However, things are MUCH slower to improve at the MS level and even slower at HS. Hardy Middle School is the closest thing to a success story in the last decade or even 2 and still only a fraction of IB kids attend. When you have a kid who is meeting or exceeding grade level, a voracious reader, interested in math and science, hungry for learning - sending them to an under-performing school is going to be a non starter. Schools where they don't assign any homework and where the overwhelming focus is getting kids who are barely reading to get through 9th grade.

Go ahead a move - and maybe you will get lucky. But a decade is really not that long in terms of school improvement.  [/quote]

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