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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I find that K parents often have different perspectives and are more favorable of schools than 3rd grade and higher parents. Plus they are usually trying to lotto into a better option al the time, and then just say " we gor ucky, it was a whim" but in reality they want out. [/quote]

This is my thinking, too. How many of these glowing comments are from parents in the upper grades of these schools? [/quote]

None.  Not that takoma isn’t a pretty neighborhood (it is) but I guarantee that no one has or will yet post with kids aged 10 to 18 in zoned DCPS schools[/quote]

it hasn't been livable long enough for [b]upper middle class kids[/b] to age into middle or high school.  I would argue it still isn't the type of area that should attack 750k buyers and up but I guess DC/NW is running out of SFHs and buyers are doing so on pure speculation [/quote]

Ha! Takoma has been a solidly middle class Black neighborhood for ages. What you mean is white kids. Every white family considering buying there should listen to the podcast "Nice White Parents" in its entirety first.

I visited TEC when we were living in the zone for it. At that time it was PK-8. I got there at the end of students' arrival time but early for the tour so I sat next to the front door and was able to observe that of the students who arrived while I was there, only Black students were wanded by security. Sample size was 15-20 or so. When I asked the principal about it, he said that DCPS's policy is that kids over 6th grade have to be wanded--younger kids do not. Because nearly all the white kids at TEC were at that time below 6th grade, the effect was that only black kids were wanded. I was not wild about those being the conditions I would send a kid to school in...also totally uninterested in the DC lottery scheme. We moved to downtown Silver Spring.

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