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[quote=Anonymous]I would say that, while DC has a unique history w/r/t charters, your biases aren't completely misplaced here either.  On the one hand, charters are a way that kids in underserved school boundaries can get into schools that have different offerings than their neighborhood schools, thereby theoretically chipping away at real estate segregation and offering more unique programming (e.g., early college, immersion, etc.).  HOWEVER, in practice, a lot of the charters are actually popular with wealthier parents, who opt out of their neighborhoods to self-select into wealthier (and whiter) cohorts.  And look, that sounds harsh, but I get it, if cohorts matter and people are focused on making sure their kid has similar peers, then it might make sense for that family.  BUT it drains a lot of DCPS schools of upper middle class families and creates its own inequities.  Which is all to say, if you want to send your kid to a neighborhood elementary school, there are lots of great options in DC (and no, you don't have to self-select into living in the west of the park neighborhoods to do so).  The schools in the Petworth/Mount Pleasant area are good.  The schools in Shaw (Garrison, Seaton) and Bloomingdale/Eckington are (Langley) are good.  The schools on Capitol Hill are good.  This list is not exclusive at all, just the ones where I know happy families :)  All these areas have lots of families with kids, too.  Welcome to DC!![/quote]

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