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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I feel conflicted about this.  I guess it boils down to whether you think school choice is good or whether it hurt neighborhood schools.  The easier it is to go to a "better" school across town the less incentive their is to invest in your community.  I know I wouldn't send my kids to many of the schools in Wards 7 & 8 so I don't blame those families for looking for other options.  But how will those schools improve and attract more families if everyone bails.  Its complicated.   [/quote]

I think it hurts neighborhood schools but I also think that on this topic the horses are gone and the barn door is closed in DC.  So if neighborhood schools are bad, and made worse by the charter system that's been in place for a decade+, I don't begrudge parents working as hard as they can within the system to get their kids the best education available to them.  If I could turn back time I wouldn't have done the charter thing but I can't.

There's a lady who drives 40 minutes to bring her sons to play at my neighborhood playground on the weekends, because there are always drug dealers and gang members at her neighborhood playground and she doesn't want any of her kids in danger and her older kids having that normalized/being recruited.  Do I wish her neighborhood playground was safe and accessible and fun for her kids?  Yes.  But I don't begrudge her coming to ours; I think she's an amazing mom and I wish she didn't have to go to the trouble.[/quote]

As someone who lives EOTR, I can attest that there are plenty of playgrounds over here that do not have problems. There are also plenty of parents over here with no qualms about calling the police if there are issues at a playground. While obviously there may be problems at some playgrounds, the idea that you have to drive 40 minutes (i.e. across town) to find a playground without drug dealers is simply untrue and paints a false picture of EOTR.

Not an attack on the PP, and I totally believe that the mom in question does drive across town (I have driven to some nice W3 playgrounds myself). But there certainly are closer "safe" playgrounds.[/quote]

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