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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your kid is THREE. I can tell you with great certainty that what is actually going to impact him is your intense anxiety and achievement focus.

Meanwhile I can tell you that about the only factor that I think actually matters for elementary school selection is location. A neighborhood school that kids can walk to will make it easier to make friends and will reduce time stress on the family. [/quote]

+1. Does anyone else get the sense that OP used AI to help create this list/draft the post? While they maybe cleaned it up a bit, the foundation doesn't seem like a human wrote it.[/quote]

OP again, and ouch. I'm human. Just a low support needs autistic human who went into psychological research as a career. Several of the things I asked about come up in the psych literature a lot, and I tried to be clear and specific about what information I was looking for without being overly jargon-y. I'm not always great at striking a balance between tone, specificity, and clarity in my writing (with the exception of academic writing).

Judging by your response (and a few other posters who've said something similar), that seems to be an issue here, and it's clearly getting in the way of earnest engagement with my questions. Was my writing unclear? Is there something I need to change about my post? I do genuinely want other parents' thoughts re: NW schools, and I'm willing to reword my questions if it would help. [/quote]

People here tend to be more concise. When you write something long, you're asking people for more of their time. You've written a request that can only be answered with a little essay, and honestly can't really be answered other than anecdotally.

You also made a faux pas by asking for schools in NW, so asking for way more information than any single person could actually utilize. Narrowing it down to your neighborhood is better because then people don't bother to reply if it wouldn't be relevant to you. It's also a little tone-deaf to use "NW" to mean only the wealthier schools. There are lots of schools in NW that are low-income and low-performing and they're just as "in NW" as Oyster.

You have a desirable in boundary school all the way through 12th. A lot of people in this city aren't so lucky, and when you write as if the Jackson-Reed feeders might not be good enough for your precious offspring because of some ineffable criteria that's really your childhood baggage, people get annoyed. [/quote]

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