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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I went to a focus group this week and what I found curious were the parents who bought in Shaw, Columbia Heights, etc. that somehow want access to Deal.  I mean, what were you thinking when you bought there?  You buy a house for a steal seven years ago, get a 100% return on your investment and NOW you want access to the best MS in the city accross town because you say "everyone deserves access to high quality education and my taxes are as good as yours."  Sorry friend, your luck has run out and you are going to have to live with the consequences of your location choice.[/quote]

So explain to me what any individual resident has done that makes them more entitled than any other resident to a high quality, free public education for their children.[/quote]

Um, maybe they looked at the school boundary map before they bought a house in a particular location?  I mean, the urban pioneers [b]made a conscious decision for square footage over school quality[/b].  You could have bought or rented a perfectly nice condo on Connecticut Avenue, but instead you wanted a house.  That is fine.  I am not judging. But you have to own that decision. [/quote]

+1[/quote]

+2[/quote]

All of the people I know that bought EOTP didn't do it to get a bigger house, they just like the hipster bragging rights about not living in "Caucasia," and yet of course they now think they should get to send their kids to Caucasia for school.  Most of them spent more on their house in Columbia Heights than I did in Van Ness.[/quote]

+3 
Seriously, enjoy Powell and JO Wilson and Noyes, OR, try your hand for Creative Minds' 2 open slots.

You wanted fixie lanes in front of your rowhouse and artisnal heritage pig handcrafted salume within 2 blocks.  It's yours, right along with the school situation that goes hand in hand with being the neighbor of a bar full of ironic beards.

Also, if ALL of your ironic beard, small plates-eating kids concentrated  to the SAME middle school, instead of 17 middle schools, you could approach Deal's outcomes and day to day experience. [/quote]

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