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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In case you were wondering, Noyes is terrible. I assume that you know that and are making sure that isn't your only option. There are 2 housing projects that feed into that school and very few kids from anywhere else. [/quote]

Please try to be less judgemental, it just makes you sound BAD and uninformed.  Noyes is not terrible just bnecause there are students from housing projects.  Please do us all a favor and leave the city if that's how you feel about children from public housing.  Noyes has a great early childhood team, and some wonderful teachers in other grades.  I have known many students to graduate from Noyes who are wonderful and have since graduated from Banneker and gone to some great colleges.  So please take you judgements and assumptions and LEAVE DC!!  [/quote]

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I live in Brookland the kids that live in those housing projects are rough and there is no way around it.   They have egged my car, sworn at my kids are out way past 10:00 pm on many a night.   I am sure there are a few that have escaped, but I would never put my kid in Noyes not just because it was the epicenter of the whole Rhee cheating scandle but because it has all the issues of an inner city school with out many other real community supports.   There are some realities we can't be PC about and trying to shame a poster because she tells the truth is not going to help those kids. [/quote]

Yes, I too have lived in Brookland for over ten years and am very familiar with the children in the area, as a teacher, parent and citizen.  It's very easy to judge how other people raise their kids and people often validate their judgements with personal reasons.  In the end, judgements are still judgements.  I have children in Noyes and it has been fine.  Lots of learning happening.  There is something you can find unappealing in any school, so it is important to look optimistically with hope, but not be blinded.  I am certainly not desiring to be PC.  What I am in support of, is being HUMAN and having some understanding that is uninhibited by judgement.  By the way, how are you helping "those kids"?  This is your community right?  It takes a village.  Truth is relative to what rock you live under.[/quote]

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