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No school system can satisfy everyone.  And no set of changes like this can satisfy everyone. You have people with choice of where to live who lose from the DME proposal, people with choice of where to live who benefit, and of course the many people with less choice whose interests still matter.  I mean ultimately "You gotta do what I like cause I can MOVE" is simply not something that should stop an otherwise good plan.   Its like the folks on the Hill constantly whining how their problems are hurting the Distict, even as the gentrification frontier on the Hill advances block by block by block. That does not mean their problems should not be addressed - just that there is no tax base reason for it to be urgent.[/quote]

Hill families aren't whining when they throw their hands in the air and move for MS because they strike out in charter lotteries and obviously can't send their kids to Eliot-Hine, Jefferson or Eastern, where most kids don't test proficient, and there are no real honors classes, or white kids for that matter.

There are tax base reasons to retain high SES parents of young children, since taxpayers replacing them, often empty nesters these days, generally will not pay as much into city coffers over time.

Vibrant cities obviously do not run on tax considerations alone.  I say this as a parent who spent years lobbying DDOT for new sidewalks, alley paving, and street paving on my banged up little street, mainly to help get my family's own strollers, scooters and kid bikes around the block - DDOT came through eventually, in style.  I was also involved in fund-raising to create the Stanton Park playground, with other parents.

Define urgent.  You're with DCPS in wanting to wait decades until we have decent neighborhood middle schools?  Why should the city wait?

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