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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's gentrification - that's happenin everywhere. I think it's more complicated. It's gentirifcation among one of the most liberal, educated, ambitious, not-profit-working populations in the country. How do you say what you think without the PC police freaking the f--- out?  [b]How do you balance you Child's needs against your politics?  [/b]When you have nothing but compassion for the kids in DC General but don't neccessarily want to send your 5 year old into a classroom wih kids from said shelter - a "grass roots movement" for Mandarin immersion takes on a lot of underlying BS[/quote]

Observing this dynamic is one of my favorite parts of reading DCUM.[/quote]

Added to this ^^, I have observed as a really long-time dcum partcipant that Hill parents -- alone -- combine this cognitive dissonance with the sincere belief that if they just use their mad operative skills will get them what they want out of dcps -- laws, customs, equity and the other 7 Wards be damned.

It would be funny if it wasn't so insufferable and classist.  Being special counsel to the committee on ABC doesn't always translate. [/quote]

What are you nattering on about? The reason the threads deteriorate is because there are a limited number of prime spots in Hill schools. Some parents think that anything other than Brent or Maury is completely unacceptable. Others of us disagree. There is a lot of handwringing about loss of in-boundary for SWS as well. I don't see a monolithic, single-perspective Hill view at all. [/quote]

I call BS. Your straw man doesn't stand up to scrutiny.  Families with kids in Brent and Maury aren't paying all that much attention to other Hill elementary schools.   Even if we did suffer from this mythical fixation, what reason do we have for begrudging academic gains at Watkins, LT or anywhere else for that matter?  [/quote]

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