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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Chicago sounds like a real pain in the tuchas for families with school-age children.  San Francisco, too.  And Manhattan.  It's really tough to be a highly-educated person who loves an urban environment but also wants to raise well-educated kids.  On the bright side:  the availability of self-determined options in D.C. is a lot better than what's available in some other cities.[/quote]

spare me.  you don't get to "love an urban environment" and not have to, you know, actually LIVE with your neighbors side by side.  [/quote]

You're trying to say something else.  Obviously, everyone who lives in the city lives next to their neighbors, "side by side."  You seem to be really angry that some people who have money can get a good school for their kids AND live in the city; whereas you are stuck with literally the worst performing school system in the United States because you either can't, or refuse, to move into a better public school boundary.  If you own your residence, it's still possible to move into a condo in a better school zone, depending on how much you care about your child's education.  Clearly, we need more condos to make choices along this line even easier; but you don't seem the type to even consider it.  Stew away.[/quote]

My kid goes to an excellent and diverse school, so I have no worries at all about the quality of his schooling.  What's gross is to say "Oh Muffie, don't you just love the urban environment" whilst clutching pearls at your children having to attend school along with the locals.  [/quote]

Where we seem to agree is we both like living in the City.  Where we disagree is my ability to see how the overall quality of DCPS is at an apocalyptic level of horrible, recognize that reality, and encourage others to do their best to avoid the worst.  Instead, you want to condemn your neighbors to to send their kids into that mess, based on some kind of moralistic mantra that I can't figure out or even wish to understand.  But, based on your last comment, it seems you have made a wise choice to benefit your family.  Good for you.  Hypocrisy though?[/quote]

My child is going to his zoned IB DCPS school and it's excellent.  We're considering the zoned middle school as well, but I think that if DCPS wants diversity they have to do more to engaged with high SES (not all white!) parents.  My "moralistic mantra" is "don't be a racist d*ck."  [/quote]

Wait - all of this preaching, and you're only "considering" the IB middle school.  Well, well, well.  You're not wholeheartedly embracing it?  What are your reservations?  Perhaps they are the same reservations as your neighbors, who have already moved their kids, have?

Elementary school in DC is easy, for the most part.  Most schools are fine.  But you're thinking of bailing when the rubber meats the road in MS. [b] There's a word for that, isn't there?  [/b][/quote]

I believe the PC phrase for this phenomenon is: "The school just isn't the right fit for my child."

It's the most loaded comment a parent can utter in DC.[/quote]

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