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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]The neighborhood around E-H is fine. I've lives two blocks from the school for the past 8 years. I think my kid would be safer walking to E-H than sitting on a bus to an from Latin for an hour a day. [/quote]

yup. it's not the neighborhood, it's the stigma. i have a PK kid in E-H feeder school. i hope we go to E-H. it will really just depend on how many of our cohorts/schoolmates are there. it is indeed discouraging to hear someone question our motives if we do go to OUR inbound public school. what on earth could the motive be, other than to make the school great? isn't that a win-win?? i agree with a previous poster. there has to be algebra 1 in middle school, or we'll suck it up and look for a charter (cringe).[/quote]

As far as the neighborhood, it's hard to generalize because it depends greatly on one's perception.  If you live near E-H, you can't judge how it feels to outsiders, and outsiders are not in a great position to judge how it feels to actually live there.  I can't claim to be very familiar with area (except that a few years back I would charitably describe the walk back from RFK as dicey), but I would think it similar to H Street.  Some act as if H Street is perfectly developed; others as if gunfire was a regular occurrence.  The truth is in the middle.  We go to H Street regularly, and there are regularly "keep your head down" moments (and by that I mean you don't want to give the bum or drunk or addict or loud&aggressive person a reason to notice you).

But if there are E-H parents who believe in the neighborhood, I think it would behoove them to spread the word because I don't think (well, I know) that their view is shared by those to the west.

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