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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]You're right, I did base my premise on the ability to move, but, IIRC, none of the responding parents said their reason for not going to a better district was the inability to move. Among the reasons were that they liked their neighborhood, they didn't want an hour commute (in all fairness, my friends' commute downtown increased by only 15mins - from 20 mins to 35), they were hoping to get in lotteries, or just didn't like the idea of living in the 'burbs. I know this is going to sound judgmental, but those don't seem like legitimate reasons to put a child in a bad school. I can understand, though, if they can't afford to move but didn't want to admit it to the OP, so they came up with other reasons. To be honest, I never considered Arlington schools until I looked at the test scores, a direct result of this thread. While Shepard is a solid school, I'd think that most parents would prefer a school that scores in the 90's vs the 60's. I agree with a pp who said that some parents have different priorities. They and their children have to live with their choices; I don't. So, to each his own. [/quote]

Do you direct your judgment at follow suburbanites who live in PG county?  How about Alexandria?  How about South Arlington?  Do people who live in all those places have "legitimate reasons to put a child in a bad school?"  Or is this just a DC thing?

I can afford to move, but I like the charter we're in for a lot of reasons, not the least of which is that it's as good or better than many of the suburban schools we'd move to.  And it may be at some point that we'll move because of schools - middle school is a likely time.  But to assume that anyone who lives in the city is in a bad school is pretty silly, don't you think?

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If your child didn't get a spot in the charter and you had to enroll in your IB school, what would have done?

I don't think you've read anything I've posted before and you're taking my response to one person's comments out of context. I live in DC. It's in my previous post if you care to read it.[/quote]

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