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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Some on the Hill are looking to the new MacArthur HS on MacArthur Boulevard as a back-up if our kids strike out at Walls. With MacArthur coming on line, this business of jumping to an ES in NW to access Deal and JR may become less common.  MacArthur opens in fall 2023 and should be a good bet for current 7th and 6th graders OOB, since it won't fill up quickly. DCPS is planning to offer similar academics to those at JR at MacArthur, including dozens of APs, BC calc, multi-variate algebra/college math, dual enrollment language courses past AP at George Washington etc. The commute from the Hill will only be a little longer than to Walls.[/quote]

The commute is horrific! You can get to Walls on the metro. Totally different. [/quote]

NP. The point, I think, is that with the new HS parents don't need to jump ship to a NW ES or MS, thereby negating the need to commute for 10 years or so. Families can rely on ES they like and try their luck for Latin or BASIS, maybe consider SH and see if it happens and know that a NW HS is an option. Yeah, the commute sucks. But these are HS kids and it is 4 years. Versus 10 years of ES + MS commuting just to secure a spot at JR.

PP's comment comes to this from a juvenile perspective. No one is saying that in a choice between a school on the metro and one that isn't that people would choose the one that isn't. The question is broader and more complicated.

P.S. I just love how you assume everyone lives near a Metro. That's an entitled view that tells us a lot about your worldview.  [/quote]

A NW high school is not an "option." You still need to *win a lottery* to get a spot there.  PS most people on the Hill live close to a Metro. But tell me again how entitled I am to believe that you should live in a neighbohood accessible to a school, by school bus?  "Entitlement" is also on my Hill Bingo card:

' "Hey, I think it would be nice to have this thing that people all over have for their kids"
"SO ENTITLED! On the Hill we don't have nice things, and WE LOVE IT!"
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You are lashing out and you don't even seem to know why or at whom. The point that was being made was that the new NW HS is not expected to be popular with current JR families which should make OOB enrollment at the new HS pretty easy. You can disagree with the premise, but that was the premise on which the discussion was based. If you could take your hate blinders off for a moment you might notice that. No one argued you should not have a HS where you live. No one. That wasn't part of any of the discussion. Not sure where you got that. And, no, "most people" on hill don't live "close" to a metro. Lots live 20+ minute walks away where a city bus would be a much better option. Not everyone lives in Eastern Market my friend.

Someone called you juvenile and you threw a temper tantrum. Not sure that doesn't prove the point.   [/quote]

Yes, call someone "juvenile" when they point out all is not rosy.  Sounds like a real bona fide effort to let people know the pluses and minuses of living on the Hill.

The point about JR is a) you still need to win a lottery to get in and b) it will be a PITA to get there.

The Hill is a kind of crappy place to live with older kids.  [/quote]

Why would anyone care about your opinion that the Hill is a bad place to live with older kids when you so manifestly don’t live there?[/quote]

added to my Hill Bingo card. “Haters are just jealous suburbanites!”[/quote]

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