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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]C'mon people.  Despite what he said on his blog, I am sure that the last year's spike in violent crime, including some notable incidents in Petworth (several daytime shootings with people and children walking around), played a role in their decision to move.  [/quote]

I do not see why you would be sure.  As he stated, he has been there 12 years, and it is certainly safer now than it was 12 years ago.  And the schools issue is quite enough for a move to make sense - Occam's Razor suggests no need to speculate on other motivation. [/quote]

People move due to crime when they have kids, not when they're single 20 somethings.  He has a 2 year old and baby on the way - I think it's highly likely that consideration of safety was equally as important as school choice. [/quote]

Plenty of single people move because of crime, and plenty of parents live in neighborhoods that some people consider unsafe (obviously including Petworth)  Given those facts, and the fact that DS explicitly said it was not about safety, I will give him the benefit of the doubt that he was telling the truth. [/quote]

I agree.  He doesn't want to dump on Petworth as being unsafe, at least not by explicitly stating so.  But he has no problem dumping on Bruce Monroe, a school which he's never had a child enrolled and he likely knows little to nothing about the school as a parent of an enrolled student.  That rubs me the wrong way.  He could have left the school question open the same way he did on neighborhood safety.[/quote]

How is he dumping on it? He didn't even specify the school. I have a lot of problems with that blog, even besides the blindly pro-gentrifier perspective (such as the way he never makes a phone call to find out the answers to questions people pose, just puts the question up and lets people click through the comments to find some useful information), but I don't think saying he's moving for better school options is unfair or unreasonable.[/quote]

Everyone knows it's Bruce Monroe and he was rezoned out of Powell.  That's a given.  People's reasons for moving are never a given unless they actually STATE it's because of schools, which is what he did.  [/quote]

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