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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You “roll with it” no matter where you live. It’s just that in some areas, more things will roll the way you like it than in other areas. It’s up to you to figure out which area fits you best. If you are wanting to send your kid to an elementary in NW, my guess is that you probably should be living there in the first place.[/quote]

This.  Some areas there is much more certainty and guarantee for a good school feed.  Also, frankly it’s a pain in the ass to take your kid to far extracurriculars because no really good offerings or demand far exceeds supply and you can’t get what you want.

Everyone has to roll with it but life is just much easier in some places than others.  And it’s a pain in the neck applying to privates or playing the lottery for middle and high school.  It’s not just simply ranking schools in the lottery, you need plan A, B, and C.  The private school application is a whole other bear from parents who went thru it.

I won’t even touch on the supplementing which is another huge bear.

[b]It’s not as easy or simple as the Swarthmore PP makes it seem.  It’s a lot of time, energy, resources, and money.  [/b][/quote]

NP. You are projecting. They in no way said it was "easy or simple". They explained their process and reasoning [b]and said for them it wasn't a big deal.[/b] Why is it that people like you think it is fine to impose your value system on others but anyone who even explains what they do or why, without judging what you do, is somehow attacking you or encroaching on your freedoms?

They didn't judge you or suggest your choices were wrong. You and a bunch of other DCUM fragiles told her that her choices were wrong and that she should be making teh same choice you made. Fragile white people.[/quote]

This is the problem that I see all of the Hill discourse about schools/kids. People give you a carefully curated explanation about why "XYZ is really no big deal, it's great for our family!" while they leave out TONS of relevant information. It's all fine and well for different people to do different things, but there is a (seemingly calculated at times) effort to paint a rosy picturel.  If you don't start to learn how to interpret these statements, then you can make the wrong decisions for yourself.  It don't really care about PP's choice to schlep to MoCo for orchestra; I do care about the misrepresentation about it being no big deal, as well as the failure to understand how much easier it can be if you actually just live closer to where the amenities for kids exist.  Like, public middle schools where the orchestra is so good your kid doesn't need it to be an extracurricular! [/quote] Yes, life closer where amenities for kids exist, like the public library one block from our house on Capitol Hill and the swim center that's half a mile away.  How about the 2 Metro stations (serving 4 lines between them) within a 15-min walk, and the National Mall, where one of my kids volunteers at a museum he reaches on his bike.  My kids mostly get to their own extra curriculars by Metro, along with their orthodontist in VA. We have beloved neighbors of 20 years (their houses are attached to ours) with keys to our place in case kids get locked out or need help. Any wonder that some of us choose to stay put in our pretty walkable historic neighborhood?[/quote]

It's great for you that your kids don't have any needs or preferences that can't be served on the Hill, and that you have kids who you trust on Metro. Let's not even talk about the atmosphere in the public libraries ... [/quote]

I'm at the SE library on a regular basis and it's fine?[/quote]

Would you let your 10 year old walk alone to the SE library and hang out there?[/quote]

I did do exactly that. He used take the metro home from BASIS by himself and do homework at the SE library until I got off work to pick him up. We never had any problems? What are you worried about exactly?[/quote]

PP thinks the SE libary is sketchy. We live 3 blocks from that library and hang out there regularly, but I guess we don't see the issue either, probably because we live in a "sketchy" area.[/quote]

Yeah you don’t see it because you don’t want to, just like the dad whose kids witnessed that murder in the Petworth library. The SE library and Eastern Market Plaza and 700 block of Pennsylvania Ave are not safe. They just are not. You can chose to ignore it and allow your kids to take that risk, but you don’t get to pretend that the facts are different from what they are. [/quote]

I've lived on the 800 block of D street for 13 years. I think I know what the "facts" are pretty well. That entire area is fine, especially now that the park area has been renovated. [/quote]

lol! have you not been in that park? [/quote]

NP but I have been in the park hundreds of time.

You don’t have a clue.  Where do you live?[/quote]

I am in Eastern Market many times a week. The playground side is nice. The metro side is full of sketchy loiterers. All up the 700 block of Penn Ave is sketchy loiterers. Granted it is actually better since the methadone clinic closed. Fewer ODs & extremely high folks. [/quote]

You didn’t answer the question:  where do you live?[/quote]

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