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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How did this thread go from school commute to mayoral preferences? DCUM needs to calm down.

We used to drive our kid from NW to NE from Prek-3 to middle school for charter schools. It was definitely a 35-40 minute commute for drop off and then I would turn around and go drive to work in Georgetown.

BTW: some DC kids/parents take 2 buses and metro from Wards 7 and 8 to get their kids to mid-city charters or magnets. If you don’t think the commute fits with your lifestyle, it’s fine. Just please give your space up at the charter for another family.

For us, it was worth it for the charter school curriculums (LAMB & Truth). Also, I saw it as more time with my kid. It goes fast. They are at Walls now.  Our inbound elementary was Stoddert. Enjoy the time with your little ones whatever you choose![/quote]

Being in boundary for Stoddert and driving across the city certainly is a choice.[/quote]

Yes, always baffled by these choices. I guess with LAMB you get immersion and Montessori but personally I would have given up by 3rd.

I am far from a DCPS booster but some DCPS elementaries are really strong and it's always wild to me when people give up great IB options for charters I think are only okay. To each their own, of course, but it's just hard for me to wrap my head around it.[/quote]

What is hard to understand about this? Where do you send your kid to high school if you've sent them to a DCPS elementary? Or do you live in NW and have never needed to think about this?[/quote]

NP but the PP they are responding to said they’re in bound for Stoddert.  So sounds like they have a great by right elementary, middle and high school.  And instead drove their kids across the city.[/quote]

They wanted Montessori and to them their IB options were not better.   And it sounds like it worked out great for their kid who is now at Walls.

What is so hard to understand?[/quote]

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