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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]To above poster - dcum drama at it's finest. Bragging about your kids books - really!?[/quote]

NP. yeah crazy chip on shoulder and has something to prove?

very impressed pk4 teaches chapter book reading, no wonder all the hipsters are moving in for free pre-k![/quote]

I'm pretty sure the other poster started the book challenge but neither one really need to go there. [/quote]

The other poster did start it (basically saying, you think your kid is getting a good education, well is he reading yet? He can't possibly be as smart as my kid... not with that crappy school you picked).  You are right, though, I shouldn't have taken the bait.

Basically people will go to amazing lengths to justify their need to spend beyond their means, or to whine and moan about how hard it is to get by on $400k. [/quote]

how do people evaluate the quality of schools? that is a big driver of the high cost of housing and part of why people feel like they can't make it on $100k. how did u identity you up and coming neighborhood as having good and safe schools?[/quote]

PP here, I didn't.  I bought my house 10 years ago when I was single and didn't give it a second thought.  Then I got involved in the community, and eventually in the local school.  (Also, my neighborhood wasn't considered up and coming when I bought -- it wasn't yet -- and isn't now -- it's already arrived).

But the facts are that DCPS does PS3, PK4 and K extremely well, pretty much universally.  If you can start at PS3 and get involved you can evaluate what you think of the school for later grades or get a lottery spot at that point when competition is less intense.  In DC we are actually extremely lucky.  We have a plethora of choices.  There are some excellent schools which specialize in early childhood, or Montessori, or language immersion, or Reggio Emilia and while there are some that are extremely difficult to lottery in to, there are plenty of other options -- options which simply aren't available in other parts of the country, plus DCPS which are steadily improving and are typically very good in the early years.

Some of my neighbors send their kids to my son's school.  Others send them to charters.  I know of one family that do private.  But despite the angst that starts when you first consider PS3 everyone I know has landed somewhere they are happy with.  Of course, I am talking about elementary only.  I know few families that are in a position to start thinking about middle or high school yet.  But I'm confident that we will work something out by then.  [/quote]

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