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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If gentrification's just a quirk, why are real estate values shooting up all over the city, even east of the River?

I agree with PP's who make the case that a good many DC public elementary schools on the Hill offer an education on a par with good ones in the burbs, partly because instructor: kid ratios are much better. Our friends who've hit the road from SWS, Maury, Brent and Ludlow-Taylor to MoCo and NoVa sound unhappy with nearly 30 kids in a room and no teachers aide. We've also got decent public options at Walls, Banneker and Ellington.  By-right middle schools outside the Deal district are the missing link.

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The quirk is the aspect of gentrification that does not allow you to insulate yourself from poverty the way you can insulate yourself inside your flipped rowhouse and your cafe with an unjustifiably hyped reputation (I mean Maketto obviously) or even creating an entirely different kind of public transportiom for yourself that literally runs parallel to the bus of the masses (I mean the street car). With middle schools you are in the same boat with everyone and getting a taste of how the rest of the city runs. [/quote]

That's the point - we don't want to have to choose and don't think we should have to choose between neighborhoods that are walkable and lively and schools that are not falling apart (Eliot Hine) or performing poorly. A middle school's composition could change pretty quickly, but it would take cohorts that are unlikely to present themselves because of the charter 5th grade option. [/quote]

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