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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It not cheating, it’s taking matters into my own hands when the people I literally elect and pay to do their jobs simply—don’t.[/quote]

This. I'm not a boundary cheat and don't endorse cheating, but I'm not going to judge fellow DC parents in tough circumstances related to access to acceptable schools, not when we have a mayor and city council member who don't care if we have acceptable neighborhood schools here EotP. Fenty and Rhee cared, Gray cared, Bowser and Allen clearly don't. It's much too easy to point the finger at individual families whose public school choices have fallen apart on the turn of a dime.

I mention the situation of neighbors and friends of ours of 20 years, Federal workers with several kids who went to a DCPS ES, then to BASIS. Two of the kids could tolerate BASIS but one was miserable, although her grades were good. But she didn't get into Walls, Banneker, Latin or Duke Ellington and they didn't get enough fi aid to make a private HS work. The girl developed such serious mental health problems in the BASIS HS that her grades plummeted and she began skipping school. They couldn't get her into MacArthur in the middle of a school year and couldn't swing homeschooling. Desperate, they rented a small apt in Upper NW so the girl could switch to J-R. They had a relative live there to pay the rent, with the girl staying some weeknights. Her situation quickly stabilized and she's going great.

You guys are saying that the whole family should have uprooted in this situation. I'm saying that these parents, having done their level best to follow the rules for many years, deserved a viable public high school for all of their children, vs. failing Eastern, their best option after BASIS didn't work for one child.[/quote]

Hmm. In much of the country that's what you get -- one high school, take it or leave it.  If you don't like it, move or go private.

I'm not saying that's ideal, but people already have more options here than most places and certainly than when we were young.  The dysfunction of DC is not responsible for this family's plight.[/quote]

Most of DC's by-right high schools are much worse than average, so it sure is in that sense. There's nowhere in the country where college graduates in any significant number are sending their kids to schools like Eastern. [/quote]

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