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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You people who think the gentrification of DC even had a prayer relying on "neighborhood schools" slay me.

Avoiding the neighborhood schools in DC is what built Montgomery County at DC's expense.

Charter schools rescued this city. Now it's just a bonus that some of us can live in cool neighborhoods, have better school options than Ward 3, and still have a smaller mortgage. [/quote]

Yeah, I agree with this.  The following sentence is particularly misguided:

[quote]They're ensuring that when professional families start moving into a community, they focus on safety, police presence, and even the appearance of the local parks and green spaces, but they pay lip service only to the schools while jumping onto a rickety lifeboat in the form of charters. [/quote]

The underlying assumption that all those professional families would have moved to those same neighborhoods if the only choices were crappy IB DCPS or private schools is laughable.  Those neighborhoods became an option because of the possibility that there could be a public education option beyone the local DCPS (that didn't involve driving across the park to go to an OOB school every morning - not that that is an option anymore).   [/quote]

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