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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]My pet theory is that people who paid the premium to move into Ward 3 do not like the idea of you being able to get an education that is equivalent or better to theirs. So, first of all this upsets their sense of entitlement - they paid more, so they should get more. Period. Secondly, specialty charter schools actually draw students out of the Ward 3 schools - which means there's more room for OOB students to come in. They perceive this to be a watering down of their preferred student body and it is very threatening.

If someone paid twice as much money for a shabby little house which feeds into JKLM then you paid for your gigantic townhouse in a neighborhood with bad schools, then they need to feel superior to you, dammit! And now, you have school options which are attractive? Well, that's not so good for the old investment... 
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No, honestly, a lot of us can afford private and send our kids to private as the default.  Our home values don't go down and really never have, so it's not about investment.

Coffee shop chatter up here is that it would be nice to have a very competitive, exam-entrance PUBLIC high school option --- akin to Stuyvesant or T.J.   Banneker and SWW sure ain't it.   Since Stuyvesant doesn't exist in DC, and it never will because DC's population is 500,000, not 5 million .... we go to GDS.

(full disclosure, our kids go to private but I'm intrigued by BASIS so I'm on this thread.  I fear though that BASIS will fall prey to the realities of the DC population and not become Stuyvesant-like, no matter what its curriculum guide states.  see, e.g., the 2-track problem at Yu Ying.)   [/quote]

My understanding is that the 2nd track at Y u Y in g is only really for the leading edge/oldest class.  I'be heard there is really no need for it with the students they got starting in PreK. [/quote]

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