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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Back to the topic of the article, many middle class whites and blacks leaving will be bad news re: taxes which could impact schools. May not, if enrollment drops, spending per pupil may be similar.

DCPS has gone through boom and bust cycles before, when I first came to the city decades ago there were a LOT of vacant public school buildings.

FWIW, I know quite a few people who left DC and often DMV during cv and who do not plan to return. It was driven by crime and other factors, relocating to have open schools or family help during cv, for example. None regret it and many say they wish they had done it sooner. Many friend who left had school aged kids, some have very young kids. The crime, distance from family and COL were drivers for most.

The OP posed the question, how will so much middle class tax money (and I'd add white AND black) leaving DC impact schools? Probably negatively. Past is prologue.

On the upside, fears re: school overcrowding may ease. [/quote]

I don't doubt your experience, but my experience with families that I know in DC is so very different than yours.  I don't know a single family that left the city during Covid.  My kids are in late elementary and MS, so maybe that is the difference.  I live EOTP and only a few of those families attend WOTP schools, so we aren't all set in comfortable WOTP schools.  [/quote]

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