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[quote=Anonymous]U street got started WAYYYY before the charters heated up. The the Verizon center, and DC's Great Streets initiative. The fact that the real estate market never crashed here. Whatever, I fail to see that it makes a difference in this discussion.

The source of the problem, really, is that DCPS failed to respond to the charter schools/gentrification chicken-egg problem. Look at all of Ward 5, which doesn't even HAVE a middle school and not even one decent neighborhood school for all of Brookland. They even shut down the Montessori program at Langdon, which had an outside chance of attracting families. As a result, Ward 5 parents who don't feel like starting their own schools are losing their minds trying to play the lotteries.

And, by the way, we have tried to get together and formulate a plan to engage at one of the schools and work towards a solution. It is a massive task that requires a serious commitment from a critical mass of families PLUS the principal and admin, which is very, very hard to pull off.

See the SWS thread to see how the same problem at Ludlow Taylor is playing out.[/quote]

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