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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I'm not being "nosey", just observant since most kids in the neighborhood are more visible on the weekend instead of less. And you can stop the divorce/deceased/whatever trope, because that's not what it is -- it's called [b]young single mothers[/b] leaving their children in the city with their parents (to go to the same schools they did when they were young), and then having the child live with them on the weekends.

Maybe the grandparents have official custody, who knows who claims whom on their taxes, etc., but this is what happens on the Hill and bothers the people who buy their homes, live in them with their children, and don't feel like they can really be part of their IB school without being called "gentrifiers" in a derisive way.

Again, I'm not reporting them, but it's hard to ignore.[/quote]

Exactly, but not just young single mothers.  Also the parents of the drugged-out, incarcerated and generally under-employed and dysfunctional if the experience of our block is in any way representative.   The in-boundary grandparents and great-grandparents almost never have official custody, or rent or own jointly with the "lost generation" of parents  - they don't need to bother to get custody, not with DCPS happy to let them furnish their offspring with in-boundary addresses for schools.  Maury has cracked down on the practice and L-T should follow suit.

No point in reporting them when there's no chance in hell that DCPS will tangle with the elderly folk, who vote in droves coming off church buses.  [/quote]

^^^^^^ With people who think like this, DC will have its first elected Republican mayor soon.  As a native Washingtonian, it is disheartening to see my hometown being gentrified by self-entitled, high SES, white supremacist interlopers from middle Amerikkka.  If you are of the aforementioned group, you should sell your home and return to racially homogenized community of origin.[b][/quote]

Why is it ok for you to say the bolded? What would say to the white family who lived in, say, petworth in 1957 and whose son  said this: "It is disheartening to see my hometown being altered by entitled, moderate and low SES black interlopers from kountry places in the south.  If you are part of the aforementioned, you should leave my white neighborhood of Columbia heights/shaw/petworth/Brookland/Capitol Hill/eckington and return to your racially homogenized community in North Carolina. Or Georgia or wherever you migrated from."

You see, "your" black neighborhood in your hometown was mostly white before your people got there.  Crazy, but absolutely true unless you live in one of a few small pockets of dc.   Cities change, as DC did when your grandparents moved here from the south along with tens of thousands of other migrants and turned a previously white government town into a proud Chocolate City.  Now the city is changing again.  [/quote]

PP here.  Before you start typing, you should study some of the history of Washington, DC.  AA have been in DC since it's inception, which happened to include slavery.  One of the poshest neighborhoods in DC was once inhabited by a large population of AA.  I think one of the fundamental differences between what I said and your hypothetical, but entirely probable statement by the 1957 white son, is that Blacks from the south didn't bring the attitude that whites were what's wrong with the city.  In 2014, it is disheartening for me to witness that Washington, DC is being taken over by people who subconsciously hold white-supremacist values and assume that all AA children are low SES trouble makers. [/quote]

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