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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If you're on these boards to get yourself worked up, panicked, and hyperventilating, then stay on it and enjoy the adrenaline.

But if you come here for true advice, then chill! Your children are not doomed by any measure, absolutely and decidedly not, no matter what the fear mongers and action seeker here are trying to make you believe. I can tell you so based on years of experience with kids in DCPS and kids moving through the kind of rough patches that aren't even fathomable in today's state of DCPS anymore. Granted, we paid half of what you did for our house and that may make all the mental difference. But the bottom line is the same: our kids are doing exceptionally well by any measure, academically and socially, and so will yours, including if god forbid they had to attend Jefferson or Eliot-Hine.

Really, short of packing up and moving to (well, where exactly are schools at that much better?!), the very best action you can take at this time is take an active interest and start getting involved in your destination school. I guarantee you, you will not only feel good about it but also reassured.[/quote]

there are plenty of places where the schools are objectively better performing, but controlling for poverty shows DCPS students doing fine. Sadly DC has a stark class divide for schools just like everything else in DC.  Close-in and in-demand suburbs with competitive schools are equally if not more expensive than many parts of DC.[/quote]

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