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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]When I bought into my "hip" part of the city. It wasn't...we got our place for a steal with warnings about living in this horrible area. We were young and never even thought about having kids. Flash forward, and we now love our neighborhood, love the hipsters that grew around us and don't want to sacrifice.

Lucky for us, we are in a great charter, but why should my neighbors have to sacrifice because they didn't win the lottery?  We should ALL have great schools. Until the time we stop fighting with each other and start asking our political "leaders" to prioritize that we are nothing more then children complaining about something they want, but won't work to get. [/quote]

Nothing substantive will change, as long as parents accept that "choice" means the choice to drive all over town to get your kids to a public school based on the luck of a lottery.

How about we call it gambling and acknowledge DC parents accept that the government they pay taxes to seems to think it acceptable for parents to gamble their tax dollars on their children's education.

Le't s call it luck and acknowledge that in DC every citizen's right to a public education is strongly determined by government-sponsored luck - to add to the luck of being born (or not)  to parents who are loving and attentive, educated, lucratively employed,  and/or independently wealthy.

Yes, some things in life are luck, but public education?[/quote]

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