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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]00:38 here -- I have one child at a private school and one at Key.  The one at private -- we don't have any of his classmates living near us and there's no baseball or soccer team.  That was my point about "what's great about Key" -- with Key, there are literally a dozen of his classmates who play soccer and baseball together and we see them all over the place.  At the Safeway, at restaurants, on the sidewalk, etc.  It's very nice.  It's much easier to get to know the parents too, and playdates are a snap.  We simply don't get that with our other son who's at a private school that has kids from scattered all over DC/MD/VA.  And by extension, I assume kids at Hardy don't get that easy community and togetherness either.[/quote]

11:44 here. Everything you say is true. However, here is why you come off as tone-deaf: in DC, attending an in-boundary school is not the norm. Roughly 40% of public school students attend charters, which are city-wide, and about half of the kids in DCPS attend out-of-boundary. At the same time, Hardy is widely regarded as the second-best DCPS middle school, and every year hundreds of kids from around the city apply to go there out of boundary and are turned away. Large swaths of the city have no middle schools at all. [b]So while your plight may be unacceptable to you, you're going to get zero sympathy because many, many families would gladly trade places with you.[/b][/quote]

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