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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]After reading your story, I'm wondering why you didn't see the writing on the wall for MS somewhere between 2014 and the present.

[b]Our situation wasn't all that different from yours in 2014.  We had bought a place IB for JO Wilson, before kids.  We worked hard to spruce the house up, sold up, and bought a bigger fixer upper IB for Maury in 2014,[/b] now with 2 toddlers.  We bought house #2 after sitting in on Brent, Maury, Watkins/Cluster and Ludlow PTA meetings, to get a feel for the lay of the land where rising Hill elementary schools were concerned.  We attended open houses at Eliot-Hine and Stuart Hobson before we bought house #2.  We started looking at PARCC scores for EH and SH and asking about advanced classes.

Several years ago, upon discovering that some Hill families were not getting off the BASIS 5th grade WL, and that Latin 1 was becoming very difficult to access, we started saving for parochial MS. We researched parochial school options as Plan B in case lottery luck wasn't in the cards, which was time consuming.  We didn't get into BASIS, Latin 1 or Inspired Teaching last year, so returned to Maury for 5th. Our only option for 6th grade in the public system this past spring was DCI. We decided against the long, complicated commute and studying a random language.  Our oldest will start at a parochial MS in VA in the fall, which we can afford.

It sounds like you didn't dig deep enough, you didn't look far enough ahead, took too much well-intentioned advice at face value. [/quote]

Timing is the difference. You bought a place off H Street 10 (or more) years ago. Prices skyrocketed. You were then able to trade in for a house IB for Maury right before the modernization (so before prices skyrocketed for houses IB for Maury). Thus you were never in the same position as a person buying their first home in the area in 2014, before having kids. You benefitted from two fortuitous things that you had limited control over.

It sounds like you got lucky but chalked it up to[b] attending PTO meetings for multiple elementaries before you had kids at school age, which is weird.[/b] You were fortunate to be the right age and in the right point in your career, and married, and with access to the right amount of capital in order to by 2012 or earlier. You aren’t a genius.

Good luck with the MS lottery next year. I’m sure you’ll find something.[/quote]

Not weird, shrewd given that PP was about to sink her savings into a property. Kudos to her for scoping out the elementary school landscape as she was able. PTO meetings are generally open to the public, and you get a good feel for a school community by attending one, for free.  More prospective DCPS parents should do that.[/quote]

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