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The commute was too much for us as well...if it was located where Walls is located (or anywhere in central DC) then the calculation would have been different[/quote]

I'm curious where you live, given your perspective that Walls is central and McKinley is not...
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lol +1...McKinley is about as close to "central DC" as you can get. 1.5 block from North Capitol that divides the city. I think PP means "central to her upper Caucasia area"[/quote]

False. McKinley is a 15-20 minute walk from the red line metro, through one of the worst neighborhoods in NE DC where more than one child has been shot or stabbed to death after school in recent memory.

Walls is a 5-7 minute walk from the blue/orange/silver line (so actually accessible to W 7 and 8) and the walk is through one of the safest neighborhoods in DC.

For that and other reasons, nobody is choosing McKinley over Walls. [/quote]

Alum here. I DID choose Tech over Walls and friends that went to Walls had way less of a personal or even extracurricular life than I did. I enjoyed my time at Tech AND earned a full ride into a good school. My friends at Walls also got into good schools but hated their lives and needed mental health support way more. My teachers cared about more than my grades. [/quote]

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