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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I also attend our IB DCPS-- but the above posting is ridic.  It just isn't an option for all DC residents to attend a great IB school regardless of willingness to "make some financial sacrifices".  there just isn't enough housing in those limited areas.[/quote]
I agree, but there are about 100 apartments available for rent to make your kid IB in West of the park.And that just around 2 schools.It's limited, but not full,far from it.And please don't start with your not all can afford blah-blah-blah.I make 48k and live here.
It is about choices.[/quote]

This poster is really, really sick in the head or else has led an extremely sheltered life.  I recommend a tour of DC and some quality time with people with precious children who are saved from terrible public schools by the option to enroll at a charter school.[/quote]

You are right, in spirit, but you and I know very well that those destitute single moms who really, really, truly have NO residential options aren't the ones bickering on this  thread about residential mobility ("Wah, we can't ALL live in a $2M Victorian inbounds for WOTP! Stop being mean!")

No, instead, the far greater odds are that the people lecturing about how they absolutely. can. [i]Not[/i] live inbounds for a top 10 DCPS have prioritized other factors. Usually: space. Lower rent so more discretionary income. Proximity to large family in Northeast DC. "I've always lived in ______ (Trinidad, SW, Edgewood) and this is where I feel comfortable".  Hip and edgy (Columbia hts). Hope for real estate appreciation from the chance you took buying in petworth in 2008.

Etc etc etc.  I've met you all

And again, I'd like to reiterate that there are absolutely impoverished women in DC with no other choice whatsoever but to live in government or section 8 housing in Congress Heights and use a local DCPS with the worst scores.  I wish they had better options.

But that's not you, or anyone else posting on this thread.  You had choices, and you made them.

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Wait a sec, though.  Isn't it a good thing to have educationally ambitious people living all over the city rather than concentrated in a small part of it?   Charter schools allow for that.  And once those concentrations are up in other areas, the numbers in the neighborhood schools could rise and lead to more desireable schools.  There is absolutely no gain by urging people to sacrifice to all crowd in to one area and leave the rest of the city to rot.  I don't get it[/quote]

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