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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In general, affluent families don't depend on the lottery. Working class families do. Skipping the line in the lottery is an affront to everyone who depends on the lottery, which is why it was a political hot button. So I disagree with the premise of the story. [/quote]

Middle class working folks don't get to skip the lottery either.  DC is a hard city for middle class or lower to make ends meet. The current system is killing middle class DC.  [/quote]

DC isn't designed for middle class people with kids.  DC schools are terrible except for ward 3 which is the most expensive ward in the city.

Most people in DC don't have kids which is the real reason education doesn't get as much traction from council

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There are also good schools in Ward 6, namely Brent, Maury, SWS, as well as fast rising schools Cap Hill Montessori, Ludlow-Taylor, Watkins.[/quote]

come on ... PP could barely hold nose long enough to tolerate Ward 3 schools  -- the idea that good schools can be found outside the bubble is going to cause brain hurt[/quote]

Interesting to see what gentrification is doing though.  Wards 1, 3, 7, 8 are all actually decreasing in median income.  2, 4, 5, and 6 are all increasing - and in the cases of 4, 5, and 6 it's very rapid.  Those wards all make use of charters in significant numbers.  There are clearly some comfortably 6 figure incomes in those wards, they're just not using DCPS.[/quote] 
How is Wards 1 median income decreasing? I'm super confused.[/quote]

They are looking at this data, compiled by kids count.

It isn't Ward 1 median income for all residents that is decreasing, but the median income of Ward 1 [i]families with children[/i]. An important distinction. http://datacenter.kidscount.org/data/tables/6749-median-income-of-families-with-children-by-ward#detailed/21/1852-1859/false/870,573,869,36,868/any/13835[/quote]

Ahhh, of course. Poor families in Columbia Heights houses leave to be replaced by millenial singles in condos. Poor families in Petworth houses leave to be replaced by wealthier families in flipped houses.[/quote]

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