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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We live in SE DC.  I love it.  My oldest DS goes to a good Hill DCPS school and went to a daycare where many of the children were poor.  I think he's awesome - I am clearly biased.  I think he has the best social skills of any 7 year old I've ever met.  We are white.  We have been to parties where everyone else is black - he walks right into the room of kids and is like, "What are we going to play?"  He understands that some people have disabilities because he has classmates with disabilities.  He understands that some families have gay parents because we have friends who are gay and go to church with families where the parents are gay.

I do think he might be getting a better reading/math education in Arlington/Mont. County or a good private school.  However, I think we are preparing him for life in our amazingly diverse and diversify city and county.  [b]If he's really smart and becomes a doctor, he will walk into his first day of residency in an urban emergency room and be less freaked out and more comfortable with diversity.[/b]

With every school and every neighborhood there are trade offs.  [/quote]
Agreed.  That's what I want for my kid.  [/quote]

I also agree.

On a larger societal note, it is profoundly depressing the degree to which income level, housing costs, and school quality are linked. The "good" public schools are all in wealthier, whiter neighborhoods where housing is basically unaffordable if your HHI is less than $100k. My husband and I are both educated professionals. In the context of the rest of our families (who live in other parts of the country), our $175k HHI is astronomically high. In DC, we cannot afford to buy in the "nice" neighborhoods because 3 bedroom houses in those areas are over a million dollars.[/quote]

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