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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]PP, you sound like a reasonable person. I was referring to the tone of many, many posters in these here threads who are suggesting that if you send your children to any of the schools we mentioned - Deal, Walls, Wilson, Banneker, Ellington, Latin, etc. that our children will not be well prepared. That tone was just evident in the post made at 05:12, "One halfway decent charter HS, Latin, isn't much to brag about."

I could spend a day compiling the others. I don't even have children at any of these schools, but I find this attitude extremely negative, unhelpful and counterproductive. We need to stop pitting people against each and find ways to lift up all of our students.

Segregation is a huge reason that our schools are the way they are. Those parents who have the wherewithal to play the school game do. I get it. I am a parent too. Let's just put a moratorium on the trashing of schools that are in large measure effective, work to expand options for families and become a model for urban education.[/quote]

+1 PP.  I have been reading the, "Your child has no hope if not at Blair or TJ" threads as well.  It seems that person chose to move out of the city for educational reasons, and is making the case in order to validate that decision.  I don't mind a discussion of the relative merits, but I hope that person would listen to those of us with firsthand experience (kids in DC high schools) just as I have listened with interest to the description of Blair.  I'm pretty sure both scenarios have their ups and downs; that's what choice is.  I'm also not sure, from what I've heard, that Blair would be for us.  However--whoever that person is, can we get your friend the MIT recruiter's number?  Our kid will be happy to call him or her in a few years.  Thnx![/quote]

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