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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My kid is still little, but we're going to stick with EOTP schools. I know they aren't all amazing now, and there are huge questions about the middle and high school situations, but I have to believe that this is just part of DC changing. Pre-80s most of the schools in DC were just fine or even highly rated. After the crack epidemic forced a lot of people (black and white), especially with kids, out of the city it changed the entire approach to elementary education in DC. Now parents are flocking back to the city and things have no choice but to change. With interested parents, I have to believe that the schools will all improve and meet high standards again. [/quote]

I don't think thats quite true.  The white population was decling from the 1950s on (school integration, as a matter of fact) and was almost done when the 1968 riots pretty  much drove the last whites out of EOTR and the NE periphery - the only ones left were WOTP and a tiny part of the Hill.  I think though the middle class black flight may have been more concentrated during the 1980s. [/quote]

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