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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Thanks all -- I was asking the question because I didn't for sure know the answer. It's making more sense now...[/quote]

Let me guess, OP. You bought a house in Brightwood? Michigan Park? But you don't want to send your kid to the local school because it's "not an option" so you're looking at charters?[/quote]

You're off, but what does that have to do with my original question anyway?[/quote]

Many people who are concerned about the sketchy areas where the charters end up buy in areas of town where the housing stock is relatively affordable but the IB schools are not good. [/quote]

So then why move to a sketchy area? I'm sorry, but Columbia Heights, Petworth, Brightwood and surrounding immediately environs have some of the worst crime rates in the city. They see just as much criminal activity as EoTR, sometimes worse. It boggles my mind to hear friends plunking down $700K on a row house and then kvetch about how the local schools "are not an option," how crime is so bad, why the MPD can't stop shootings before they happen, etc etc etc. You moved your young child into a crappy neighborhood - face the music.[/quote]

My preschool-aged daughter goes to a charter school in Petworth, where we also live, and they walk down their "sketchy" street to the playground (which is also one we take her to on the weekends) every day to play outside.

And there's been 50 percent less crime in 2016 so far within a 1,000-foot radius of our house in Petworth than there has been in the same radius of where I used to live in Dupont Circle.

I'm not concerned about where we live or where the school is.[/quote]

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