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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]And the award for missing the point goes to PP![/quote]

No.  Addressing the point that PP was threatening to leave the District for burbs if it wasn't for charters, and that would make the rest of the left-behinds so sad.  The left-behinds would be so sad 'cause they wouldn't have the tax base of the defectors.  Like in the 1980s.

1.  the departed will be immediately replaced by childless people who contribute just as much tax base
2.  the District has always been home to affluent parents, even in the 80s, 90s, and 00s, before PP arrived with all of his fancy taxable income.  
3.  his fancy taxable income isn't all that.   It's only in the aggregate that it means anything
4.  if the aggregate left for Vienna because no charter schools, see #1.

It's always been this way in DC, this cycle.  The differential now is due to increase in numbers, not some sea-change of school-attendance philosophy

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No, many neighborhoods would not attract childless couples nor would they attract families able to pay private school tuition and huge mortgages.  Housing prices would simply be less in Brookland, Petworth, eckington, edgewood, 16th street heights etc. and that would mean a smaller tax base. The huge housing cost increases in much of the gentrifying city was absolutely fueled by families who into charters or who hoped to.  Sure logan circle or U street or the hill east or Trinidad doesn't need us for houses and thsu taxable income to skyrocket, but many other places in the city do.  Without charters, brookland houses would go for 450,000- 500,000 tops.[/quote]

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