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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think some of the churn is innocent.  People move, people leave town, and when people move to the suburbs for a better school they may be moving a preschooler as a younger sibling.  But it is a problem.[/quote]

But people changing schools for a better opportunity are guilty. LMAO.[/quote]

It isn't a matter of guilt. It's a matter of attitude. Everyone in this town is out for themselves, and damn anyone else. There's so little forethought. So little patience, so little understanding of actual education and its process. I've seen this issue cross all class and cultural levels. Almost everyone I know in any DC school, be it public, charter, HRCS, WOTP, whatever--isn't thrilled, and would jump ship tomorrow, given the chance. Maybe I just know the wrong people. But as long as this attitude prevails, there will be no solid PTAs, no effective fundraising, no momentum in improving the lot of all children, not just one's own. It is a real issue here, and one I think pretty unique to DC. Maybe it's the transient nature of the town, maybe it's the crazy real estate, maybe it's that so many insufferable, nervous type A families move here. I don't know.

But it's a real problem, as I said. We try. I know a few neighbors who try. But it often feels like spitting in the wind, and this really wasn't true in our old city, in our old gentrifying neighborhood. There, we had a feeling of community. Here, I have a feeling like everyone is underlining passages of the Fountainhead, even though they'd never admit to reading such a piece of jingoistic trash. [/quote]

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