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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Even more desperate but, collectively, there aren't as many UMC families in those neighborhoods as on the Hill.  And the ones there are less likely to be as dug in as the CH crowd, mostly longtime homeowners.  Many of these people arrives as Hill staffers in their early 20s.  Now they're in their 40s and 50s and aren't in the mood to leave.[/quote]

Maybe you should get out more. Bloomingdale and Shaw are lousy with UMC homeowners with mid-elementary-age children.[/quote]

Can verify that this is true. Getting trickier as this wave reaches middle school age... Many people moved at that point, we went with BASiS, have several friends at Latin, and lots of people choose ITDS with the hopes of getting their kids into one of the application high schools or private. There is a lot of enthusiasm for the John Francis option for those three grades who now have those rights in Shaw, and a bit of nervousness around the new Euclid option. I really really hope that DCPS makes that school appealing. [/quote]

The best thing they could have done for Euclid would have been to make Francis-Stevens PK-5 and send the middle schoolers from Ross, F-S, and Thomson to Euclid along with the kids from Seaton, Garrison, and Cleveland. That would be a big enough school that kids at any level of achievement would have a good number of peers, and it could offer a range of classes, clubs, and sports. Now any momentum is split between the two middle schools and they each need to spend on administrators.[/quote]

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