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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just did a quick google maps survey of the area and came up with a list of schools already in the area (1 mile cutoff)

Schools nearby:
Lab School Campus #1 (0.0 mi)
Lab School Campus #2 - Reservoir Rd (0.7 mi)
Georgetown Day School (0.3 mi)
Montessori School Of Washington DC (0.3 mi)
St. Patricks Episcopal Day School - Macarthur (0.4 mi)
St. Patricks Episcopal Day School - Whitehaven (0.7 mi)
George Washington University - Mount Vernon Campus (0.6 mi)
The River School (1.0 mi)
The Field School (0.9 mi)
Georgetown University (0.6 mi)
Washington International School (0.9 mi)
Duke Ellington (1.0 mi)

Did I miss any?  Do we really need a 13

th school in a 1 mile radius?[/quote]

Advocacy tip: if you're concerned about coming across as anti public schools, it's probably not a good strategy to go to a forum dedicated to public schools and act like private schools are the same thing.[/quote]

My kids go to a private school AND I pay DC taxes that support public schools. Does this make me anti-public school?  I don't live where the big fight is going on, but parents in our school do.  Some Palisades people have been pushing to get that old hardy school for a long time.  Now some Foxhall people don't want a school biult on their park.  So everybody is mad at each other.  The 'Im so noble' pailsades group is happy with the city's plans to add the two schools .  Just saying that both groups are zealots .  Another thing, a lot of private school are actually pretty diverse because it is a goal and they give aid.

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"Pretty diverse?"  You need to take one of those Duck Boat tours and see more of the city too.

At most "independent" schools in DC the cutoff for financial aid for a family with one child is a household income of around $225,000. Eighty percent of the public school kids in DC are classified as "economically disadvantaged." The maximum household income for a family of three to me classified as economically disadvantaged is around $30K. The charity cases at your school would be the rich kids in DCPS. [/quote]

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