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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the reason these Capitol Hill area middle school threads run on for pages ad nauseam is that lots of people in the neighborhood have shifted from thinking that you should probably leave by early elementary to you can stay through 4th/5th to a total lack of consensus over whether the middle schools despite their flaws might be reasonably viable and okay (but plan to go elsewhere for high school).  The middle school situation is not great but it is also different from some other neighborhoods like Shaw.  [/quote]

I agree there is no consensus like there used to be, and that leads to debate.

But I also think there are some cultural things about CH that lead to more in-fighting than in neighborhoods like Shaw, Petworth, Brookland, etc., which have similar dynamics between DCPS and charter choices. For whatever reason, CH seems to attract more judgmental personalities. I don't know why this is, but I've lived in DC a long time, in multiple neighborhoods, and it's true. People on CH tend to be more condescending and convinced that their approach is the *right* one, and there's less willingness to say "well every family is different" which is sort of the mantra of DC parents in most of the city, as a way of dealing with the lottery and inequity in school opportunities.

Maybe a higher concentration of lawyers or political types than elsewhere in the city? I don't know.[/quote]

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