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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've come to conclusion that school choice is mostly an illusion in the District. More like school [i]chance[/i] without any first rate options after elementary school. [/quote]

This. The funny thing about this thread is that there are a bunch of wealthy people on it (if you can afford to buy a row house IB for Brent or Maury or Deal or Hardy, you are wealthy, even if that was back in 2012 -- middle class people cannot afford to buy a 750k fixer upper IB for Brent) arguing about which of them made the best choice. I am actually middle class and could never afford a 750k house. My kid doesn't go to Brent or Maury, not because I'm too dumb to figure out those schools are good, but because I am not rich enough to afford to be able to send my kid there.

No amount of attending PTO meetings before I have kids, or "doing my research" will change that. All we can do is try our luck at the lottery, do our best with wherever we end up, and look at real estate in the suburbs and try to figure out if it would be worth the added costs of commuting (which in our case would involve buying two cars because one way we afford to live in the city is by not owning a car at all).

It's just funny. Y'all treat DC's public schools like you are private school parents choosing from among the best private, and bragging about which school you were clever enough to know to go to. You're a tiny slice of DC public school parents and to the rest of us, it doesn't work that way at all. [/quote]

What's fascinating is spending $1M+ on a home than worrying and complaining about the quality of schools. There is no way I'd ever do that unless I was a staunch believer in private schools. Seems like personal choices won over long-term planning. [/quote]

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