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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not buying it. Believe me, nobody who renovated a decrepit, gutted shell of a Hill row house 15 years ago, then got their own construction permits after the renovation budget didn't extend for a contractor or permit facilitator to do it for them, is overvaluing their efforts.

Things exactly weren't "going well" for most of us for 5 or 10 years after we bought.  There was far more crime on the Hill in the early 2000s than there is now.  Our house was burgled twice between 2008 and 2010.  Even the best of the DCPS Hill elementary schools were still iffy in those days.  At that time,[b] in-bound parents of babies and toddlers would sometimes get involved in PTAs, even before the ECE years,[/b] to try to improve the schools.

What I see happening these days is parents who don't do nearly enough research, realistic thinking or back-up planning having a tendency to hit a wall on middle school if they lack lottery luck at BASIS or Latin.  We've been putting money away for a back-up parochial middle school for a decade and went to a lot of hassle and test prep to prepare to apply to half a dozen.  We're not wealthy--we earn 150K between us--but we planned to stay and have.

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Having been there, that part just wasted everyone's time.[/quote]

NP who doesn't know what you're getting us. DCPS elementary schools will take in-boundary volunteers where they can find them. To my knowledge, the parents of toddlers were the ones who got the ball rolling on major change at Brent 20 years ago, Maury 15 years ago, Ludlow 5 years ago.  Good for them.  Yes, if you don't want to move to the burbs for schools eventually, you do what you can to stay, starting now.[/quote]

This whole line of argument is so absurd. The point here is not “what kind of random machination can someone do to stay on the Hill” but rather what the bulk of normal people have as dependable options. Useless suggestions include:

- plan to be rich and buy a $1+ house in N Arlington
- plan to have the money to send kids to private MS and HS (and of course plan to have your kids admitted)
- plan for your housing equity to double 
- volunteer at the HS and MS starting when your child is 2, and plan for that to turnaround the schools in 10 years
- plan to get a spot at Latin or Basis

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