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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Disagree because Ross parents are just as desperate for an appealing path to 12th grade in DC public schools as Maury, Brent, Ludlow-Taylor etc. parents in Ward 6. You can bet that a bunch of in-boundary Ross parents who want to stay where they are, near Dupont, would jump on the BASIS K-4 school if they could. After all, they and the Thomson parents will be the closest to the BASIS ES building if it's located near the original building. Looks like it will be if the project launches.  [/quote]

Based solely on housing prices, I'd guess Ross parents are more likely than Capitol Hill parents to have the income to go private if needed.[/quote]

Disagree because many Ross parents like us rent.  I would say more parents in the Brent district own.[/quote]

Ross parents tend to be very, very happy with their elementary school (as are many other families at excellent neighborhood schools), I think it will be really interesting to see who would choose BASIS elementary. DCPS has so many good elementary options, that people can walk to and that connect them to their neighbors, and so few excellent middle schools, so it's just an entirely different choice.[/quote]

High SES parents EOTP with an intense need to see their kids succeed at any cost will totally choose Basis.  Many of us have very poorly performing elementary schools.  We don't really have a charter school that scratches that itch right now.

And the thing about who has the money to go private is often about which kids have grandparents who will fund it.  Lots of us in the DC are have family money and parents who valued education enough to make sure that we got lots of it.  Those same parents who are now grandparents are often frugal and happy to help with grandkids' schooling.  Like my family, for example.  From looking at our neighborhood and house you would assume that we don't have the money for private, but we bought ages ago and have family money set aside for private so we totally do.  We haven't chosen it but the money is there.

Often times people who are not house poor have more money to send kids private as well.[/quote]

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