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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]OP, we live in Bloomingdale and toured both schools.  We know people in each PK3 classroom at Langley who endorsed their teacher, and do not know people at Garrison, so that was one reason.  Ultimately we decided that while Garrison may be slighly different in various ways, it was not significantly better in any way that justified the commute.  It would have been great to be at Langley with several friends and share pickup and half day duties.  Also it's much easier to be an involved parent if the school is close by.  Ultimately we matched elsewhere, so my research was for naught.  Hope it helps you.[/quote]

Thank you - very helpful. May I ask if you matched at another DCPS or HRC? If DCPS is there a specific reason you chose it over your neighborhood school?

Thank you.[/quote]

We matched at Mundo, so... Really, other than Seaton, no neighborhood school that we could get into OOB, was worth the logistical problems it would have created.

I would have happily enrolled in Langley or Seaton (Seaton being so close to the G8 and Shaw metro), and I am 100% certain that Langley, Seaton, Garrison, and Cleveland have the potential to be much better than they are today, and to be true neighborhood schools that most people are happy to attend.  It is an uphill battle and DCPS itself is both friend and foe, but it is obvious to me after living here for a while that progress is happening.  If Bloomingdale/Eckington came together and demanded better for its school like other neighborhoods do every year, it would work.[/quote]

Bloomingdale gentrified so quickly, there's no neighborhood force for the schools (No, the Bloomingdale Kids listserv doesn't count.  Just ask the Moms on the Hill).  It's the new Dupont Circle: singles, couples (gay or straight, but without children), and legacy families without children competing for schools.  Who buys a 1500 sq. ft. newly renovated condo in Bloomingdale for $700K expecting to raise a family in that space and invest in the schools?  Pre-school?  Okay, but long-term?  Not a chance.[/quote]

Is 20 plus years "so quick"?[/quote]

It's true that it was too quick.  Neighborhoods like Brookland are gentrifying, but they're gentrifying with families into houses and neighborhoods.  The same can be said of parts of the Hill moving north and east.  The part of Shaw/Bloomingdale/LeDroit that has gentrified has done so in way that's very urban - there are no schools and parks, but lots of restaurants and bars and access to metro.  It's not a part of the city that lends itself to families settling in and building schools.[/quote]

Right.  You know just what you are talking about obviously, and my nearly 20 years in Bloomingdale means nothing.  Bloomingdale has been "gentrifying" since the 1990s.[/quote]

Bullsh*t.  [url=http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/news/article/13022741/the-florida-mile][u][b]This was written in 2001[/b][/u][/url] and describes Shaw and Bloomingdale and LeDroit Park and every other decayed neighborhood on Florida Ave.   So yes, your nearly 20 years mean nothing.

Those neighborhoods were a cesspit.  Don't lie and say they've been gentrifying for 20 years.  They've been gentrifying since when the Big Bear Market became the Big Bear Coffeehouse and the Farmer's Market opened on that corner.  That happened in the late 'aughts.  It hasn't even been 10 years.[/quote]

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