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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]In general, affluent families don't depend on the lottery. Working class families do. Skipping the line in the lottery is an affront to everyone who depends on the lottery, which is why it was a political hot button. So I disagree with the premise of the story. [/quote]

Middle class working folks don't get to skip the lottery either.  DC is a hard city for middle class or lower to make ends meet. The current system is killing middle class DC.  [/quote]

DC isn't designed for middle class people with kids.  DC schools are terrible except for ward 3 which is the most expensive ward in the city.

Most people in DC don't have kids which is the real reason education doesn't get as much traction from council
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DC hada middle class community for many generations!  There are a number of Historical African American middle class and white middle class neighborhoods. Not to say all those middle class were college educated some are/were lots where government, union, teachers etc. We live in a middle class African American neighborhood.   The schools were once excellent even though predominantly segregated.  The 80s and 90s definitely damazed the schools as many people with kids decided to move out of the city then. While the grandparents stayed in the old neighborhood.  Today things are shifting back with some midde class families staying or keeping family homes.  But please don't say there is no middle class DC. There has always been.  [/quote]

You must be in Brookland? If not, curious where else is like this.

Our local school (Bunker Hill) apparently used to be a top performer. It was gutted, I'm not sure exactly when but probably for the reasons you mention. [/quote]

No, we are not in Brookland. There are more of middle class neighborhoods in NE than Brookland.  Of course Brookland has already become too prices for most middle class families that wish to buy a home now.  Sadly is quickly becoming the case in surrounding NE middle class neighborhoods as well. The Amenities like groceries, small shopping, new library's, resturants, etc brought in by big the developer is long over due. But it is hard for long time hard working residents to process at times. Years and years of red lining with very little investment, development or support and managed to stay fairly nice and safe for a long time.  Now developmers finally see it as a community worth spending money in which isn't a bad thing but there is a bit of bitterness that it has taken so long. And now the same middle class families that kept a lot of the area nice can't afford to stay or have their middle class kids and grandkids buy homes in the neighborhood.  It is sad.[/quote]

Honestly, expecting your children and grandchildren to buy homes in your exact neighborhood sounds like something that happens in small towns not a major metropolis.  [/quote]

Not necessarily. The median distance Americans live from their mothers is 18 miles. And lower income, less educated people tend to live closer. https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/12/24/upshot/24up-family.html

From the linked article: "Over all, the median distance Americans live from their mother is 18 miles,  and only 20 percent live more than a couple of hours’ drive from their parents. (Researchers often study the distance from mothers because they are more likely to be caregivers and to live longer than men.)

"To some extent, people’s proximity to their parents is a reflection of opportunity: The biggest determinants of how far people venture from home are education and income. Those with college and professional degrees are much more likely to live farther from their parents than those with a high school education, in part because they have more job opportunities in big cities, and especially if spouses are juggling the career aspirations of two professionals.

"Wealthier people can afford to pay for services like child and elder care, while low-income families are more likely to rely on nearby relatives. It seems likely that the more education someone has, the farther from home they go, said Robert A. Pollak, an economist at Washington University’s Olin Business School in St. Louis, who studies the economics of family. Middle-class, educated two-income couples — say, a schoolteacher and a nurse — seem to be more likely to live near parents 
than those with higher-earning careers.

“It speaks to a class divide in the population,” Mr. Pollak said. “Particularly as you go further down the socioeconomic scale, people are living pretty close to their parents, and this means they’re able to provide help.” "
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