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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why do you keep your kids in a school district like this? Is your row house & walking commute really worth it?[/quote]

- Kid can walk to school rather than being ferried around in an SUV everywhere.
- Kid has friends they've known since PK3
- Tight-knit community outside of school.
[b]- Bullying in middle school is universal.[/b]
- If my kid is killed or seriously injured, it's going to be in a car in the suburbs.
[b]- (Ironically) Don't have to worry about mass school shootings.[/b]

We've always planned to leave when it stops working; fortunately for our family, it hasn't stopped working yet.

Oh, and the walking commute is a nice perk.

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As to your first bolder point, bullying may be universal, but ongoing violence is most definitely NOT.

Your second bolded point is just delusional. [/quote]

I experienced ongoing violence at my 100% white suburban middle and high schools in the midwest.

My high school kid has never experienced bullying in WOTP DCPS.  It's really move of a school by school thing, very much influenced by how seriously the admin takes bullying.[/quote]

This.  I have a kid who is vulnerable to bullying (already experiencing those dynamics in elementary) and I am ultimately much more concerned about the school admin than the racial/economic makeup of the school.  I am also concerned about the quality of instruction and whether there is a cohort of nerdy kids for my kid to be friends with, but I really have no clue where we will find that.  It's entirely possible he'll feel more at home at a school like Eliot-Hine with kids of families that are not obsessed with outward appearances.  [/quote]

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