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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is sad to see how DCPS' refusal to create a rigorous MS/HS path on CH (plus the increased crime) is sending CH backwards.  When I moved there in the mid-90s, no one with kids would stay there once the kids were born.  My neighbors all moved to Arlington.  Then slowly over the last 25 years families stayed and invested in the neighborhood elementaries, and then played the charter lottery for MS/HS but since that is nowhere near a sure thing---[b]now there's a return to the flight to suburbia.  [/quote][/b]

Not sure where you're coming from on this. We've been on the Hill for more than 25 years. Most of the families of older kids and teens around our block, families we've known for more than a decade, now stay for middle and high school.  For HS, kids go to Latin, BASIS, Banneker, Walls or maybe a Catholic school like DeMatha, SJC (co-ed), Gonzaga, St. Anselm's or Bishop O'Connell or Ireton in VA.  Many of these kids have gone on to great colleges.  When we bought our house almost 20 years ago, most high SES families of older kids were still leaving.  Catholics were more likely to stay past ES than others for parochial schools, particularly families with boys.  Yes, there's been an uptick in crime lately, but it's a post Covid issue that seems likely to subside eventually.  For those of us who arrived in the last century, crime doesn't seem nearly as bad as it was 20 or 25 years ago. We work in Arlington but have zero desire to leave the 5-bedroom house we bought for less than 600K for the burbs, or our terrific church and BSA and GS scouting communities either.[/quote]

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