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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What is wrong with some of you people.  This was an article written as letters from a father to his daughter, NOT a doctoral thesis on educational options in DC. sheesh!  :roll:[/quote]

It resonated with me. [/quote]

This.  [b]We've been researching schools for DS and the choices really make us feel sick.  Far too many mediocre choices, desperate salespeople, smug incumbents,[/b] and the few schools that seem promising to us for less than $25k a year are [b]unattainably competitive[/b].

You people are total twits for wasting energy trying to figure out what schools he was clearly trying not to reference.  It doesn't matter, as your comments reveal they are clearly interchangeable.  I guess it's true that DC really has little appreciation for art / creativity.[/quote]

I guess the larger question I have is, did people really not know this before either moving to DC with kids or having kids in DC?  I do understand that before you have a kid, these things are not as "real" or important and most people do not pay as close attention.  But some of the comments and this guy's blog make it sound like people saw some DC Office of Tourism ad on t.v. that said "Come to DC!  Our schools are awesome and free and your kid will definitely get in!" and then that didn't happen.

I had heard nothing but how awful DC public schools are, then I heard/saw that there were a few new promising schools in the pipeline, then all I heard was both how awful DC public schools still were but how everyone wanted in to like 3 special schools... it feels like it's been an evolving story but a very public one for so long.

[b]So where is what comes across as suprise at all this coming from?[[/b]/quote]

ITA.  Even before moving here prekids, I've always heard DCPS is the worst or second to worst (Detroit being #1) urban school system in the whole country.  Knew moving here that DCPS was never a possibility at all:  It was a pleasant surprise that DC actually has public schools and charters that any highly educated parents would have no qualms about sending their kids to.  All bonus and gravy that private school was NOT a must.[/quote]

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