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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^ Not hard to fathom when well-educated parents who want to live in the city and can't afford privates are such a small slice of the electoral pie.

The reason the Hill gentrifiers aren't getting SWS as a neighborhood school, or one first-rate Hill middle school program, and are getting the idiot Cobbs woman at Ludlow-Taylor year after year, is that they can't swing any election beyond that for an ANC commissioner.

High-SES parents are just not very important to city politicians, even within Ward 6.  Realtors will tell you that only around one-quarter of those buying rowhouses on the Hill care about schools, at least at the time they buy.  This helps explain why real estate is hot in the Payne, L-T, Miner and JO Wilson Districts, although all these schools are essentially failing Anacostia schools on the Hill.

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So the city doesn't care about young gentrifiers?  That's hard to believe.

I suspect it's more that DCPS knows that young middle class families are willing to jump though hoops to stay in DC while getting a good education for their kids,   so it gives DCPS an advantage.[/quote]

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