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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No, I can't move.  My housing costs are $1200 a month for a family of 4.  Tell me where in the city I could get somewhere to live for that price and a good school?  I have lived here since long before I had children so it was not a consideration when I saw single.

People who throw around "can't you move" have no understanding of the reality of normal people who don't have incomes into six figures.[/quote]

OP, there are affordable set aside apartments in buildings in desirable neighborhoods.  You have to do your research to find which ones have available units.  My niece, who is working and in grad school, got one on Connecticut Ave. near Murch and Deal.  She doesn't have kids so school is irrelevant to her now.  So, yes, you can actually move if you research and plan.  You need to change the negative thinking and get past your frustration.  [/quote]

Thanks.  I really can't reiterate more that moving is NOT an option.  There are other considerations that I don't wan to go to here but it simply will not work.  Even if it was a possibility I doubt my marriage would do well in a one bed apartment for the four of us and my kids having both parents happy and together is more important than the school they go to.  [/quote]

OP, I'm the poster way, way up thread who commiserated at the options for families in DC. I was not suggesting that you move. I haven't moved. I pay an ungodly amount of rent to live in the area that works best for our family. The only ways that it doesn't work is that the IB school isn't stellar and the housing costs are high. I am not moving because school is not the only thing I care about. There are other areas of our lives that are also important.

I will say that you do sound very resentful and annoyed. Your friends have every right to make their own deliberations about what works best for their family. Everyone absolutely loves Mundo Verde (on this board and every playground conversation I've had that involves school), but if we got in, we would have to really think about how that would actually work for our family. The commute would be bad news for us and I'm not sure that Spanish immersion is so important to me that I would want to completely wreck the rest of our routine to facilitate it. If you have family reasons that moving to Silver Spring isn't an option, please allow that your friend probably has reasons that keeping her kid in private preschool might be better for their family.

You came here to bitch, and I get that and it's valid. People are going to try to give you solutions to your problem. Those solutions are predictable (move, IB, less desirable OOB schools). There are schools that will move through significant parts of their waitlists, and whether people want to admit it or not, it's also possible to get off the waitlist when it's not your turn yet by calling at the right time. This almost happened to us last year at Bancroft, and I know that we were far enough down the list that we should not have been even pre-offered a spot. Either way, quit being defensive when people suggest things that are obvious. You have a right to be annoyed that you're not as lucky as your friends. Your friends have a right to do their own math regarding their school choice. If you don't want to talk to them about it, you can just avoid them. They'll probably figure out why pretty fast and in a few months, none of this will be as present in your mind anyway.[/quote]

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