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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is the OP here. People are welcome to say good riddance to us, PP - but if I don't have the school I want for our kids, and can afford to move, why on earth would I stay? Childfree people will then move to our house and be happy enough there and everything will balance itself out. I like walking everywhere and being close to work, but not enough to send any of my children to a school I don't care for.

To the PP who mentioned geographical component - I saw that but the problem is we live on the Hill where our inbound school is good (Brent) but any of the other neighboring ones, not so much, so any school choice that has a decent chance of landing my DD at e.g. Tyler Traditional (or sending half of Tyler Traditional students to Brent) is not really great.  [/quote]

If this comes about, they will try and lure you to stay with promises of great programs and shiny new stuff.  The inequality at this point is so great in our school system ( for example between the education one receives at Brent, and the one at Tyler Traditional ) that those is charge are willing to gamble that you really want to stay and will give up some certainty to do so. [/quote]

OP here. Well, I can't speak for other parents, of course, but they would be gambling wrong as far as it comes to me. I like certainty that my children would get to go to a good school more than I do my admittedly lovely townhouse and short commute. (Would a lot of people really stay? It's one thing to stay and work hard to improve a struggling school when you know the same children will be there every year for years and/or it will be your kid's friends going there and the parents working together to make things better, and another to do it when due to the controlled choice everyone is scattered and there is no continuity year to year or between children). I suppose if they did controlled choice and all the schools involved were awesome, I'd consider staying, but that is obviously not the case.

I suppose I am particularly OK with moving because I thought we'd have to move out for middle school anyway, so this is just accelerating the process.[/quote]

I agree with everything you wrote, OP. We'd leave as well. I don't like uncertainty and I definitely won't gamble with our kids' education. I value community very much. School certainty and community are non-negotiable for our family. We can easily find it across either border with our friends who left years ago if DC tries to take away our neighborhood school.

Seems to me like the school situation will return to what it was like in the 90s if other families feel like we do.[/quote]

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