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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I live in the area and think that the problem with most of the schools, including Tubman, is that people will stay in the early years and bail when they can. We are looking to move. (Struck out in the lottery this year.)[/quote]

THIS.  There are less than a dozen DCPS schools that parents love, and only one of them is EotP (Brent).  Every other DCPS is a "work in progress" and parents will absolutely lie and say they're "all in!" right up until they tell you that they are:

A) just accepted to one of the great charters
B) just got lucky in the OOB lottery
C) have decided to move to FFX or MoCo

DCPS boosters will howl in protest, but its true.  Nobody who cares about education wants their child in one of "those" schools by the time they hit the testing grades.  It would only affirm that you made a terrible parenting decision that is starkly compromising your child's future.  [/quote]

You know, [b]there are a lot of people who send their kids to schools that are not popular on this board (read: not WotP) who do actually care about education. [/b]They just don't post here. Be more of a snob, please. We certainly haven't heard enough about how wonderful it is WotP.

- parent of student at EotP elementary school, all in at that school until grade 5[/quote]

I agree.  I do know families that are choosing to stay in schools like Bancroft, Marie Reed, West and Shepherd.  If families do leave, because they value something like Montessori expeditionary learning that the IB DCPS doesn't offer.  And people don't say much about diversity on this forum because they equate it with low-quality, but we like charters because we place high value on diversity and charters do it well.  I actually get a little nervous at the idea of sending my kid to nearly homogenous schools WOTP.  Even suburban schools have more of a mix than JKLM.  Hearst looks great for diversity, but even if we lived IB (and it's something we've considered)[b] I'm not comfortable with the stigma placed on OOB kids.[/b]

To the OP, I'll say that everything with schools is in flux and changing rapidly.  There's a noticable boom of families in the EOTP areas you talk about, and access to both charters and WOTP schools is diminishing - so it stands to reason that many are going to stay and make their schools work.  That's how Brent rose and it will definitely happen in other places.

Our home in Petworth has doubled in value in the last 3 years.  With new retail and restaurants coming in all the time, I can only see it going up.  There's no downside to buying where you want to be right now and then see where things stand in a few years.  You can and probably will resell for an upgrade if that's what you want.[/quote]

Hi there: the PP mentioned "stigma placed on OOB kids" and Hearst in the same sentence. I'm a current Hearst parent and I don't see any kind of stigma being placed on anyone at Hearst.  It's a terrific community![/quote]

That would be quite an interesting stigma considering 80% of the kids are OOB.[/quote]

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