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[quote=Anonymous]OP, I hope you realize that these people posting 1) are trolls or 2) have never set foot in the neighborhoods you are considering or 3) both.

There are thousands of wonderful families who live EOTP, love where they live, and are figuring out schools just fine.

On the other hand: You are mostly right about school performance correlating strongly to HHI and parental education achievement, but that doesn't mean you can expect to throw your kid into any low-performing school and expect she'll be OK. You say you are familiar with troubled urban school districts. and I believe you, but when it's your kid who loses lots of instructional time because some of her classmates are extremely troubled, or who comes home stressed and worried because of what she witnesses in school, I don't think you'll just accept that she will be fine in the end because you read to her and earn an upper-middle-class income.

You are right that there are many schools in DC that are very underrated where your kid would probably get a good education (see: 20-page thread on Ludlow-Taylor). And good for you for not counting them out. But there are definitely seriously troubled schools in DCPS, and you can't blithely assume that your kid would be immune to their troubles just because she has a good home life.

I think that is what all those rabid posters were getting at.[/quote]

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