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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Property values will remain just fine in the Brent District even with no viable MS feed.  If anything, they will continue to rise as development progresses south of the Freeway (e.g., Whole Foods, etc.)  i haven't seen any suppression of prices of homes IB for schools like LT at which high-SES families have eschewed except for PK.  I mean, seriously, take a look at prices for homes IB for Tyler or Payne.  Location, location, location.[/quote]

That's hilarious. Are you aware that a Whole Foods is going to open 2 blocks north of LT? You know, right down the street from the new Giant. And the other new massive mixed use. And have you looked at the IB numbers for LT for 1st? or 2nd? Brent is a great school and a great neighborhood. But are you aware there are other neighborhoods that are on an upswing? I do agree that the real estate will always be available...all those Brent families need to sell after 5th grade! [/quote]

??? No Brent parent will ever need to sell. [b]Brent is the feeder for Latin and Basis.[/b] Brent will take all of the seats thru sibling preference. It's the other Hill schools who have to worry about the lack of MS option.[/quote]

I just checked the myschooldc website and you should call them. It doesn't list "Brent Families" under Lottery preferences. Neither does Latin! Just sibling. So that means that the people who have kids there won't have to sell, but your neighbors are calling realtors as I type. Unless sibling has a different meaning IB for Brent. Does it? Please illuminate the meaning in that rarified air.

You're making my argument for me. As a Brent booster/apologist the best defense for the atrocious feeder situation is...families that already have kids in a charter won't be harmed. I guess their's no "I" in Brent. I wouldn't know because neither my kids nor I were educated at Brent. [/quote]

How long have you lived here? You seem out of touch. No, Brent is not a literal feeder to Latin or Basis. No, Brent families are not calling their realtors, unless it is to make a mint off of their million dollar houses.

I get that Capitol Hill is expensive all over, and I can understand why you might have a Brent chip on your shoulder if you bought an expensive house in bounds for a school like Ludlow-Taylor without realizing that all schools on the Hill are not yet on equal footing. [/quote]

When I moved to the hill Brent wasn't even a option. I agree perspective is important. But you're like many of the people who are new to the hill (I.e. after 1988) you don't have any. Things change here...quickly. You show your ignorance by expressing in public that Brent has long been the school it is now. Or that your perspective of other hill schools is valid forever. But the newbie gentrifiers are ever so cute. [/quote]

Who said anything about the length of time Brent has been the top school? We are talking about the present. Check back in a decade about L-T and Wilson,  as has been said before. What's crazy is thinking that Brent will decline when other schools improve. [/quote]

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