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[quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]Send all the kids to Roosevelt...the Petworth people just fainted.  Talking about neighborhood fights...blood shed up and down Georgia Avenue, if the Coolidge and Roosevelt student are mixed.  Who are you?[/quote]

This is always what I hear when this subject comes up. But, I really don't understand it. Are these two school populations raised like Arabs and Israelis or something? Are they genetically predisposed to hate each other? I find it hard to believe that two very small groups of children (and in the case of Roosevelt, a group heavily made up of immigrants with no historical attachment to the school) can't get along. I think these problems are more relevant to the adults who probably need to work out their own issues outside of the school environment.

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Agreed that it is ridiculous, but that doesn't mean it should be discounted. Residents of two public housing developments in my neighborhood (not IB for Coolidge or Roosevelt) have been shooting at each other for years.  The shooters are the same age, same race, same quadrant of the city, same sex, zoned for the same schools, and at the same economic level. It is a fluke of history that DCHA placed their families into one housing project versus another. They live literally a quarter mile apart.  And yet they kill each other over this distinction. Another example of this would be the 5th & O vs. 7th & O Street crews.  Dudes, you live TWO BLOCKS from each other; how diametrically opposed can your world views be?

This is not a DC-specific issue though.  cf Hatfields and McCoys, or, fictionally, Montagues and Capulets.[/quote]

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