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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote] It takes a big dose of privilege to dismiss other parents' desire for traditionally good schools.

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Takes an even bigger one to dismiss every parent who speaks about their positive experience with city schools as someone who "doesn't value education." Seriously, want to talk about privilege? Let's talk about your breathtaking entitlement to a lifestyle with two giant cars, a single family house, driving everywhere, and living in an economically segregated community. You think you have the right to do that because you grew up poor, or something? You think I did not--or, if I did, I just don't "value education?" You think poor people don't value education? Because I suspect your own parents might take some offense at that. [/quote]

Holy cow you are defensive.  OP states that education is her "only priority." I reply that probably DC schools are not a good fit because they are for people who value other things or feel comfortable compromising. Where do you make the leap that I'm saying no DC parents value education? I never said that. All I said was that people who ONLY value education probably won't find what they are looking for. PS there is a lot more to the suburbs than giant cars and houses. Ever have a conversation with a hard working taxi driver from Ethiopia or Ghana? Where do you thinl they are living and sending their kids to school? Generally, not DCPS. [/quote]

NeW poster her but I get kind of defensive about that comment too. I sincerely think the upper NW ES and JH are some of the best schools in the region, and just today there are like 4 different threads where people can't seem to get their heads around the fact that schools were my actual and real motivation for choosing my DC neighborhood. And here you are basically doing it again. I prioritize education first and I still chose DC. Others can disagree, but the essential disbelief that I mean what I say is getting kind of old.[/quote]

Have your kids gone through Deal and Wilson yet?[/quote]

No, though I think very highly of Deal, and am not at all hesitant to send my children there. I haven't decided what we'll do for HS yet, and we focused on ES and junior high in deciding where to buy. I understand a least one poster thinks it is incoherent for me to say that our first priority was education and then not consider high schools at the time of purchase (when neither of our children were born yet). I disagree, but that's been debated endlessly in the Bethesda v. CCDC threat, so I won't rehash it here.[/quote]

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