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[quote=Anonymous]A few things:

- If you live north of Capitol Hill, I can assure you that driving to Pentagon City during rush hour will suck. It will take you over an hour, likely almost 2 hours (each way) at rush hour. If you need to drive in to work one day, you will want to leave early or late to avoid the worst traffic.

- If you plan on skipping DC schools for the 16-17 year, renting somewhere with a well regarded inbound and doing the lottery next year makes sense. What you need to do now is search for rentals in your price range. It will be hard to find a two bedroom apartment in bounds for one of the highly regarded DCPS near the yellow or blue line for under $2500, but maybe you can find something in bounds for one of the hill schools. I think you'd have to pay more than $2500 for a two bedroom in bounds for Thomson, Hyde-Addison, Key, etc.

- IMO (others may disagree), although many DCPS tout their specialized programs and curricula, the program at each school is pretty much the same. (With the one exception being bilingual/immersion programs.) The big differences in the schools come from their location/student demographic. So while Raymond may have some arts program that sounds good on paper, I suspect your daily experience there will have more in common with schools that share its demographics but lack that arts program than with, say, some DCPS WOTP that has that arts program but draws a much higher income group of kids. (If others on this board disagree, I'd like to hear your opinions though . . . maybe my biases are speaking here.)[/quote]

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