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pay an arm and a leg for real estate[/quote]

The original school choice in America, and still the only option in 95% of the country.[/quote]

And this is why the only thing keeping middle class families in the city EOTP long term is charters if they can’t afford private.  The only thing or else many more families will move.

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That's just not true, especially people who paid quite a bit of money for their homes and love their neighbors and short communtes. look at the momenturm around Garrison/Langley/Seaton now... If the charters didn't exist, there would just be more upper middle class people in those schools and they would become majority rich people even quicker.[/quote]

Sorry, nope.  Without charters as a long-term solution I would not have lived in the neighborhood at all.  Nor would I have been willing to send my kid to Langley and volunteer a lot for several years.  Langley's future is bright but it has a very long way to go before high-SES folks stay past 1st or 2nd.[/quote]

+1. No way would we have stayed in our neighborhood after the toddler years with DC if we had not gotten into a charter.  No way.  Period.

Reality is families going to Langley and those other poor performing schools are there because they struck out in the lottery.  Most make the best of it, try to boost the school but secretly playing the lottery every year to get into charters.  There may be 1 or 2 exception but we all know this is how it goes.[/quote]

Mundo P St cleared its list for K this year, and made a ton of offers for 1st.   People still at Langley are choosing to be there.  [/quote]

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