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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If it helps, we're in Petworth and everyone we know that's left has gone to MoCo. Mostly Takoma Park/Silver Spring, some to Bethesda. You'd be in good company if you ended up there![/quote]

Also in Petworth, my kids lucked into a J-R feeder and we are also probably suburb bound because the schools just aren't good enough to justify the cost of moving in bounds.  [/quote]

Why move in-bounds if you lotteried into a feeder? Isn't that the entire point of the lottery? And I'm not saying J-R is perfect, but it's certainly not any worse than Takoma Park and Silver Spring schools. Sounds like OP isn't considering Bethesda or McLean, so apples to apples, her "upper NW" and MCPS options (Blair, Einstein) are going to be very similar.[/quote]

Because the commute is extremely disruptive for marginal educational benefit (in our case).[/quote]

Where are you looking to move though? I'm assuming not Takoma Park if you're looking for more than a marginal benefit in the move...[/quote]

OP here, not the person you're replying to. But my main motivation to move is safety. I don't feel safe and my kids are not getting the freedom I want them to have as a result. I don't need it to be like a gated community, but DC has been awful with shootings lately, increasingly during the daytime. TP is surely an improvement? [/quote]

We live in TP and the kids around walk to school. Our 9 yo girl walks to school with her friends and all the neighbors do to. Not sure if we are oblivious as i know a lot of people on this board talk about crime in this area but it seems very safe to us[/quote]

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