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Can I ask about this? I know that there are a couple of microneighborhoods with middle class people like Hillcrest. A couple of gentrifying areas around like Anacostia. A military bases at JBAB. [b]But isn’t EOTR otherwise almost strictly multigenerational poor and 99.9% black?[/b] Like there aren’t these UMC families you are talking about. Except as unicorn one-offs. It’s not like in Wards 1/4/5.

So for schools - there aren’t UMC kids to be served there. It’s about serving the intergenerational black poor. I see charters as something these people choose because they see DCPS as having failed. Successful or not but the motivation for charters EOTR isn’t to give suburban experiences to UMC families used to great success who just happen to have settled in the ghetto. It’s for the children of longstanding residents.  [/quote]

As a proud Ward 7 resident, its comments like these that spread misinformation. Assuming you live in the District, you should have a general idea of the makeup of the city not a generalization or stereotype. Let me be clear, it’s not the responsibility of Ward 7 and 8 residents to educate others on the city you live in. But we’re going to dispel generalizations. Learn more about Ward 7 demographics here: https://www.dchealthmatters.org/?module=demographicdata&controller=index&action=index&id=131494&sectionId= 
Learn more about Ward 8 here: https://www.dchealthmatters.org/?module=demographicdata&controller=index&action=index&id=131495&sectionId=

As for my family, we chose to move to one of the best kept secret neighborhoods, Hillcrest (IYKYK). We moved from Bloomingdale to Hillcrest to have a better quality of life - less congestion, yard for our family, and a real sense of community. We knew moving EOTR schools may be challenging but as an UMC family we have the resources to supplement. However, I will say our experience at our in boundary elementary has been nothing short of amazing. With that said, there will come a time when we’ll need to transition to another school to meet educational requirements that our household established. Unfortunately, that will likely mean traveling across the city for our children’s education, which we’ll do. Until there is balanced education and resources this will continue beyond our family. The city likes to take the “build it and they will come” approach but unfortunately they do not share the same approach for education. [/quote]

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