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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Is anyone keeping MV off their list because of the neighborhood?[/quote]

Yes, the area is full of shootings, drug dealers, social service agencies, homeless people, etc. [b]You don't want to bring your precious snowflake into the ghetto [/b]that's gasp, near poor people who live in housing projects!  Don't apply for your kids' safety![/quote]

My kid is not a snowflake and I do have concerns about the neighborhood. I am ranking it but you can bet that if we get in I will be all over the administration about safety. There are constantly old drunk and drugged men in the alley near the school. [/quote]

What do you think the school should do about the "old drunk" men?  Some of them are in that alley b/c they live around there and not b/c of SOME.  [b]You really belong in the 'burbs or send your kid to private school.[/b]
And besides El Haynes, Bridges has a parole office on the same block and Two Rivers neighborhood isn't all that different from MV....  YY parents have got their cars broken into and a student and their sitter got robbed near the school.

[b]This is a city, an urban environment, learn to deal.[/b][/quote]

I just find this sort of stuff (in bold above) so immature.

yes, this is an urban environnment. Does that excuse rampant gun crime? Do people in San Francisco and Manhattan tolerate it? DC is not a normal urban environment. It was recently the murder capital of the US, and has a much higher % of AA and a much higher % of poor families than the national average.

Every 1-2 weeks there is a fatal shooting near the new MV location. And every time the Truxton boosters go on PoPville to say it is perfectly safe, don't be a sissy. Thankfully we have posters like the PP who do NOT tolerate the crime.

If you bought in Truxton 4 years ago then you are making good money on that - congrats. But don't try to argue that it's "just as safe as the rest of DC". It's still very dangerous.

In response to the question about MV having a lot of Mt Pleasant people, it's not because Mt P people are more likely to get in - it's a lottery as you say. It's because they are more likely to apply and accept a spot when offered, because a lot of people really do value walking distance for ES. Now that MV has moved I predict over time you will see more Bloomingdale families and fewer Mt P. Not everyone is willing to drive across town for ES, especially if they plan to move to the 'burbs for MS and HS anyway, as many still do.

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Wait...when was the last time DC was the murder capital of the  the US?  And what does having a high black population have to do with murders?[/quote]

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