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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't want a charter/DCPS war.  But I think it's hard to dispute that DC's very high family-age real estate demand means that people are moving in to many neighborhoods regardless of schools in Wards 1, 4, and 5 and elsewhere as well.

If those areas did not have accessible charter schools, the demographics of neighborhood schools would likely already have changed enough to make gentrifiers (not pejorative) comfortable in those schools, and would continue to change up the grades as these families engage with DCPS grade by grade and school by school.

Judge the benefits and downsides of a situation without a "charter safety valve" in a hot real estate market for yourself, but I think it is an accurate indicator of what would have happened but for charter availability.[/quote]

Your logic is faulty. Yes, high SES are moving into areas with sub-optimal schools.  But you're ignoring that one of the reasons that people can and do make that choice is because of school choice (OOB and charter). You can't just assume away that little fact and then conclude that all of those gentrifiers would make a school better. But would they even be there?  For me, the answer would be "no".

I'm a perfect example of why your logic doesn't work. I have lived EOTP for a very long time. Then I had a kid.  Then my house began to feel very small and we knew we'd eventually have to upsize.  When I had a kid about ready to enter PK3 we got very, very lucky and ended up at a HRCS mere blocks from our house. So we bought a new, larger house in the same neighborhood. But because spouse and I both make very good money we had choices. To be blunt, our budget for a new house was @$2 million. We didn't want to spend that much, but that was the budget if we needed to spend it in order to get quality schools. All of JKLM was well within reach (although it sure doesn't buy as much house as it does in Ward 6). If we had not gotten lucky in the lottery we would have purchased IB for JKLM (VA and MD are not in my DNA). Call me a bitch if you want, but I have the means to live where I desire and neither liberal guilt nor any other factor would prevent me from providing what I think is best for my kid. I love my neighborhood. And I think that having high SES people in my neighborhood keeps housing prices up and attracts others, some of which are in fact willing to give the IB school a shot.  And that's great. But don't confuse an apparent tipping point in one small area with the reality across DC. If    [/quote]

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