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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Your friends will leave over time.  You can leave now or later.  Better to leave now and keep the friends you both make during the early kid years .  People leave when eldest kid hits K, more leave at 3rd, again at 4th and again at 5th.  The friends who stay in your up and coming hood try for private at those same points.  Many of them leave when they start facing tuition for a second or third kid.  How do I know this?  It describes us and every 5th house in our and the other suburban neighborhoods with both a) strong schools and b) ok commutes to jobs in DC.  Even if you get a desired charter or your in bound school becomes great, the great outward migration of families doesn't change.
Yes, for dome coiples they get all this at birth of first child and they push the reset button right away.  Others leave later after sheepisly calling the esrlier actors.  Been here decades, pattern doesn't change.[/quote]

So then how do you explain the changes at Deal, Brent, Ross, etc? Do you really believe that things now are the same as they were "decades" ago when DC was murder capital of the US and houses on Capitol Hill could be purchased for today's Detroit prices?

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OP didn't buy IB for Deal, which has been strong and an outlier for decades, or for Ross or Brent. And even there people leave at 4th or 5th although sometimes to charters not the city.

But in general PP is right. Outside of a few enclaves the number of students who entered PK3 or even K in the city who graduate from a DC public high school is below 50%.[/quote]

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