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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Not at all. Eastern is obviously a dead end for almost all the Hill UMC families. But if you're shut out of BASIS and the Latins, or don't like them, as a middle-class Hill family, you can make do for MS and HS. You might swing Walls, Banneker, McKinley or parochial schools charging in the 20s like DeMatha or Gonzaga for a boy or SJC, Bishop Ireton or Bishop O'Connell if you're OK w/parochial schools. After much research, we wouldn't go for Deal or J-R anyway. Plenty of reasons to stay on CH with teens.[/quote]

I don’t understand why you would spend 100k on a high school education (per kid) in order to avoid just moving somewhere with better schools. Especially since parochial really will not work for every family or every kid.[/quote]

The cost of moving -- especially if you'd plan to move back post-HS -- can be WAY more than 100k.[/quote]

Why do you have to move back?

This thread is bananas. Capitol Hill is a neighborhood. It has some advantages and some drawbacks. But it’s just a place. I do not understand the jumping through a dozen hoops to maintain residence in a place that clearly does not meet your family’s actual needs. Why? So you can walk to the H Street Whole Foods? Because the renegade dog park at Lincoln Park is so amazing? Because the mediocre food at Tunnicliff’s holds a special place in your heart?

I don’t get it.

- 15 year CH resident[/quote]

Show me an equivalent neighborhood I can afford? Yes the schools are the biggest issue but there are a lot of reasons to stay here as long as we can make schools work. [/quote]

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