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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Disagree all you like. I can afford privates post ES for my two children, but would much rather send them to strong public middle and high schools here in Ward 6 (having gone to public schools myself all the way through). Yes, it's all too easy to be brave when your kids are little and, in all likelihood, you don't really have your head around how weak most DCPS middle and high schools are.  I used to teach in DCPS so no rose colored glasses on my part.

No sure what a "gentrified school" means. But it it's one with strong facilities and a good spirit, where my good students are safe, happy, and appropriately challenged in most subjects and can participate in worthwhile extra curriculars, where most of their classmates live in the catchment area, great, bring it on.  It doesn't look to me like we have a chance in hell of such a by-right middle or high school materializing locally in under two decades, so I'm planning accordingly to avoid moving. You can do the brave advocating. Good luck.

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I don't really care where you go with your kid. My problem is with people who complain and then advance ridiculous and spoiled demands here about how DCPS must serve them. Guess what, that's now how institutions change. It is frustrating because there *is* a way to make a middle school happen but it takes collective action and yes, the ability to care just a bit about others.

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