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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A mega-elementary school is a ridiculous idea.[/quote]

The other alternatives are build 1100+ new seats WOTP (at around $100K/seat) or send 1100+ kids EOTP for elementary school. Or maybe lose those kids to privates and Bethesda. [/quote]

If you send my kid on an hour commute to MS or HS, you will lose us to private or MD.  If we wanted long commutes, we would live in the subury.

More importantly, you would not find an educator in the country who would say that a mega elementary school would be good for the kids.

So, fine, build more schools.  Why not?  It’s beside the point that there is capacity on the other side of town if they haven’t managed development accordingly.[/quote]

It's not an hour commute from Mt. Pleasant to MacFarland or Shepherd Park to Wells. 
Also, if you go to private, we'll still have your taxes and not have to educate your kids. If you go to MD, we'll get the transfer tax when you sell your house and someone else (who will earn plenty of money and pay plenty of taxes) will replace you. DC, and DCPS, don't really care if you stay or not. [/quote]

From my home — and from much of upper NW to Mt. Pleasant is 15-20 minutes by car, probably 40 minutes minimum by public transportation.  What high school woth so much free space are you envisioning sending the Wilson kids to?  The space is mostly in East of the River, I believe.

Meanwhile, we don’t own my home, we rent, mainly to have flexibility for schools when faced with the uncertainty of DC schools.  We moved once to be near our preschool and once to get the ES right.  We can move again, and you will get no transfer tax.

Finally, There are lots of people like me.  And when we all move, [b]who is going to buy our homes and rent our apartments[/b] when their kids will then go to a poorly-conceived elementary school and MS and HS far outside the neighborhood?  Real estate values — and property taxes — will plummet.[/quote]

Young professionals without kids. The largest, wealthiest and fastest growing demographic in the city.

Truth is families with children use the most city services (schools, summer camps, rec centers and fields, free transit, tax deductions). We are just not the most desired residents from a city planner's perspective -- my family's $150K in income is taxed at a lower rate than the single person across the street. They also eat out more and don't use schools etc.

As for holding property values, my Ward 4 home has appreciated 100% in the 10 years since we bought it. And our IB DCPS schools are 1- and 2- STARs. But we are near a Metro, which is more important. [/quote]

Young professionals without kids are not buying the zillions of 4 bedroom Colonial SFHs with a yard in Upper NW.[/quote]

This is the core of the problem: much of the family friendly housing in the city is in Ward 3.  That does a lot to make Deal huge.

Upper NW needs to upzone.

But DC shouldn’t want to be a city of transient millennials.  If they want people to put down roots and be proud of the city and their communities, they should want families to stay and raise kids here.  That means both supporting family sized housing and supporting good schools.[/quote]

Most of DC is suburban-type neighborhoods. I was just thinking yesterday while walking around how different DC is from most east-coast cities, in that the urban part of it is really very small. [/quote]

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