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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One more thread confirming why parents flee DCPS  - even the "success stories" like Deal seem to be have lots of detractors.  So glad we left and did not expose our DC to such an uneven system.  [/quote]

So why are you even posting in this forum.  To lord it over the rest of us that you have so much money, time, whatever so that the rest of feel bad?  Glad you feel better.  Lucky you.  Pat on the Back.  Good Job.  Hows that feeling?[/quote]

It is a legitimate issue to raise (the number of detractors)  - too many people have strong feelings in a lot of school communities.  DCPS isn't for everyone.  But I think the inability of people like PP to suffer through all the ingrates and jerks serves to thin the heard and get rid of those who only like it nice-nice.  If you must have it nice-nice then I'll go have brunch on Sunday at your house, and I love your huge yard and the collegial neighbors you chit-chat with, but at the end of the day I want to sleep on a lettered or numbered street in a city.  It's just the way I like it.  I like people who want to swim upstream.  I can't stand namby-pamby liberals and up-tight judgmental conservatives.  I like the self-selecting crowd at some DCPS schools.  I like their moxie when they respond to people judging their decision to enroll in DCPS.  I like how DCPS parents mix it up with black dude dads and nerdy white moms all the same.  I like old school DC residents, I like the international crowd, I like bi-racial families, I like gay fathers and lesbian moms.  I like ghetto and I like big law.  I like the transplants and transients.  I like a whole grain bread, not Wonder Bread.  And I understand that in a city recovering from dysfunction, with this crazy good mix of people, that it ain't always easy.  I got a low EQ and I kind of fumble through it all.

When the PP grouses about detractors, he's right.  There are a ton of detractors , and they totally suck.  But I don't care, at least right now.  There's enough cool dudes to make it worth while.  And my kids are doing okay so far.  Unless you would like to make a blanket assertion that I am failing them for being in DCPS, in which case I'll just say your right, I am screwing my kid, now please go away.  Not because you are hurting my feelings ( I am the smartest guy in the room after all), but because I just don't care.[/quote]

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