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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We were on the Hill with a toddler and moved to the burbs because we didn't want to have to play a lottery to get into reasonable schools.  It was just too much uncertainty with kids draining out of neighborhood schools as early as 4th grade.

We're now in Arlington and our kids walk to elementary school with 98% of their classmates, a situation very similar to what they had on the Hill.  But the difference is that we already know that they can also walk to middle and high school.  No treks across the city.  No uncertainty.  No disruption of friend groups, though still student mixing as elementary and middle schools combine.

I won't say it's perfect, but we just couldn't bring ourselves to commit to a neighborhood where the schools wouldn't commit to us.  (See DC lottery losers who have to move quickly to another house outside the Hill in time for middle school.)[/quote]

My DS is happily situated in HS at Latin...but I sort of wish this is the path we had taken. I feel like we wasted so much time worrying about the uncertainty, etc. [/quote]

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