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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I just saw a post on the MacArthur thread that a student commutes from Anacostia, so I hope your daughter makes friends who also live by you all. It will make the commute better for her!

Let's not mistake that Hillcrest is a beautiful neighborhood!

DCUM is a strange place OP. [/quote]

OP here! Thank you for this! It really is so strange… as a first time resident of DC and while I am familiar with many schools in dc becuase of friends or work affiliates I certainly wasn’t as prepared when I entered the lottery 8 months ago.

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If you had posted for advice to DCUM 8 months ago, we would have helped you figure out something better. Now you’re in a literally impossible situation. The only solution is to switch your DD to Eastern and let her get there on her own and keep other DD in Stokes; or hope your younger DD gets into Stokes East End and you have the time to do both drop offs and work.

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OP here… I applied to multiple schools for each of the children in close proximity to eachother… what better would have been figured out 8 months ago? 
For my 10th grader who is currently waitlisted at Latin and truth… was ineligible for Banneker and Walls. 
My youngest who is waitlisted at GDS, Hyde and several others what would you have suggested differently?

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If you had asked here 8 months ago prior to the lottery *everyone* would have told you it was an astonishingly bad plan to depend on the lottery instead of IB choices. If you had asked prior to buying your home in Hillcrest we would have told you that unless you were willing to send kids IB it was a bad idea.

what we would have told you is, rent IB where you can send both your kids. [/quote]

Got it… just wasn’t willing to spend upwards of 8500 on rent. My kids are accustomed to their own rooms and space and I wasn’t shifting on that. I can afford private transportation and based on some of the feedback I still have a few good options. I’m grateful for the folks who came and put their heads together on what makes sense for where I am now [/quote]

Uber to MacArthur has got to be like $75 bucks/day so there goes an extra $1500/month. Maybe you could get her her drivers license and she drives herself.

also you could have rented a house zone for acceptable schools in Silver Spring or Arlington. But apparently it seems you just wanted to “buy a big house” so here you are. [/quote]

A big house wasn't a requirement, it's that I have multiple children with large age gaps and I was trying to be mindful of that. I have an older daughter with a lot of health concerns and so I needed to think about that as well.

I can't go into a ton of detail but we needed to be in DC for other reasons so that outskirts wasn't an option. We came from a great school district in MD, the 10th grader is actually super excited about driving...  [/quote]

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