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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]For 95% of people the lottery works out.

[b]We live in a neighborhood that the OP would undoubtedly consider undesirable.[/b]  We moved there before I was pregnant.  We thought we would move before our kids were school aged.

I now have 3 kids OOB at one of the best EOP elementary schools in the city.  My kids litterally run into the school like they were going to Disney World every day.  Our house payment is slightly less than $1600 a month.  We live 2 blocks from a metro station.  Our house has doubled in value.  Our commutes are very reasonable.

The middle school lottery craziness looms ahead, but if we strike out we can move to Takoma Park or whereever.   I kind of think on the lottery stuff that you just have to fight letting it get to you, and getting obsessed with it.  Go to a couple open houses.  See where the chips fall.

I really don't think that NWDC was the safest bet for you OP.  If I was going to be totally Ms. safe choice, I'd have gone with Arlington or Bethesda near a metro.  [/quote]

That's the key isn't it.  OP probably considers a majority of the neighborhoods in DC undesirable - except maybe in her perfect Ward 3 world.[/quote]

Right, but it's so desirable to you that you want to send your kids to school anywhere but there (dare I even say her precious ward 3).  Give me a break!  [/quote]

Nope, wouldn't even send my kids to Ward 3 schools.  No immersion programs that is acceptable to me in DCPS.  My kid goes to charter school.  My child is bilingual and will most likely be trilingual by the time she graduates.  I'm sure your kids will enjoy working for her.[/quote]
You say your kid will be trilingual like it's a big deal.  My kids all spoke three languages fluently before they entered K, with no formal schooling, just because mommy and daddy do.  They may or may not pick up language #4 by the time they graduate, we don't care. Paying for language education is so ...American.[/quote]

Not pp, but in the same position.  What an odd comment.  That is nice that your kids are trilingual becuase you are.  Do you know tht other people are not all exactly like you?  And, you don't pay for charter schools.[/quote]

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