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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is a lot of angst over school for a two year old! Just shell out your own money for normal preschool like the rest of America.

If the school in his neighborhood is so terrible, why did he move there in the first place? Why can't he move somewhere with better schools? The tone of this piece is so entitled. [/quote]

X 100 !![/quote]

I also thought it was stupid and entitled.  I'm guessing he moved wherever he lives because he's a hipster.  The thing that pissed me off the most was that he was wringing his hands about whether to send his kid to a public school, a charter school, or a private school, and his family was willing to pay for the kid to go to private school.  It's like he wants to come across as EveryDad, but has this great option that most of us trying to sort through DCPS/charters don't have.  Maybe his family could help him afford to live somewhere with better public schools, but then he'd have to give up his hipster dad cred for living ETOP in DC.[/quote]

Yes. This is the same issue I highlighted as the OP of the "Why do you live where you live" thread.  Apparently, this person has the financial means to send the kid to private school...so he could do that or move. But then he wouldn't have the hipster cred of living in Mt. P.  He might have to live in a boring JKLM neighborhood. Point is, this guy has options so why should I feel sorry for him? I'll spend my energy worrying about the kids who don't have those choices.[/quote]

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