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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is not a matter of being less worthy, it is a matter of knowing what the facts on the ground are.  I think it is amazing/great/fabulous/understandable/whatever that the city is being gentrified and families are staying and revitalizing the city in many ways.  The facts are that most schools outside wards 2, 3 and 4 with a few exceptions have long been abysmal failures, similar to many urban areas outside DC.  This is not solely the result of failed dcps policies and this is information that is widely available.  Of course the city needs to improve the schools for all, but that is a long term task at this point.  The reason that some dcps schools have thrived is that they have had a different cohort of families over the long term, which results in a long history of involved parents and prepared students.

The only point I was supporting was the idea that parents knew what they were getting into or should have.  I have extreme sympathy for the dilemma but not for the position that parents did not decide to place themselves in that deli a to solve.  Again, I am not speaking here to parents that have been proposed to be zoned out of successful schools or famies that do not have real choices in where they live.  And by having no choices I don't mean parents that bought a condo in a gentrifying neighborhood and are underwater or educated parents that work for non profits and refuse to move to nova (where they could afford to live in a decent school district) because of the commute.[/quote]

When the kids who are currently at Deal were born, Deal was still kind of iffy. Their families didn't plan, they just got lucky. The families who planned are in Montgomery County or private.[/quote]

This is untrue. It gets repeated all the time so newcomers with 4 yr olds start to accept it as gospel. But in fact, Deal has been the plan for inbounds Lafayette, Janney and Murch families for at least 35 years.  In that order. Fewer of them in 1985 than today, yes. But the IB kids of NPR producers and public interest lawyers in CCDC have always gone to Deal. [/quote]

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