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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Yes, exactly, well said.  My own family is reluctantly facing the music this summer for little kids.  We get it now: we will probaby not have access to a DC public MS where our children will learn alongside a critical mass of well-prepared peers, even a decade from now.

Too many listened politely to Catania yesterday without trying to pin him down on a time-frame (10-15 years?) for proposed improvements that would create an Alice-Deal-for-All scenario.

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What do you want him - or any candidate for that matter - to say to this? "Yes, ma'am, I will fight to make this a city for the well-off. I promise, the rest of the city will look like Tenleytown if I can help it; none of that struggling riffraff?" (Or was that not what you meant by "alongside a critical mass of well-prepared peers"?) By the way, if it's that part of town you're looking for, why not move there? [/quote]

How about I'll fight to create schools Hill families of various stripes don't flee in droves?  How about, we'll make a practice of asking you, parent, taxpayer and voter, exactly what it would take to convince you to keep your kids in Hill schools past 4th grade, and doing our damndest to provide it?  That might work.   We will almost certainly move to NW or the burbs soon enough, thanks.
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