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Your comment isn't rooted in reality.  Many families enroll in schools without respect to geography.  Just look at the Hill students attending private schools across town (not as uncommon as you think).  Same deal with charters.  People will send their kids to the school they think is best suited to their educational philosophy and the needs of their children.  That may be a neighborhood school, but it could just as easiliy be located somewhere else.  [b]You are likely to find that your kid's "neighborhood pals" attend school all over the map whether you think that's best or not [/b] .[/quote]

In the LT District, yes, neighborhood pals all over the map.  In the Brent District, hardly the case.  I'd wager that 3/4 of the K-2nd grade kids there now attend Brent.   A few still land at St. Peter, non-sectarian privates, DC public language immersion charters, SWS, Logan etc. but certainly not the majority.  Spend time at the Turtle Park playground on weekends and you get a good feel for how much benefit the community accrues from having families enroll WITH RESPECT TO GEOGRAPHY.  Overall, those SE parents are much tighter-knit than the LT crowd and the resultant community cohesion counts for a lot.  Have you seen what they're paying for down there - the smart boards in almost every classroom, the impressive music and art supplies, the advanced math instruction?  The reality is that strong neighborhood schools are optimal, not scattering local talent and diluting parental commitment.   No charter or DCPS program with a city-wide lottery raises as much as JKLM or Brent on a per capita basis, not even close.  Funny how a truly high-SES friendly set-up (er, DC-CAS scores in the 80s and 90s at your school around the corner) tends to trump educational philosophy...
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I'm well familiar with the Turtle Park crowd and it's mostly toddlers not Brent kids (kind of babyish, no?).  Plenty of CQ parents there too without kids at Brent.  Most of the talk I hear is fretting over prospective PS space for said toddlers (the IB  ones at least) and getting sliced out of redistricting.  Not to mention PRIVATE school kids.  Brent just isn't that big.  If you leave your little bubble for 5 minutes you'd know just how dispersed families are throughout the Hill, and not just your small corner of it.[/quote]

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