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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Great, more traffic on Wisconsin! No. [/quote]

Because I am driving 8th grade DC1 to pickup point for private school in MoCo and then DC2 to Sidwell for 6th grade because the now-out Hardy principal has FUBAR'd our neighborhood MS? And then back ont Wisconsin to take DC3 to IB Hardy feeder while I contemplate how to pay a third private school tuition after paying $70K in DC income and property taxes for a neighborhood and home I love but stuck with a school system focused on raising the bottom up but not the middle (and definitely NOT raising the top up).

Wisconsin Ave all the way.[/quote]

But why would you need 3 tuitions? Your oldest will be ready for Wilson before your youngest starts.

Someone who can afford in bounds Hardy housing, and $70K tuition can choose many other places to live that would involve less driving and good schools.  You chose this, not sure why.[/quote]

You sound like the Mayor - thank you for your tax dollars, you may sit down now. Or leave, because there are plenty of dual-income young couples waiting for the positive pregnancy test who will be tax contributors for 9-11 years until they fully comprehend  that the District is all about raising the bottom at the expense of children born to parents who actually care about advancing their children's education every year of their 14 years of primary and secondary education, not just 9 or 10 of those years.

We stay here because we love our home, our neighborhood, the 5-minute proximity to Rock Creek Park and the Potomac, being able to walk everywhere, including to our offices. It will be a huge sacrifice to send our three kids to private school - we don't have parents/grandparents who were Biglaw or started us out with our house (as our two mortgages attest). Perhaps we will send the oldest to Wilson or Walls. Not sure we will be able to extricate DC2 from the Big 3 selected. And with the "every child is gifted" mentality of DCPS. DC3 is just bored to tears, literally (hate seeing those dried tear tracks on DC's cheeks at piclk-up). So we supplement with on-line math and math competitions, creative writing workshops, and lots and lots of music instruction. [/quote]

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