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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I wonder if people would agree with me or want to discuss this point - I could break it onto a new thread - is whether the upper class/ish people who are new to Wards 1, 4, 5, and 6 (though it’s insulting, let’s call them gentrifiers for clarity) - are going to respond to the push/pull factors within DCPS in the same way Ward 3 would. Just for example, I read the above about people shying away from Hardy, even what some would call the “bad old Hardy,” whatever that was, and think people in Ward 1 with elementary kids wouldn’t shun a Hardy. They’d flock to it. And there are charters rather than privates as options here, though with their own limited access issues and weird locations eg up in Ward 4 above Military Road. And people over here are used to living and dying by lottery and figuring it out, not crying and moving to Potomac or whatever.  Just thinking - wondering if anyone shares that sentiment that basically the old UMC Ward 3 and new EOTP gentrifiers don’t think the same ways about schools. [/quote]

the new 'gentrifiers' are 'flocking' to Basis & DCI (if feeding in), praying for Latin or gaming for Deal - but haven't been lotterying for Hardy, yet, and they totally could.  But as the school hits Deal levels on terms of composition & scores in the next two years (while being 1/3 the size of Deal), that might change.

I grew up in this area.  Ward 3 wasn't what it is now.  It was the Deal flip around 10 years ago that changed.  Before that, the Deal & Wilson #s were lower than 30% high SES.

It's a big difference for people who purchase homes - and part of what they pay more for in property costs and what they value - is the by-rights school vs. knowing you had to gamble (living & dying by the lottery)[/quote]

It's unclear where you actually mean when you say you grew up "here" -- so that's how you know that Ward 3 was merely meh until Deal's demographics changed. Did you really grow up in Ward 3?  Because I've been here in Ward 3 for 30 years, a couple of blocks away from Deal, and I recall things differently.  It's always been expensive and UMC.  The difference in the 80s to 2009, when the stock market tanked, is that we just sent our kids to independent schools. [/quote]

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