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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t know what the solution is but as a Lafayette family, I can tell you zoning out a bunch of rich white kids to try to integrate a school is just short sighted. The road to improvement is a one-way street. Families strive to do better with the resources they have. Trying to get a huge cohort of UNW families to accept a worse school, when they have the resources not to accept that choice is extremely strange. Particularly when most of the families live less than a mile away from a crescent ring of excellent public schools that stretch from Arlington over to North Bethesda. Or alternatively, of course, private. Right now a seat at Lafayette is worth about, what $600k? We have $600k. Do you? [/quote]

There may be a $600k premium to get fat away from brown people but hardly called a “Lafayette” premium. Hence why so many Lafayette IB still go private. There is not a $600k difference between Chevy Chase and Crestwood.[/quote]

I’m not talking about real estate. I’m talking about a JKLM seat that feeds to Wilson. That’s an adequate set of schools that means most families with pretty typical learners can use public schools instead of going to private school. That is worth $600-700k per kid. It’s extremely valuable. And DCUM seems to think that this $600k option can be removed without some kind of bruising fight with a bunch of people who have that kind of money. That’s crazy to me. Sharing opportunity is one thing. Removing it is a whole different game. [/quote]

I’m not sure I follow then. It costs the same at all schools.[/quote]

Really? JKLM seats are valuable because they are a viable replacement for private schools from K-12 among a community of families who can afford private.  You could rezone parts of NE all day long and no one would ever notice. There aren’t that many schools that stand out and even if there were, families couldn’t afford an alternative. WOTP it’s completely different. It’s going to be a bruising fight to try to remove anything that valuable from families that have come to expect it. There is a reason entitlement reform never happens. [/quote]

Oh you think DC cares about WOTP? Ha! Like PPs have said, what exactly are you you going to do? Move? DC would love that. You gonna physically overthrow the govt? You don’t have enough power. Sorry. It’s ludicrous to fight a move with a middle school on pace to hit 2000 students.[/quote]

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