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[quote=Anonymous]This post is fascinating.  Thanks so much to the op for starting it. I truly appreciated the analysis previous posters gave about the history of charters and the hill and Dunbar. I'm an AA parent who lives in Trinidad. We absolutely love Trinidad. There are tons of diverse young families - whites, blacks, Asians and it's an incredibly close community. Many young families have been here longer than we have (we moved in in 2011 pre-kids) and many new young families are newer. Most families do not send their kids to Wheatley not necessarily because it's a k-8 (honestly that would be great if the education was strong). The issue with Wheatley which many of us only found out more recently is that it supports a large homeless population because we are close to NY Ave and the closest elementary school zoned for the many families thar are placed in the hotels in that area. What that means is the school has a larger lower SES profile and the issues that come with that. It could never be a school that largely reflects the neighborhood because a large percentage of kids outside the neighborhood feed into it with more challenging needs. I'm on my phone so will write a second post momentarily about our views on school options in the area.[/quote]

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