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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’ll do the same thing I did this year. Pull my children again and move back in with relatives in another state where they were/are open and send them to school there. It will suck again for me, but at least my kids were happy and went to school every day.[/quote]

I will do this as well for my kindergarten and pre-k children.  Plus I will do the same if they close school on the  regular for quarantine/positive cases. [/quote]

What alarms me about this - which I think is understandable 
- is the flight of middle/upper middle class families from the school district permanently [/quote]

There will always be new crops of interested middle/upper income families flocking to DC to give public school a try, because DC has always been cool to live as an adult, and all the newly minted post-grad kids want to remain in the same city where they got drunk and hooked up.  COVID is a temporary disaster that may chase out a few of those families, but honestly most of them would have left these public grounds anyway.  DCPS is DCPS -- that is all there is to know, and all you need to know.  Kind of timeless in that way.[/quote]

We'll find out in a few years whether the moves out of DCPS are permanent or actually cause a dip in enrollment.  But we won't know for a while.  Probably there will be a dip in enrollment this upcoming year (if the 20% drop in applications is any indication).

But mostly no one cares if the middle class leaves DC, and many even wish that middle class white people would go.  So it's not like DCPS really gives a sh*t; they aren't going to open in order to make sure families stay in DC.[/quote]

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