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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^^ I think this is simplistic but would love to hear your conspiracy theory.   These families you talk about were much fewer in number and there houses were far cheaper.  So the possibility of private schools through high school was there.  Also, Stuart Hobson did not have a feed from Ludlow Taylor or from JO Wilson .  It was essentially a magnet school drawing in motivated families and a few graduates from Watkins.  Things have changed--especially with charter schools drawing away many motivated and academically oriented students.

[b]You are talking about an era when the only public elementary school that served middle class kids from the immediate neighborhood was Watkins.  Now there are large numbers of these families at Brent, Tyler, Maury and at preschool at Ludlow and JO Wilson.   [/b]

With large mortgages and large families and simultaneously valuing public education and strong neighborhoods, these families rightfully long for a public middle school and even high school.  However--middle school brings issues that are not in play at the elementary level and these need to be addressed by the city and by DCPS before this can work.

In the meantime, yes, families will use the charters and privates but that is far from ideal.[/quote]

My point exactly. Many, many more acceptable choices. A possibly more demanding clientele with a little less fungible cash to put towards privates, if even that. Schools are not primarily the reason they move out - if they do -, is where my conclusion possibly differs from yours.[/quote]

I think we agree.  Few people moves out only because of schools although it is a convenient reason to give.  My point is that shipping kids out of the neighborhood for charters or out of the public system for school is far from the ideal especially when the numbers and conditions for some great middle and high school options in the neighborhood are gathering. But maybe I am too idealistic.  In the meantime, yes, there are lots of good enough options in the city.[/quote]

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