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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]^^^  That's too bad how you feel.  Her race will have nothing to do with how good a job she'll do.  Hopefully she's a good administrator and fair, and will be a Hill resident committed to the community.  The Cluster blows.[/quote]

If her race doesn't matter, why does it matter if she is a hill resident?  Do you think that teachers and administrators should live in the neighborhoods where they work in order to be effective? [/quote]

Absolutely yes, because a principal is critical to the stability of the school and neighborhood.  You need someone committed to the neighborhood.  Hopefully Ms. Bell will not be commuting from Warrenton and treating this like another job and paycheck, but will actually move onto the Hill and want to make life here better for her neighbors.  LT has soooo much awesome potential to be a positive neighborhood school; a principal who cares about that can and will make it happen.[/quote]

If that's the case, how many principal candidates would be able to afford to buy a house in the Key, Murch, Janney, or Stoddert neighborhoods.  Not everyone principal candidate can afford to pay $600-800k for a house on Capitol Hill.  DC is not the small town that you probably grew up in in PA, IA, or wherever you're from.  In those small communities where most gentrifiers like yourself are from, the principal is head of the elementary, middle, and high school.  Welcome to the bug city, where people can choose to live where they want and still care about students.[/quote]

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