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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I live WOTP and am not like OP -you are welcome to treat me like a glorified suburbanite and/or seem to be rolling in my privilege.

We bought in JKLM because I wanted my kids to go to best schools I could manage (we wouldn't be able to swing private easily for all of them but can afford a WOTP house), while not having to deal with uncertainties and commute issues of being in the lottery. I prefer the city, hence WOTP, but if we couldn't find a house in an area we wanted (or if DC didn't have schools we found acceptable), we were equally ready to move to NoVa or MoCo.

Of course I want as nice a life and education for my children as I can manage. While I hope other children have the same, they are not the first priority to me, my own children are. I am not keeping them in a worse school to prove a point.

Oh, and before children, we used to live in a hip, 'gentrifying' neighborhood, which was fun but I would never make my kids stay in a not particularly child-friendly area with bad schools if I could afford to move. I realize not everyone can afford to, but you bet I judge the hell out of you if you can afford to move to an area with better school but do not because you don't want to give up your access to fancy restaurants and cool bars and shorter commute. I grew up in poverty, going to rough urban schools - not because my parents were socially conscious liberals, but because they had no choice. Why would I inflict that on my kid when I don't have to?

Bottom line - I am quite happy to live in WOTP.

Oh, and I am not a liberal, so not all of us are.

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You've definitely done your part to represent conservative values while bringing nothing but smugness and ire to the discussion.

I was the one who posted about neighborhood schools as a way to raising quality all over and I've been in DC long enough to remember when people with your attitude and economic flexibility felt the same level of disdain for all DCPS, including JKLM.  But then more and more started sending their kids, and guess what - the quality of the schools got better.  [/quote]

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