Reply to Feedback on Eaton Elementary School in Cleveland Park, NW

Forum Index » DC Public and Public Charter Schools

Reply to "Feedback on Eaton Elementary School in Cleveland Park, NW"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]hmm, based on these posts maybe OOB isn't code word for brown or poor, maybe it really is about you can't afford to live in my neighborhood (which is why op isn't bothered about being the unwanted OOB at Stoddard because she does feel she lives in the neighborhood).  We lived in a crappy 2 bedroom condo IB for Eaton, and I can tell you people in my neighborhood knew we couldn't "really" afford to live there and treated us accordingly though we are white and hyper-educated with kids likely to do well when testing comes around in 3rd grade.[/quote]

We were in a similar circumstance and but the supposed attitude you mention was not our experience at all.  The real point is that there is more economic diversity within the Eaton boundary area than people may realize.[/quote]

The people who live right around Eaton understand that there are many rental apartments along the avenues.  They've been there since the 1920s, so this isn't news to anyone who lives in the general area.     It's also not newsworthy that rent for a 1-bed + den apartment on Connecticut is less than the mortgage payment for $4.5 million Victorian on Newark St.  [/quote]

well, just try to get a playdate for your three year old at Macomb playground.  I'd be standing with two other moms talking about our babies/toddler, we all just met each other and went through the oh where do you live routine.  Then I'd go follow my three year old for five minutes and come back to hear the tail ends of a playdate established by the other two.  And it's not me, because now that we live elsewhere playdates just fall from the trees.  [/quote]

i am sure the IBers at Eaton would have been lovely to us (whether they lived in Victorians or apartments) because that is a self-selecting population, but we never made it that long.

Here's one difference, at Halloween, as candy was handed out to my very slow going 2 year old, I can't tell you how many people asked "Do you live in the neighborhood."  Never was this asked, not once, in my new neighborhood.  It is just a mindset difference.  Perhaps some of it is feeling we overstretched ourselves for this mediocre house in a good neighborhood and it isn't fair that others get the same school or neighborhood etc without the sacrifice. Or perhaps it is true snobbery.

Glad you had a better experience in CP.  [/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics