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Anonymous wrote:Do Maury and Brent parents seriously not see a problem with their kids attending majority white schools in a city that is majority-minority? I always wonder this about SWS too. It’s not that I don’t understand that it’s no individual parent’s “fault” that this is the case, but… doesn’t it bother you? Of course we all want our kids to get a good education, but one question I’d ask myself is what we are teaching our kids when we tell them the best schools are the whitest schools. Do you not think they pick up in this stuff? Trust me: by MS they know exactly what the score is. That’s part of the education you are giving them too.

POC inbounds for Maury. We don’t send out kids there because they would be one of the only nonwhite kids in the classroom. We got in SWS- turned it down for the same reason. We drive to a charter and get some pushback from some neighbors for not supporting our neighborhood schools (these are exclusively white women who feel at liberty to say this).

Then point I am trying to make is that you can’t win. I do not feel offended at people who choose to go to their neighborhood school. It’s a rich white neighborhood and attacking people who send their kids to the local public school won’t help. SWS on the other hand……

Maury is 40% non-white though? I mean you do you (and it's nice that you found a charter you like), but I don't think it's accurate to say that your child would be "one of the only" nonwhite kids.

Not in the lower grades

But even the lower grades are like 20%+ non-white, so it is still not-at-all true to say that a kid would be the *only* non-white kid in their class.

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Anonymous wrote:Do Maury and Brent parents seriously not see a problem with their kids attending majority white schools in a city that is majority-minority? I always wonder this about SWS too. It’s not that I don’t understand that it’s no individual parent’s “fault” that this is the case, but… doesn’t it bother you? Of course we all want our kids to get a good education, but one question I’d ask myself is what we are teaching our kids when we tell them the best schools are the whitest schools. Do you not think they pick up in this stuff? Trust me: by MS they know exactly what the score is. That’s part of the education you are giving them too.

POC inbounds for Maury. We don’t send out kids there because they would be one of the only nonwhite kids in the classroom. We got in SWS- turned it down for the same reason. We drive to a charter and get some pushback from some neighbors for not supporting our neighborhood schools (these are exclusively white women who feel at liberty to say this).

Then point I am trying to make is that you can’t win. I do not feel offended at people who choose to go to their neighborhood school. It’s a rich white neighborhood and attacking people who send their kids to the local public school won’t help. SWS on the other hand……

Maury is 40% non-white though? I mean you do you (and it's nice that you found a charter you like), but I don't think it's accurate to say that your child would be "one of the only" nonwhite kids.

Not in the lower grades

Was just going to post this.

It is common in Capital Hill schools for them to be majority or even mostly white in the PK and early grades, and then become less and less white as the ages increase. It's generally pretty obvious to anyone who has attended one of these schools, and the implications are uncomfortable. That doesn't mean anyone is wrong for attending or not attending their in-bound school -- families have to make the choices that make the most sense for them, and no one should be expected to sacrifice their child to an abstract value, especially because one family doing this alone will have no impact.

But it is something we should keep talking about, even if it's uncomfortable. I honestly think we need some kind of "come to Jesus" moment with DC public school and that we probably need to overhaul the whole system. And that is scary to people who have gotten comfortable with the current system and found ways to make it work for them. But it is very hard to look at DC schools and say "yep, this seems fine, why change it." The inequities are alarming and I actually really do wonder what my child is learning about the world from that. The kids see it, they know what is going on. And I think it impacts kids on both sides of the privilege divide negatively, because what we're really telling our kids is that we don't know how to do any better and have basically given up on trying.

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Anonymous wrote:Do Maury and Brent parents seriously not see a problem with their kids attending majority white schools in a city that is majority-minority? I always wonder this about SWS too. It’s not that I don’t understand that it’s no individual parent’s “fault” that this is the case, but… doesn’t it bother you? Of course we all want our kids to get a good education, but one question I’d ask myself is what we are teaching our kids when we tell them the best schools are the whitest schools. Do you not think they pick up in this stuff? Trust me: by MS they know exactly what the score is. That’s part of the education you are giving them too.

POC inbounds for Maury. We don’t send out kids there because they would be one of the only nonwhite kids in the classroom. We got in SWS- turned it down for the same reason. We drive to a charter and get some pushback from some neighbors for not supporting our neighborhood schools (these are exclusively white women who feel at liberty to say this).

Then point I am trying to make is that you can’t win. I do not feel offended at people who choose to go to their neighborhood school. It’s a rich white neighborhood and attacking people who send their kids to the local public school won’t help. SWS on the other hand……

Maury is 40% non-white though? I mean you do you (and it's nice that you found a charter you like), but I don't think it's accurate to say that your child would be "one of the only" nonwhite kids.

Not in the lower grades

Anonymous wrote:What's crazy is that hardly any Maury or L-T kids got back until April. Ech.

L-T had at least one class per grade for T3 (although the 5th grade class was closer to a CARES set up), so this isn't actually accurate.

Anonymous wrote:Meanwhile, the OP has decided not to move to Capitol Hill.

Thanks everyone!

So? He/she needs to be tough to make it here. These issues won’t go away without airing them.

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Anonymous wrote:I think Brent has the highest cost real estate, followed by Maury and Ludlow-Taylor.

L-T's real estate costs more on average than Maury's, because of how far east the Maury zone goes.

Maury is considered the better school but I prefer the walkability of LT. Stanton Park, union station, h street, union market.

Totally agree. The explosion of H street & Noma makes the L-T IB one of the nicest areas of the city to live in in my mind

I live in the LT zone (and so am extremely biased) but I also love it and think it's perfect for young families. The area around Lincoln Park is very nice too but I much prefer the easy proximity to groceries, restaurants, etc. that you get by being close to H street, and the shorter (5-20min, depending on which part of the zone you are in) walk to the metro.

It’s an embarrassment of riches really. I love being near Lincoln Park and Eastern Market but being near H St and Union Statiok would be great too.

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Anonymous wrote:Do Maury and Brent parents seriously not see a problem with their kids attending majority white schools in a city that is majority-minority? I always wonder this about SWS too. It’s not that I don’t understand that it’s no individual parent’s “fault” that this is the case, but… doesn’t it bother you? Of course we all want our kids to get a good education, but one question I’d ask myself is what we are teaching our kids when we tell them the best schools are the whitest schools. Do you not think they pick up in this stuff? Trust me: by MS they know exactly what the score is. That’s part of the education you are giving them too.

POC inbounds for Maury. We don’t send out kids there because they would be one of the only nonwhite kids in the classroom. We got in SWS- turned it down for the same reason. We drive to a charter and get some pushback from some neighbors for not supporting our neighborhood schools (these are exclusively white women who feel at liberty to say this).

Then point I am trying to make is that you can’t win. I do not feel offended at people who choose to go to their neighborhood school. It’s a rich white neighborhood and attacking people who send their kids to the local public school won’t help. SWS on the other hand……

Maury is 40% non-white though? I mean you do you (and it's nice that you found a charter you like), but I don't think it's accurate to say that your child would be "one of the only" nonwhite kids.

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Anonymous wrote:I think Brent has the highest cost real estate, followed by Maury and Ludlow-Taylor.

L-T's real estate costs more on average than Maury's, because of how far east the Maury zone goes.

Maury is considered the better school but I prefer the walkability of LT. Stanton Park, union station, h street, union market.

Totally agree. The explosion of H street & Noma makes the L-T IB one of the nicest areas of the city to live in in my mind

I live in the LT zone (and so am extremely biased) but I also love it and think it's perfect for young families. The area around Lincoln Park is very nice too but I much prefer the easy proximity to groceries, restaurants, etc. that you get by being close to H street, and the shorter (5-20min, depending on which part of the zone you are in) walk to the metro.

If you are talking about the parts of Lincoln Park that include the Maury catchment, those are reasonably close to Stadium Armory and Potomac Ave metro stops, close to Safeway, walkable to Harris Teeter (and not long to Eastern Market). I grant you restaurants are denser on H St.

Yeah but feel free to shell out the big bucks for the area zoned for Maury by Lincoln Park.

Anonymous wrote:Do Maury and Brent parents seriously not see a problem with their kids attending majority white schools in a city that is majority-minority? I always wonder this about SWS too. It’s not that I don’t understand that it’s no individual parent’s “fault” that this is the case, but… doesn’t it bother you? Of course we all want our kids to get a good education, but one question I’d ask myself is what we are teaching our kids when we tell them the best schools are the whitest schools. Do you not think they pick up in this stuff? Trust me: by MS they know exactly what the score is. That’s part of the education you are giving them too.

POC inbounds for Maury. We don’t send out kids there because they would be one of the only nonwhite kids in the classroom. We got in SWS- turned it down for the same reason. We drive to a charter and get some pushback from some neighbors for not supporting our neighborhood schools (these are exclusively white women who feel at liberty to say this).

Then point I am trying to make is that you can’t win. I do not feel offended at people who choose to go to their neighborhood school. It’s a rich white neighborhood and attacking people who send their kids to the local public school won’t help. SWS on the other hand……

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Anonymous wrote:We are in Peabody / Watkins and sending our son there for prek3. Watkins is the only truly racially diverse school amongst Brent, Maury and LT. Other posters aren't saying that but so much of the Maury, Brent and LT hype is because upper middle class white parents who can't afford private school are happy that their kids aren't going to school with black kids. Just keep that in mind when you think about what kind of school experience you want for your kids.

What are you even talking about? Peabody is the WHITEST of all these schools, at 66%. And they are all racially diverse, by any objective standard.

And it's pretty telling how many of those families bail on Watkins either early or outright. Lots of Hill families will 'tolerate' DC public schools for young kids but are easily scared off when they hit elementary. The Peabody families who stick around are likely the ones who actually value the diversity, but LOTS of Peabody families do not. Sadly that's not unique for Cap Hill public schools.

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Anonymous wrote:I think Brent has the highest cost real estate, followed by Maury and Ludlow-Taylor.

L-T's real estate costs more on average than Maury's, because of how far east the Maury zone goes.

Maury is considered the better school but I prefer the walkability of LT. Stanton Park, union station, h street, union market.

Totally agree. The explosion of H street & Noma makes the L-T IB one of the nicest areas of the city to live in in my mind

I live in the LT zone (and so am extremely biased) but I also love it and think it's perfect for young families. The area around Lincoln Park is very nice too but I much prefer the easy proximity to groceries, restaurants, etc. that you get by being close to H street, and the shorter (5-20min, depending on which part of the zone you are in) walk to the metro.

If you are talking about the parts of Lincoln Park that include the Maury catchment, those are reasonably close to Stadium Armory and Potomac Ave metro stops, close to Safeway, walkable to Harris Teeter (and not long to Eastern Market). I grant you restaurants are denser on H St.

Both are nice places to live. If you value walkability to groceries, restaurants, metro, then the LT zone probably comes out ahead. But you can walk to stuff in the Maury zone too, it's not like it's the suburbs. And it's really nice to be close to Lincoln Park.

Anonymous wrote:Brent’s principal has a habit of retaliation if you’re not “rah rah” about the school. In response to mild and measures constructive criticism, she called CPS on my family.

The admins deleted previous comments for some reason.

This is a pretty wild accusation. She called CPS on your family??

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Anonymous wrote:I think Brent has the highest cost real estate, followed by Maury and Ludlow-Taylor.

L-T's real estate costs more on average than Maury's, because of how far east the Maury zone goes.

Maury is considered the better school but I prefer the walkability of LT. Stanton Park, union station, h street, union market.

Totally agree. The explosion of H street & Noma makes the L-T IB one of the nicest areas of the city to live in in my mind

I live in the LT zone (and so am extremely biased) but I also love it and think it's perfect for young families. The area around Lincoln Park is very nice too but I much prefer the easy proximity to groceries, restaurants, etc. that you get by being close to H street, and the shorter (5-20min, depending on which part of the zone you are in) walk to the metro.

If you are talking about the parts of Lincoln Park that include the Maury catchment, those are reasonably close to Stadium Armory and Potomac Ave metro stops, close to Safeway, walkable to Harris Teeter (and not long to Eastern Market). I grant you restaurants are denser on H St.

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Anonymous wrote:I think Brent has the highest cost real estate, followed by Maury and Ludlow-Taylor.

L-T's real estate costs more on average than Maury's, because of how far east the Maury zone goes.

Maury is considered the better school but I prefer the walkability of LT. Stanton Park, union station, h street, union market.

Totally agree. The explosion of H street & Noma makes the L-T IB one of the nicest areas of the city to live in in my mind

I live in the LT zone (and so am extremely biased) but I also love it and think it's perfect for young families. The area around Lincoln Park is very nice too but I much prefer the easy proximity to groceries, restaurants, etc. that you get by being close to H street, and the shorter (5-20min, depending on which part of the zone you are in) walk to the metro.

Anonymous wrote:We are in Peabody / Watkins and sending our son there for prek3. Watkins is the only truly racially diverse school amongst Brent, Maury and LT. Other posters aren't saying that but so much of the Maury, Brent and LT hype is because upper middle class white parents who can't afford private school are happy that their kids aren't going to school with black kids. Just keep that in mind when you think about what kind of school experience you want for your kids.

What are you even talking about? Peabody is the WHITEST of all these schools, at 66%. And they are all racially diverse, by any objective standard.