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Anonymous wrote:You will have to pay for private schools....period. There are no magical safe and excellent public schools in the city. Even my most liberal public interest lawyer and social worker friends who are all about diversity ended up sending their kids to private schools in Baltimore.

Baltimore private schools are not as good as those in DC, but Howard county public schools are excellent and HC is a good residential area!

The schools and the kids are just as good, but Baltimore lacks the density of entitled, obnoxious, “type a” parents who think they are better than everyone else because their biological product can do well on standardized tests. These people are one of the reasons we left. I’m not sure how you are comparing and contrasting private schools. But i suspect if you apply that criteria, you’ll Find that DC schools are “not as good” as those in the NE corridor and equal to the schools in Baltimore if you adjust for population difference

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Anonymous wrote:You will have to pay for private schools....period. There are no magical safe and excellent public schools in the city. Even my most liberal public interest lawyer and social worker friends who are all about diversity ended up sending their kids to private schools in Baltimore.

Baltimore private schools are not as good as those in DC, but Howard county public schools are excellent and HC is a good residential area!

I agree Howard County has excellent schools but how do you justify your claim that the Baltimore private schools aren't as good as the DC schools? Using what measurements? Scores?

Howard is resolutely suburban. It is not for everyone but for those looking for a traditional suburban environment it is a great county. But people who like Bethesda or Chevy Chase, or Roland Park or Towson in Baltimore probably wouldn't care for Howard.

Anonymous wrote:You will have to pay for private schools....period. There are no magical safe and excellent public schools in the city. Even my most liberal public interest lawyer and social worker friends who are all about diversity ended up sending their kids to private schools in Baltimore.

Baltimore private schools are not as good as those in DC, but Howard county public schools are excellent and HC is a good residential area!

Anonymous wrote:It’s 2019 and I’m now considering moving to Baltimore. I work in foggy bottom have a three year old and I’m a single mom. Baltimore time and time again has been magnificent price wise. Is anyone else living in Baltimore and commuting into DC? I have price tunnel vision and the affordability is amazing but I’m not sure if I should be considering something else.

Please don't. I just sold my house to move back to DC after only 18 months living in Baltimore. When I first moved there, I was teleworking 80% of the time and loved taking the train into DC when I had to. I live in Bolton Hill and had a nice walk to the train station and a short commute from Union Station. I left that job recently for a new one in Friendship Heights and I'm miserable. I drive 90 minutes roundtrip and it's brutal. The time away from my 7 month old is NOT worth it.

Outside of the commute, I can't handle the crime. Another poster here said that you wouldn't live anywhere where there are homicides...sure, that MAY be the case but there are almost daily reports of people being held up at gun point all over the city. My neighbor was carjacked at 7am pulling out of her garage. Homicide is not the only crime in Baltimore. I'm leaving because I don't want to raise my daughter in Baltimore. We left because we had price tunnel vision and it was a poor decision.

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That's a nice statement, but it just isn't accurate. Talk to your friends about the curriculum, number of students in the classroom, and facilities --no comparison between even the "best" schools in the city and the schools in the county. Mt. Washington, which is consistently touted here as a wonderful school doesn't even have a playground for its K-2 school. Classes are overcrowded at RP, Mt. Washington, and other "good" schools because the community can't fill the classroom, so kids are bussed in until the class is deemed "full."

I tend to agree with others who say Roland Park and Mount Washington are good schools. I have relatives attending both and their parents are more than satisfied.

You still failed to address the important point, do kids from Roland Park and Mount Washington with decent parents end up in a similar place in life as kids going to privates or to schools in the count? I think this was an interesting point raised. If they do all tend to end up in a similar place then issues of class size etc. are kind of moot. Do you know of academically inclined Roland Park or Mount Washington kids who were unable to get accepted into competitive colleges? I only happen to know one graduate of Roland Park and they are currently excelling at Hopkins.

Here is a link to the Baltimore crime map the city has plenty of crime, but in Roland Park there does not appear to be a problem http://www.baltimorepolice.org/your-community/crime-map

Am I missing something here?

Yes you are, you are missing the point that it's not just the destination, it's the journey to getting there.

"Good schools"

You sure do have a low standard. For Roland Park On 62% are proficient in English and 58% proficient in Math? That's a D and an F.

The situation for Mt Washington is even more abysmal. 44% proficient in English and 36% in Math. Those schools are FAILURES.

nobody with any money who cares about their kids would send them there.

Plus those schools are nearly all black and white. It's not like ESL can even be used as an excuse.