Anonymous wrote:Wow! I can't believe that you're gleefully talking about "exterminating" poor people, Blacks and Hispanics from DC like they are roaches or something. You are unbelievably cold, heartless and hateful. Didn't you get the memo? Jim Crow is over.

Anonymous wrote:

Eye opening stats. We all know that Montgomery and Fairfax Counties have great publics. But I wonder how DC's public rank against publics in other high crime areas? Who has better publics between DC and PG? Or perhaps DC and Baltimore City?

Good questions.

In fact DC's public schools rank very poorly against publics with exclusively poor, minority demographics. But as the JKLM fetishists on DCUM will point out, the schools that aren't crippled by overwhelming poverty actually do quite well. At least a half dozen schools have flipped from the former category to the latter category on Capitol Hill in the last half-decade alone.

There's no question that DC has some bad public schools, lots of them--or that there are a lot of murders, there are. The solution to all of DC problems are already well underway--a demographic shift that drives a hefty portion of the some 30% of DC residents with a HHI of <$15k out to MD and VA.

Anonymous wrote:The burgeoning Sharks vs. Jets rivalry has inspired me (with apologies to West Side Story and 'I Like to be in America'):

I like to live in Bethesda, and
That doesn't make me an also ran.
Shall I still raise a St albans man?
To quote Obama-- yes I can!

Why would you live in Bethesda, now?
Put out to pasture just like a cow!
At DC publics you may sneer
But Beltway traffic's what I most fear!

Suburban lifestyle's where it's at!
(Driving your mini-van getting fat!)

True sophisticates live in DC!
(Then pin your school hopes on Michelle Rhee!)

ALL:
We love to post on DCUM
Vilify most on DCUM!
Civility's toast on DCUM
We'd rather roast on DCUM!

Anonymous wrote:I'm guessing you hate poor people and minorities, since you're convinced that we're ruining the DC schools. Well for your information, we've been the base of DC for years and most of us won't be leaving DC anytime soon. Why don't you get back to your Klan meeting.

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Anonymous wrote:Really would you honestly prefer a 'strip mall' in the same location as a school because it brings tax dollars?

Well, actually I think the choice is between an institution that makes lots of money educating kids from DC and MD, versus an institution that makes slightly less money, pays taxes, and educates kids from DC and MD.

You make it sound as though the city's revenues are somehow a trivial thing. I'm not sure how you think roads get built, and public schools get their windows replaced, but generally it's via tax dollars. We're already do enough charity to our suburban neighbors by bearing the majority of the region's poverty.



Anything that distributes the burden more equitably is worth looking into.

Oh, so your position is based purely on DC’s tax revenue, and not sour grapes that your little precious didn’t get into Sidwell, and therefore won’t be having sleepovers at the White House. Gotcha.

Anonymous wrote:Eye opening stats. We all know that Montgomery and Fairfax Counties have great publics. But I wonder how DC's public rank against publics in other high crime areas? Who has better publics between DC and PG? Or perhaps DC and Baltimore City?

Anonymous wrote:You poor dear. There were 143 murders in DC in 2009. While that might be "low" by your standards, DC still has a much higher number of murders than say Montgomery County (12) or Fairfax County (14). PG County beats DC as well with 100 homicides for 2009. So based on your ridiculous post about the "low crime" in DC, I think you have been huffing glue behind the 7-11...

http://mpdc.dc.gov/mpdc/cwp/view,a,1239,q,561242,mpdcNav_GID,1523,mpdcNav,|.asp

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Anonymous wrote:D.C. has high crime, poor public schools and constant traffic congestion. While it has some nice museums, I wouldn't want to raise my precious children there.

I guess we suburbanites are in an enviable position, aren't we? We have great public schools, yet we keep on snapping up your private school spots too. I can see that you're bitter, but you really should get over it. Go do yoga or something...

I always find these sorts of posts entertaining. It's like folks are still stuck in 1985. Crime is at a 50 year low, and rarely touches middle-class residents; in fact, my relatives in Montgomery County seem to fear crime as much or more than my neighbors on Capitol Hill. I wouldn't know about "traffic congestion", since the only time I experience it is on one of my occasional trips out to the suburbs. I guess that would be of particular concern to you, as a suburbanite, since all those folks stuck in the gridlock have MD and DC license plates. In contrast, my commute consists of a 15 minute bike ride to work. Either that or a 20 min bus ride--door to door.

And as far as public schools go, having grown up in Montgomery County, and with relatives who still live there, I've seen what the growth of suburban poverty has done to MCPS. I think it's great that you've obviously found one of the good public school options--for the time being. But with big state budget cuts, and the well-documented demographic shift that's been taking place and acellerating, make no mistake, the suburbs are on the way down. Hold on to those private school spots--you're going to need them!

Bottom line: I don't want my kid growing up in a cul-de-sac, their sole intellectual stimulation huffing glue out behind the 7-11.

Anonymous wrote:Eye opening stats. We all know that Montgomery and Fairfax Counties have great publics. But I wonder how DC's public rank against publics in other high crime areas? Who has better publics between DC and PG? Or perhaps DC and Baltimore City?

Anonymous wrote:You poor dear. There were 143 murders in DC in 2009. While that might be "low" by your standards, DC still has a much higher number of murders than say Montgomery County (12) or Fairfax County (14). PG County beats DC as well with 100 homicides for 2009. So based on your ridiculous post about the "low crime" in DC, I think you have been huffing glue behind the 7-11...

http://mpdc.dc.gov/mpdc/cwp/view,a,1239,q,561242,mpdcNav_GID,1523,mpdcNav,|.asp

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:D.C. has high crime, poor public schools and constant traffic congestion. While it has some nice museums, I wouldn't want to raise my precious children there.

I guess we suburbanites are in an enviable position, aren't we? We have great public schools, yet we keep on snapping up your private school spots too. I can see that you're bitter, but you really should get over it. Go do yoga or something...

I always find these sorts of posts entertaining. It's like folks are still stuck in 1985. Crime is at a 50 year low, and rarely touches middle-class residents; in fact, my relatives in Montgomery County seem to fear crime as much or more than my neighbors on Capitol Hill. I wouldn't know about "traffic congestion", since the only time I experience it is on one of my occasional trips out to the suburbs. I guess that would be of particular concern to you, as a suburbanite, since all those folks stuck in the gridlock have MD and DC license plates. In contrast, my commute consists of a 15 minute bike ride to work. Either that or a 20 min bus ride--door to door.

And as far as public schools go, having grown up in Montgomery County, and with relatives who still live there, I've seen what the growth of suburban poverty has done to MCPS. I think it's great that you've obviously found one of the good public school options--for the time being. But with big state budget cuts, and the well-documented demographic shift that's been taking place and acellerating, make no mistake, the suburbs are on the way down. Hold on to those private school spots--you're going to need them!

Bottom line: I don't want my kid growing up in a cul-de-sac, their sole intellectual stimulation huffing glue out behind the 7-11.

Anonymous wrote:

Eye opening stats. We all know that Montgomery and Fairfax Counties have great publics. But I wonder how DC's public rank against publics in other high crime areas? Who has better publics between DC and PG? Or perhaps DC and Baltimore City?

Good questions.

In fact DC's public schools rank very poorly against publics with exclusively poor, minority demographics. But as the JKLM fetishists on DCUM will point out, the schools that aren't crippled by overwhelming poverty actually do quite well. At least a half dozen schools have flipped from the former category to the latter category on Capitol Hill in the last half-decade alone.

There's no question that DC has some bad public schools, lots of them--or that there are a lot of murders, there are. The solution to all of DC problems are already well underway--a demographic shift that drives a hefty portion of the some 30% of DC residents with a HHI of <$15k out to MD and VA.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Really would you honestly prefer a 'strip mall' in the same location as a school because it brings tax dollars?

Well, actually I think the choice is between an institution that makes lots of money educating kids from DC and MD, versus an institution that makes slightly less money, pays taxes, and educates kids from DC and MD.

You make it sound as though the city's revenues are somehow a trivial thing. I'm not sure how you think roads get built, and public schools get their windows replaced, but generally it's via tax dollars. We're already do enough charity to our suburban neighbors by bearing the majority of the region's poverty.



Anything that distributes the burden more equitably is worth looking into.