Anonymous wrote:Sorry, my seven year old doesn't need to mature by virtue of being exposed to foul language, bullying, fighting and other thuggish behavior. You are perhaps conflating maturity and skills needed to survive the challenges of a particular type of urban environment.

two snowflakes enter, one snowflake leaves!

Sorry, my seven year old doesn't need to mature by virtue of being exposed to foul language, bullying, fighting and other thuggish behavior. You are perhaps conflating maturity and skills needed to survive the challenges of a particular type of urban environment.

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This is a wonderful thread. Just how many of you providing comments on this thread live in Ward 7? Well, I do. I played the lottery four years ago and won a Pre-k slot at a Ward 3 school. Our in-boundary school was not a option at the time. Stayed there for four years. The school is frequently mentioned here with much love/hate sentiment. After four years of in-bound/OOB politics, our child's commute, and other bullsh*t, we decided to try our neighborhood school in Ward 7. The experience has been an eye opener. Our current school is wonderful. The teachers are supportive and excited about my child. However, the kids are definitely rough (foul language, fighting), which is a bit of a culture shock for my child who grew up in calmer school environment. The switch from ward 3 to 7 has matured my child positively, rather than negatively. My child has had exposure to things this year that wasn't available at our ward 3 school. I could write a book about this.

I would like mention the fact that there are extracurricular activities and programs located east of the river that are free or affordablely priced where hill parents take full advantage of, but yet scream about ward 7 children invading their schools.

Anonymous wrote:What is the point when people say "all of Ward 6 is not the Hill". What are you trying to say?

Not PP but I assume that the point is that some of Ward 6 includes schools that suck. It's not all Brent, Peabody, etc.

Anonymous wrote:What is the point when people say "all of Ward 6 is not the Hill". What are you trying to say?

Not sure what you are asking, but I live in mount Vernon triangle, Ward 6.

You don't get the full picture from the video. The most interesting part about the hearing wasn't the public testimony, it was watching the CMs and DCPS VIPs react to it. They weren't very interested in the Ward 6 issues, not as group anyway. They tuned out, chatted, talked on phones when they heard SWS, Brent, Stuart Hobson, Watkins etc. Hill feeder issues need local political attention they're pretty clearly lacking.

Moving the boundary of Ward 7 to include Eastern would have had absolutely no affect on property values of adjacent properties that remained in Ward 6, much less throughout Ward 6. I suppose there is a theoretical possibilty that there might be some slight diminution in value if a parcel or block is switched to Ward 7, but this is entire independent of whether Eastern happens to be in Ward 6 or 7.

Why don't the Ward 7 folks either get on the "no more MD kids" bandwagon OR take a page from their book and start sending their children to "live" with families in MD with better schools?

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Anonymous wrote:When Eastern wanted to go to Ward 7 because the majority of Eastern's population is from Ward 7, then Ward 6 cried foul. They [ward 6] made all of these notions and motions that Eastern belongs to Ward 6 and here it is two years later and there's not enough Ward 6 students in Eastern to make it salveageable. You only wanted Eastern in your demographics to make your real estate property lucrative...to the sellers/buyers market. Bamboozled.

Hi Word Salad lady!

Who thinks Eastern as an IB school helps their property value? House values are rising in that area but it sure isn't because of eastern. Is there a single white kid/high SES kid at eastern? the JKLM and Deal/Wilson have proven track records and thus do improve house values. Eastern...not yet. But hopefully in the future that will change.