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Anonymous wrote:I work in NOMA and no way would I want my middle school kid walking around there regularly. HS kid would be ok.
Even Union Station has become sketchy

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Anonymous wrote:I work in NOMA and no way would I want my middle school kid walking around there regularly. HS kid would be ok.
Even Union Station has become sketchy

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Anonymous wrote:By the time hill kids are in late ES or MS their families are venturing into ward 3 and the burbs a lot. There is less of a need for ward 3 families to to the reverse. Ward 6 has built up an infrastructure for young families but has less for older kids. Schools, sports, the arts, etc.

We are bound for DCI and no need to go anywhere. Lots of clubs, extracurriculars, and sports. Just pick up after the above or kid can take public transportation home. Easy, just like the bigger schools in the burbs with similar offerings.

How is your kid going to get from DCI to the Hill? Will your 6th grader walk throught Brightwood, cross Georgia, then take the Redline to Union Station? I might have sort of planned on this a few years ago, but not right now.

Guys the fact is - beyond ES is a HUGE toss-up on the Hill. Other than "be really rich," there's no guaranteed solution. So you have to really like the neighborhood. Or face moving right when RE prices are cratering, whee!

I’m the PP and we are not on the Hill. We are by H St. Groups of middle school kids take metro to school all the time.

2 minute car ride to NOMA metro and straight red line. Bus at metro to school. Lots of kids do this.

Except you still have to win the lottery to do it. And then pick up your kid at the NOMA metro in the afternoon. Last time I walked somewhere out the NOMA metro the sidewalk was literally covered in a trail of blood for like three blocks.

Nope kid can easily walk home. 2 min drive, 8-10 minute walk. No problem for few middle school kids.

So drama queen. It’s obvious you don’t live in the area or have a clue.

I live in the area which is exactly why I know exactly what I’m talking about.

The idea that an 11 year old is going to walk home from the NOMA metro alone is pretty questionable. So people who are considering it when their kids are toddlers need to know that and factor it into their decisionmaking. Not only would you need to win the charter lottery, but you’d also have to be OK with your child at 11 walking alone through what is currently one of the more dangerous DC neighborhoods (and until recently, likely walk through a homeless encampment.)

I’m OK with my middle schooler walking with friends there. Heck, I’m even OK making the 5 minute drop off at the metro for a good middle/high school with lots of extracurriculars.

Why don’t you tell us your plan on your kid walking to McKinley or Eastern then. You will be doing a whole lot more driving.

The comparison is not McKinley or Eastern. It’s moving somewhere your kid can take the bus (MoCo) or walk through safer neighborhoods (NW).

So basically you are telling OP to go to her neighborhood IB school and then move WOTP or to MD. Got it.

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Anonymous wrote:By the time hill kids are in late ES or MS their families are venturing into ward 3 and the burbs a lot. There is less of a need for ward 3 families to to the reverse. Ward 6 has built up an infrastructure for young families but has less for older kids. Schools, sports, the arts, etc.

We are bound for DCI and no need to go anywhere. Lots of clubs, extracurriculars, and sports. Just pick up after the above or kid can take public transportation home. Easy, just like the bigger schools in the burbs with similar offerings.

How is your kid going to get from DCI to the Hill? Will your 6th grader walk throught Brightwood, cross Georgia, then take the Redline to Union Station? I might have sort of planned on this a few years ago, but not right now.

Guys the fact is - beyond ES is a HUGE toss-up on the Hill. Other than "be really rich," there's no guaranteed solution. So you have to really like the neighborhood. Or face moving right when RE prices are cratering, whee!

I’m the PP and we are not on the Hill. We are by H St. Groups of middle school kids take metro to school all the time.

2 minute car ride to NOMA metro and straight red line. Bus at metro to school. Lots of kids do this.

Except you still have to win the lottery to do it. And then pick up your kid at the NOMA metro in the afternoon. Last time I walked somewhere out the NOMA metro the sidewalk was literally covered in a trail of blood for like three blocks.

Nope kid can easily walk home. 2 min drive, 8-10 minute walk. No problem for few middle school kids.

So drama queen. It’s obvious you don’t live in the area or have a clue.

I live in the area which is exactly why I know exactly what I’m talking about.

The idea that an 11 year old is going to walk home from the NOMA metro alone is pretty questionable. So people who are considering it when their kids are toddlers need to know that and factor it into their decisionmaking. Not only would you need to win the charter lottery, but you’d also have to be OK with your child at 11 walking alone through what is currently one of the more dangerous DC neighborhoods (and until recently, likely walk through a homeless encampment.)

I live in the area and you do you. A group, no one said alone, of middle schoolers are fine getting out of the NOMA metro on the REI side and walking down M St. The encampment has long been gone,

LOL! You sound like you would be better living in the burbs if you think NOMA and H st are dangerous areas. You will be driving your kid everywhere if that’s your judgement.

Again - it’s nice that you, personally, worked that out for your 11 year old. OP needs to understand what the actual facts are and assess whether she is comfortable with it and ALL the contingencies it entails. The encampment could come back; and moreover the issue is that it was allowed to stay in the first place. I’m far from a shrinking violet but that stretch by REI is still sketchy.

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Anonymous wrote:By the time hill kids are in late ES or MS their families are venturing into ward 3 and the burbs a lot. There is less of a need for ward 3 families to to the reverse. Ward 6 has built up an infrastructure for young families but has less for older kids. Schools, sports, the arts, etc.

We are bound for DCI and no need to go anywhere. Lots of clubs, extracurriculars, and sports. Just pick up after the above or kid can take public transportation home. Easy, just like the bigger schools in the burbs with similar offerings.

How is your kid going to get from DCI to the Hill? Will your 6th grader walk throught Brightwood, cross Georgia, then take the Redline to Union Station? I might have sort of planned on this a few years ago, but not right now.

Guys the fact is - beyond ES is a HUGE toss-up on the Hill. Other than "be really rich," there's no guaranteed solution. So you have to really like the neighborhood. Or face moving right when RE prices are cratering, whee!

I’m the PP and we are not on the Hill. We are by H St. Groups of middle school kids take metro to school all the time.

2 minute car ride to NOMA metro and straight red line. Bus at metro to school. Lots of kids do this.

Except you still have to win the lottery to do it. And then pick up your kid at the NOMA metro in the afternoon. Last time I walked somewhere out the NOMA metro the sidewalk was literally covered in a trail of blood for like three blocks.

Nope kid can easily walk home. 2 min drive, 8-10 minute walk. No problem for few middle school kids.

So drama queen. It’s obvious you don’t live in the area or have a clue.

I live in the area which is exactly why I know exactly what I’m talking about.

The idea that an 11 year old is going to walk home from the NOMA metro alone is pretty questionable. So people who are considering it when their kids are toddlers need to know that and factor it into their decisionmaking. Not only would you need to win the charter lottery, but you’d also have to be OK with your child at 11 walking alone through what is currently one of the more dangerous DC neighborhoods (and until recently, likely walk through a homeless encampment.)

I’m OK with my middle schooler walking with friends there. Heck, I’m even OK making the 5 minute drop off at the metro for a good middle/high school with lots of extracurriculars.

Why don’t you tell us your plan on your kid walking to McKinley or Eastern then. You will be doing a whole lot more driving.

The comparison is not McKinley or Eastern. It’s moving somewhere your kid can take the bus (MoCo) or walk through safer neighborhoods (NW).

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Anonymous wrote:By the time hill kids are in late ES or MS their families are venturing into ward 3 and the burbs a lot. There is less of a need for ward 3 families to to the reverse. Ward 6 has built up an infrastructure for young families but has less for older kids. Schools, sports, the arts, etc.

We are bound for DCI and no need to go anywhere. Lots of clubs, extracurriculars, and sports. Just pick up after the above or kid can take public transportation home. Easy, just like the bigger schools in the burbs with similar offerings.

How is your kid going to get from DCI to the Hill? Will your 6th grader walk throught Brightwood, cross Georgia, then take the Redline to Union Station? I might have sort of planned on this a few years ago, but not right now.

Guys the fact is - beyond ES is a HUGE toss-up on the Hill. Other than "be really rich," there's no guaranteed solution. So you have to really like the neighborhood. Or face moving right when RE prices are cratering, whee!

I’m the PP and we are not on the Hill. We are by H St. Groups of middle school kids take metro to school all the time.

2 minute car ride to NOMA metro and straight red line. Bus at metro to school. Lots of kids do this.

Except you still have to win the lottery to do it. And then pick up your kid at the NOMA metro in the afternoon. Last time I walked somewhere out the NOMA metro the sidewalk was literally covered in a trail of blood for like three blocks.

Nope kid can easily walk home. 2 min drive, 8-10 minute walk. No problem for few middle school kids.

So drama queen. It’s obvious you don’t live in the area or have a clue.

I live in the area which is exactly why I know exactly what I’m talking about.

The idea that an 11 year old is going to walk home from the NOMA metro alone is pretty questionable. So people who are considering it when their kids are toddlers need to know that and factor it into their decisionmaking. Not only would you need to win the charter lottery, but you’d also have to be OK with your child at 11 walking alone through what is currently one of the more dangerous DC neighborhoods (and until recently, likely walk through a homeless encampment.)

I live in the area and you do you. A group, no one said alone, of middle schoolers are fine getting out of the NOMA metro on the REI side and walking down M St. The encampment has long been gone,

LOL! You sound like you would be better living in the burbs if you think NOMA and H st are dangerous areas. You will be driving your kid everywhere if that’s your judgement.

Again - it’s nice that you, personally, worked that out for your 11 year old. OP needs to understand what the actual facts are and assess whether she is comfortable with it and ALL the contingencies it entails. The encampment could come back; and moreover the issue is that it was allowed to stay in the first place. I’m far from a shrinking violet but that stretch by REI is still sketchy.

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Anonymous wrote:By the time hill kids are in late ES or MS their families are venturing into ward 3 and the burbs a lot. There is less of a need for ward 3 families to to the reverse. Ward 6 has built up an infrastructure for young families but has less for older kids. Schools, sports, the arts, etc.

We are bound for DCI and no need to go anywhere. Lots of clubs, extracurriculars, and sports. Just pick up after the above or kid can take public transportation home. Easy, just like the bigger schools in the burbs with similar offerings.

How is your kid going to get from DCI to the Hill? Will your 6th grader walk throught Brightwood, cross Georgia, then take the Redline to Union Station? I might have sort of planned on this a few years ago, but not right now.

Guys the fact is - beyond ES is a HUGE toss-up on the Hill. Other than "be really rich," there's no guaranteed solution. So you have to really like the neighborhood. Or face moving right when RE prices are cratering, whee!

I’m the PP and we are not on the Hill. We are by H St. Groups of middle school kids take metro to school all the time.

2 minute car ride to NOMA metro and straight red line. Bus at metro to school. Lots of kids do this.

Except you still have to win the lottery to do it. And then pick up your kid at the NOMA metro in the afternoon. Last time I walked somewhere out the NOMA metro the sidewalk was literally covered in a trail of blood for like three blocks.

Nope kid can easily walk home. 2 min drive, 8-10 minute walk. No problem for few middle school kids.

So drama queen. It’s obvious you don’t live in the area or have a clue.

I live in the area which is exactly why I know exactly what I’m talking about.

The idea that an 11 year old is going to walk home from the NOMA metro alone is pretty questionable. So people who are considering it when their kids are toddlers need to know that and factor it into their decisionmaking. Not only would you need to win the charter lottery, but you’d also have to be OK with your child at 11 walking alone through what is currently one of the more dangerous DC neighborhoods (and until recently, likely walk through a homeless encampment.)

I’m OK with my middle schooler walking with friends there. Heck, I’m even OK making the 5 minute drop off at the metro for a good middle/high school with lots of extracurriculars.

Why don’t you tell us your plan on your kid walking to McKinley or Eastern then. You will be doing a whole lot more driving.

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Anonymous wrote:"We just budgeted for it when we purchased our home."

Private school tuition is around $40k. So that's 3,300/month. Almost certainly enough to just ... buy a house in a place where you know you can send your kid to public school. And if you have two kids?

Budgeted meaning we purchased well below what we could in anticipation of private school. I agree with the "just buy in a place where you can send kids to public mindset." That's the financially smart thing to do. But I know families that moved for that exact reason and still ended up in private schools. It happens a lot. People get caught up in what all the neighbors are doing so abandoned their original plan Some marriages don't survive that situation. Things are changing rapidly. If you choose to stay just identify the privates and charters that are of interest and when you plan to make the move. The uncertainty is a drag. Just follow your plan and go from there.

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Anonymous wrote:By the time hill kids are in late ES or MS their families are venturing into ward 3 and the burbs a lot. There is less of a need for ward 3 families to to the reverse. Ward 6 has built up an infrastructure for young families but has less for older kids. Schools, sports, the arts, etc.

We are bound for DCI and no need to go anywhere. Lots of clubs, extracurriculars, and sports. Just pick up after the above or kid can take public transportation home. Easy, just like the bigger schools in the burbs with similar offerings.

How is your kid going to get from DCI to the Hill? Will your 6th grader walk throught Brightwood, cross Georgia, then take the Redline to Union Station? I might have sort of planned on this a few years ago, but not right now.

Guys the fact is - beyond ES is a HUGE toss-up on the Hill. Other than "be really rich," there's no guaranteed solution. So you have to really like the neighborhood. Or face moving right when RE prices are cratering, whee!

I’m the PP and we are not on the Hill. We are by H St. Groups of middle school kids take metro to school all the time.

2 minute car ride to NOMA metro and straight red line. Bus at metro to school. Lots of kids do this.

Except you still have to win the lottery to do it. And then pick up your kid at the NOMA metro in the afternoon. Last time I walked somewhere out the NOMA metro the sidewalk was literally covered in a trail of blood for like three blocks.

Nope kid can easily walk home. 2 min drive, 8-10 minute walk. No problem for few middle school kids.

So drama queen. It’s obvious you don’t live in the area or have a clue.

I live in the area which is exactly why I know exactly what I’m talking about.

The idea that an 11 year old is going to walk home from the NOMA metro alone is pretty questionable. So people who are considering it when their kids are toddlers need to know that and factor it into their decisionmaking. Not only would you need to win the charter lottery, but you’d also have to be OK with your child at 11 walking alone through what is currently one of the more dangerous DC neighborhoods (and until recently, likely walk through a homeless encampment.)

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I work in NoMa and bought my house in Bloomingdale before the station was even built. It’s disingenuous to imply that there are no issues around that station. MPDC and the employees at the 7-11 would disagree with you.

You obviously are getting out on the other side and walking thru Eckington and then to Bloomingdale which are less gentrified than NOMA and H St.

Majority of people are not going that way.

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Anonymous wrote:By the time hill kids are in late ES or MS their families are venturing into ward 3 and the burbs a lot. There is less of a need for ward 3 families to to the reverse. Ward 6 has built up an infrastructure for young families but has less for older kids. Schools, sports, the arts, etc.

We are bound for DCI and no need to go anywhere. Lots of clubs, extracurriculars, and sports. Just pick up after the above or kid can take public transportation home. Easy, just like the bigger schools in the burbs with similar offerings.

How is your kid going to get from DCI to the Hill? Will your 6th grader walk throught Brightwood, cross Georgia, then take the Redline to Union Station? I might have sort of planned on this a few years ago, but not right now.

Guys the fact is - beyond ES is a HUGE toss-up on the Hill. Other than "be really rich," there's no guaranteed solution. So you have to really like the neighborhood. Or face moving right when RE prices are cratering, whee!

I’m the PP and we are not on the Hill. We are by H St. Groups of middle school kids take metro to school all the time.

2 minute car ride to NOMA metro and straight red line. Bus at metro to school. Lots of kids do this.

Except you still have to win the lottery to do it. And then pick up your kid at the NOMA metro in the afternoon. Last time I walked somewhere out the NOMA metro the sidewalk was literally covered in a trail of blood for like three blocks.

Nope kid can easily walk home. 2 min drive, 8-10 minute walk. No problem for few middle school kids.

So drama queen. It’s obvious you don’t live in the area or have a clue.

I live in the area which is exactly why I know exactly what I’m talking about.

The idea that an 11 year old is going to walk home from the NOMA metro alone is pretty questionable. So people who are considering it when their kids are toddlers need to know that and factor it into their decisionmaking. Not only would you need to win the charter lottery, but you’d also have to be OK with your child at 11 walking alone through what is currently one of the more dangerous DC neighborhoods (and until recently, likely walk through a homeless encampment.)

I live in the area and you do you. A group, no one said alone, of middle schoolers are fine getting out of the NOMA metro on the REI side and walking down M St. The encampment has long been gone,

LOL! You sound like you would be better living in the burbs if you think NOMA and H st are dangerous areas. You will be driving your kid everywhere if that’s your judgement.

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Anonymous wrote:By the time hill kids are in late ES or MS their families are venturing into ward 3 and the burbs a lot. There is less of a need for ward 3 families to to the reverse. Ward 6 has built up an infrastructure for young families but has less for older kids. Schools, sports, the arts, etc.

We are bound for DCI and no need to go anywhere. Lots of clubs, extracurriculars, and sports. Just pick up after the above or kid can take public transportation home. Easy, just like the bigger schools in the burbs with similar offerings.

How is your kid going to get from DCI to the Hill? Will your 6th grader walk throught Brightwood, cross Georgia, then take the Redline to Union Station? I might have sort of planned on this a few years ago, but not right now.

Guys the fact is - beyond ES is a HUGE toss-up on the Hill. Other than "be really rich," there's no guaranteed solution. So you have to really like the neighborhood. Or face moving right when RE prices are cratering, whee!

I’m the PP and we are not on the Hill. We are by H St. Groups of middle school kids take metro to school all the time.

2 minute car ride to NOMA metro and straight red line. Bus at metro to school. Lots of kids do this.

Except you still have to win the lottery to do it. And then pick up your kid at the NOMA metro in the afternoon. Last time I walked somewhere out the NOMA metro the sidewalk was literally covered in a trail of blood for like three blocks.

Nope kid can easily walk home. 2 min drive, 8-10 minute walk. No problem for few middle school kids.

So drama queen. It’s obvious you don’t live in the area or have a clue.

I live in the area which is exactly why I know exactly what I’m talking about.

The idea that an 11 year old is going to walk home from the NOMA metro alone is pretty questionable. So people who are considering it when their kids are toddlers need to know that and factor it into their decisionmaking. Not only would you need to win the charter lottery, but you’d also have to be OK with your child at 11 walking alone through what is currently one of the more dangerous DC neighborhoods (and until recently, likely walk through a homeless encampment.)

Anonymous wrote:"We just budgeted for it when we purchased our home."

Private school tuition is around $40k. So that's 3,300/month. Almost certainly enough to just ... buy a house in a place where you know you can send your kid to public school. And if you have two kids?

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Anonymous wrote:By the time hill kids are in late ES or MS their families are venturing into ward 3 and the burbs a lot. There is less of a need for ward 3 families to to the reverse. Ward 6 has built up an infrastructure for young families but has less for older kids. Schools, sports, the arts, etc.

We are bound for DCI and no need to go anywhere. Lots of clubs, extracurriculars, and sports. Just pick up after the above or kid can take public transportation home. Easy, just like the bigger schools in the burbs with similar offerings.

How is your kid going to get from DCI to the Hill? Will your 6th grader walk throught Brightwood, cross Georgia, then take the Redline to Union Station? I might have sort of planned on this a few years ago, but not right now.

Guys the fact is - beyond ES is a HUGE toss-up on the Hill. Other than "be really rich," there's no guaranteed solution. So you have to really like the neighborhood. Or face moving right when RE prices are cratering, whee!

I’m the PP and we are not on the Hill. We are by H St. Groups of middle school kids take metro to school all the time.

2 minute car ride to NOMA metro and straight red line. Bus at metro to school. Lots of kids do this.

Except you still have to win the lottery to do it. And then pick up your kid at the NOMA metro in the afternoon. Last time I walked somewhere out the NOMA metro the sidewalk was literally covered in a trail of blood for like three blocks.

Nope kid can easily walk home. 2 min drive, 8-10 minute walk. No problem for few middle school kids.

So drama queen. It’s obvious you don’t live in the area or have a clue.

I live in the area which is exactly why I know exactly what I’m talking about.

The idea that an 11 year old is going to walk home from the NOMA metro alone is pretty questionable. So people who are considering it when their kids are toddlers need to know that and factor it into their decisionmaking. Not only would you need to win the charter lottery, but you’d also have to be OK with your child at 11 walking alone through what is currently one of the more dangerous DC neighborhoods (and until recently, likely walk through a homeless encampment.)

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I work in NoMa and bought my house in Bloomingdale before the station was even built. It’s disingenuous to imply that there are no issues around that station. MPDC and the employees at the 7-11 would disagree with you.