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Anonymous wrote:Everyone: please write back when your kids are about 9 or so. I mean it. If your kids' school day still includes a nap or mandatory rest period, lovely. I mean it, you're probably a lovely person. I have no doubt your school does a solid job with center time and the plastic groceries.

But you're not equipped to talk about how well charter X or dcps school Y does with, say, national math benchmarks. Or prep for a middle school STEM program.

We'll see how I feel when my kid is nine. But right now I can tell you that my late birthday three year old who could barely hold a crayon in August when he started school can now WRITE. He is on the cusp of READING (and can read and spell out simple words). He can add and subtract. He could do none of those things before he started school. He amazes me every day telling me what he has learned at school in four short months.

He's not four until next September and his teachers have taught him to read and write, already. I am stunned. It's not all "center time and plastic groceries". With education like this we'll definitely be staying in DC.

Anonymous wrote:Everyone: please write back when your kids are about 9 or so. I mean it. If your kids' school day still includes a nap or mandatory rest period, lovely. I mean it, you're probably a lovely person. I have no doubt your school does a solid job with center time and the plastic groceries.

But you're not equipped to talk about how well charter X or dcps school Y does with, say, national math benchmarks. Or prep for a middle school STEM program.

Anonymous wrote:

Everyone: please write back when your kids are about 9 or so. I mean it. If your kids' school day still includes a nap or mandatory rest period, lovely. I mean it, you're probably a lovely person. I have no doubt your school does a solid job with center time and the plastic groceries.

This is a completely incomprehensible post. What were you trying to say?

Anonymous wrote:Everyone: please write back when your kids are about 9 or so. I mean it. If your kids' school day still includes a nap or mandatory rest period, lovely. I mean it, you're probably a lovely person. I have no doubt your school does a solid job with center time and the plastic groceries.

But you're not equipped to talk about how well charter X or dcps school Y does with, say, national math benchmarks. Or prep for a middle school STEM program.

Everyone: please write back when your kids are about 9 or so. I mean it. If your kids' school day still includes a nap or mandatory rest period, lovely. I mean it, you're probably a lovely person. I have no doubt your school does a solid job with center time and the plastic groceries.

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Anonymous wrote:I haven't been following this thread closely, but OP should know that Bloomingdale has a fairly high crime rate compared to much of the city. I wouldn't want to live there with kids.

Link? Because Adams Morgan and Dupont Circle definitely have more crime.

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Granted, that is what cities are counting on these days to make their comebacks -- a churn of yuppies that leave before their kids hit ES and of empty-nesters. It is doable and sustainable. It's just not what I prefer.

Yep! And with the exception of the woman artist who has 3 children in Bloomingdale -- and maybe her, too -- I can pretty much guarantee that NONE of the District PPs on the previous 10 pages have children over the age of 6.

Which is fine, I'll cop to having had a toddler myself at one point

But it's sort of disingenuous or perhaps even lying by admission to insist that your little pocket of hipster DC is "awesome for families!!!!!!!" and stay silent on the fact that your schools really suck out loud. And that includes all but 4-5 charters, too.

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Anonymous wrote:I haven't been following this thread closely, but OP should know that Bloomingdale has a fairly high crime rate compared to much of the city. I wouldn't want to live there with kids.

And yet our neighborhood is FULL of children and there is a bigger baby boom here in the last year than I have seen since I got here - us included. People are MOVING here and having babies. We have three kids here and most families here are on their second or third. To each their own...

I am curious. What's your options for schools ?

Gentrifiers are betting on charters. DCPS in the area is grim even at ES level: Seaton, Thomson, Langley. For some reason much of Bloomingdale also has a feed into Garrison ES, which is arguably a little better, but this is slated for closure.

And what are your options if you dont get a spot in a charter ?

Anonymous wrote:I haven't been following this thread closely, but OP should know that Bloomingdale has a fairly high crime rate compared to much of the city. I wouldn't want to live there with kids.

Anonymous wrote:I like Bloomingdale for all the reasons people cite here, but the access to public transit is not great. I don't love H street for the same reason. 11th in Columbia Heights is much better in that regard.

But OP is from LA, so being chained to a car may not bother them

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Anonymous wrote:

Granted, that is what cities are counting on these days to make their comebacks -- a churn of yuppies that leave before their kids hit ES and of empty-nesters. It is doable and sustainable. It's just not what I prefer.

Yep! And with the exception of the woman artist who has 3 children in Bloomingdale -- and maybe her, too -- I can pretty much guarantee that NONE of the District PPs on the previous 10 pages have children over the age of 6.

Which is fine, I'll cop to having had a toddler myself at one point

But it's sort of disingenuous or perhaps even lying by admission to insist that your little pocket of hipster DC is "awesome for families!!!!!!!" and stay silent on the fact that your schools really suck out loud. And that includes all but 4-5 charters, too.

woman artist in Bloomingdale here - I might not be the only one posting that fits that description but yes I have three kids and one of them is older than 6 He is in DCPS and doing great. Charters are fine by us for the little ones when it comes time. There are so many families doing this we are not daunted. So no, I dont feel like I am lying by omission. There are enough of us in the neighborhood that feel this way, we are actually in good company. NONE of the families I know in this neighborhood with small kids are planning on leaving as they enter ES. We truly feel we are building a community here - this isnt a pit stop and we HAVE thought about it. We just dont think like you do I guess. But I dont see why that is so hard to believe honestly.

Anonymous wrote:I'd highly recommend Columbia Heights around the 11th street corridor. there are a lot of people with young kids, great places to eat, and better walkability than bloomingdate, petworth, or takoma park (other places mentioned here).

am surprised to see all the bloomingdale posts (sock puppeting?!). It just doesn't seem like a great place to live, given the proximity to north capital street, crime, and general sketchiness. i sure wouldn't move there just for big bear and a couple other places to go drink.

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Granted, that is what cities are counting on these days to make their comebacks -- a churn of yuppies that leave before their kids hit ES and of empty-nesters. It is doable and sustainable. It's just not what I prefer.

Yep! And with the exception of the woman artist who has 3 children in Bloomingdale -- and maybe her, too -- I can pretty much guarantee that NONE of the District PPs on the previous 10 pages have children over the age of 6.

Which is fine, I'll cop to having had a toddler myself at one point

But it's sort of disingenuous or perhaps even lying by admission to insist that your little pocket of hipster DC is "awesome for families!!!!!!!" and stay silent on the fact that your schools really suck out loud. And that includes all but 4-5 charters, too.