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Anonymous wrote:If you just read the topics on DCUM you would think that DC was a crime riddled, terrible place with trash in the streets.

Then, I look out the window and wave to my neighbor and realize that DC is a wonderful place to live with great people.

I see how people get so worked up when they read forums like this. Like murderers are running through our streets with axes.

It's ridiculous. I love DC and wouldn't want to live anywhere else!

Egad, my kids even attended DC public schools and guess what - they went to college and can read.

Tell us the wonder bread neighborhood that you live in.

NE. Between Lamonds Riggs and Takoma.

Well I live not far from you, and there's trash on my streets and in the alley behind the house. No one on my block sends their kid to the in-boundary DCPS. I like my neighbors but I wouldn't call my neighborhood safe. I certainly wouldn't walk around it after dark. I've lived here for over a decade. My property value has increased rapidly, so that's good, and my commute is ok when wmata wants to function. I like proximity to the parks and the museums, I like food here, I like the people I know.

I could do without the trash, and the crime, and I wish the schools weren't generally terrible once you hit middle school. Other than that, DC is great.

Schools in DC?

“An environment where students can come to school to pop their heads into the classroom to tell the teacher to mark them present, which the teacher is required to do, then proceed to socialize, wander the halls, flirt, fight, walk to the corner store for some food and come back, play games in the gym or atrium, vandalize school property, pop in on the few friends who chose to go to their class, disrupting everyone, and generally live a free and happy life without consequences.”

Link:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/10/23/dc-schools-grading-policy-50-percent-rule/

Sounds great!

It's truly astounding what is acceptable today. What are these kids going to do when they grow up?

What CAN they do?

With schools failing our kids, and parents also failing them, these kids have few option.

Those with a work ethic could wash dishes, mow lawns; work on a garbage truck; maybe basic retail.

The rest will probably end up in prison.

This is a tough one. We live in the Logan/U Street area and love it but no longer have kids at home. We have a close relative in the neighborhood who does have kids, and as they approach middle school the parents don’t know what to do with them. Elementary school has by and large been good (although it’s hard to quantify), but what do you do next? The lottery is such a crapshoot and the middle and high school neighborhood schools are just, well, unacceptable. So, what do you do, move WOTP so your kids can go to Deal and Jackson-Reed? Not only are those neighborhoods super expensive, they’re basically the suburbs anyway. If you’re gonna make that kind of move, there are close-in suburbs (say, Takoma Park) that are more interesting and affordable and with schools with better diversity and equally strong academics.

Anonymous wrote:A lot of the DC hate is just people who feel the need to constantly justify their move to the suburbs.

Mind you, I'm fine with you moving - it's up to you where you want to live. You don't have to justify it to anyone. But a lot of people are insecure, and feel like they have to talk down DC to justify their own actions.

This 100% - we live in DC but went to a picnic to visit friends who had moved out - everyone we met at their HOA event mentioned how they had "grown up" and moved out of DC and acted like we had come from Mars. It was really bizzare

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Anonymous wrote:If you just read the topics on DCUM you would think that DC was a crime riddled, terrible place with trash in the streets.

Then, I look out the window and wave to my neighbor and realize that DC is a wonderful place to live with great people.

I see how people get so worked up when they read forums like this. Like murderers are running through our streets with axes.

It's ridiculous. I love DC and wouldn't want to live anywhere else!

Egad, my kids even attended DC public schools and guess what - they went to college and can read.

Why have none of the Presidents’ children attended any D.C. public schools since the Carter Administration 45 years ago?

Yeah, that's obviously a problem specific to DC. If the White House were in Des Moines, all the Presidents' kids would obviously have gone to Wes Bumf*ck Public High School.

You can't really be that stupid, can you?

Anonymous wrote:If you just read the topics on DCUM you would think that DC was a crime riddled, terrible place with trash in the streets.

Then, I look out the window and wave to my neighbor and realize that DC is a wonderful place to live with great people.

I see how people get so worked up when they read forums like this. Like murderers are running through our streets with axes.

It's ridiculous. I love DC and wouldn't want to live anywhere else!

Egad, my kids even attended DC public schools and guess what - they went to college and can read.

Its DCUM but really DMVUM with tons of suburban posters who are paranoid and biased.

Anonymous wrote:Over the years it seems like the DCUM demographics have really changed. It used to be primarily dc residents. Now it seems to be mostly people who do not live in Dc. So we get to hear a lot of opinions about Dc from people who live in reston or Nebraska etc.

That is what I noticed and do not understand. I read NY newspapers as an example, but I don’t comment on the stories, I don’t live in Brooklyn etc. I live in DC and there are lots of great aspects. The museums, parks, library system, recreation department are wonderful. There are also negative aspects, just like everywhere else.

I have not heard of utopia yet. Not Hawaii, the Caribbean, not anywhere.

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Anonymous wrote:If you just read the topics on DCUM you would think that DC was a crime riddled, terrible place with trash in the streets.

Then, I look out the window and wave to my neighbor and realize that DC is a wonderful place to live with great people.

I see how people get so worked up when they read forums like this. Like murderers are running through our streets with axes.

It's ridiculous. I love DC and wouldn't want to live anywhere else!

Egad, my kids even attended DC public schools and guess what - they went to college and can read.

Tell us the wonder bread neighborhood that you live in.

NE. Between Lamonds Riggs and Takoma.

Well I live not far from you, and there's trash on my streets and in the alley behind the house. No one on my block sends their kid to the in-boundary DCPS. I like my neighbors but I wouldn't call my neighborhood safe. I certainly wouldn't walk around it after dark. I've lived here for over a decade. My property value has increased rapidly, so that's good, and my commute is ok when wmata wants to function. I like proximity to the parks and the museums, I like food here, I like the people I know.

I could do without the trash, and the crime, and I wish the schools weren't generally terrible once you hit middle school. Other than that, DC is great.

Schools in DC?

“An environment where students can come to school to pop their heads into the classroom to tell the teacher to mark them present, which the teacher is required to do, then proceed to socialize, wander the halls, flirt, fight, walk to the corner store for some food and come back, play games in the gym or atrium, vandalize school property, pop in on the few friends who chose to go to their class, disrupting everyone, and generally live a free and happy life without consequences.”

Link:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/10/23/dc-schools-grading-policy-50-percent-rule/

Sounds great!

Obviously, parents need to push back on this. It is ridiculous.

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Anonymous wrote:If you just read the topics on DCUM you would think that DC was a crime riddled, terrible place with trash in the streets.

Then, I look out the window and wave to my neighbor and realize that DC is a wonderful place to live with great people.

I see how people get so worked up when they read forums like this. Like murderers are running through our streets with axes.

It's ridiculous. I love DC and wouldn't want to live anywhere else!

Egad, my kids even attended DC public schools and guess what - they went to college and can read.

Tell us the wonder bread neighborhood that you live in.

NE. Between Lamonds Riggs and Takoma.

Well I live not far from you, and there's trash on my streets and in the alley behind the house. No one on my block sends their kid to the in-boundary DCPS. I like my neighbors but I wouldn't call my neighborhood safe. I certainly wouldn't walk around it after dark. I've lived here for over a decade. My property value has increased rapidly, so that's good, and my commute is ok when wmata wants to function. I like proximity to the parks and the museums, I like food here, I like the people I know.

I could do without the trash, and the crime, and I wish the schools weren't generally terrible once you hit middle school. Other than that, DC is great.

OP here - I live in a newer neighborhood. We have trash, but the neighbors are diligent about picking it up. I feel perfectly safe walking my dog at night.

It’s obvious where you live and those are nice homes. How do you feel about the drug market and corner boys about three blocks down the road?

Haven't seen any and I walk miles around the neighborhood. Sorry.

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Anonymous wrote:If you just read the topics on DCUM you would think that DC was a crime riddled, terrible place with trash in the streets.

Then, I look out the window and wave to my neighbor and realize that DC is a wonderful place to live with great people.

I see how people get so worked up when they read forums like this. Like murderers are running through our streets with axes.

It's ridiculous. I love DC and wouldn't want to live anywhere else!

Egad, my kids even attended DC public schools and guess what - they went to college and can read.

Tell us the wonder bread neighborhood that you live in.

NE. Between Lamonds Riggs and Takoma.

Well I live not far from you, and there's trash on my streets and in the alley behind the house. No one on my block sends their kid to the in-boundary DCPS. I like my neighbors but I wouldn't call my neighborhood safe. I certainly wouldn't walk around it after dark. I've lived here for over a decade. My property value has increased rapidly, so that's good, and my commute is ok when wmata wants to function. I like proximity to the parks and the museums, I like food here, I like the people I know.

I could do without the trash, and the crime, and I wish the schools weren't generally terrible once you hit middle school. Other than that, DC is great.

Schools in DC?

“An environment where students can come to school to pop their heads into the classroom to tell the teacher to mark them present, which the teacher is required to do, then proceed to socialize, wander the halls, flirt, fight, walk to the corner store for some food and come back, play games in the gym or atrium, vandalize school property, pop in on the few friends who chose to go to their class, disrupting everyone, and generally live a free and happy life without consequences.”

Link:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2022/10/23/dc-schools-grading-policy-50-percent-rule/

Sounds great!

It's truly astounding what is acceptable today. What are these kids going to do when they grow up?