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We live near @stocktoe just above Brookland in North Michigan Park. And there is zero chance we would send our now-9-month-old daughter to the neighborhood school. Our time in DC (somewhat sadly) has a definite expiration date - her enrollment in kindergarten. The charter school / out of-boundary-application system is (1) too uncertain and (2) a freakin' Kafkaesque nightmare that I will have no part of. Whether this means we move to the 'burbs or high tail it back to California remains to be seen. (Our budget does not permit a move into NW or Cap Hill, and then we'd still have the issue of middle/high school.) California schools have their own problems, but even CA's continually deteriorating public school system looks good compared to DC.

If the answer to fixing DCPS was easy & obvious - "starve the beast," scrap the whole system, or whatever commenters propose - it would get done. The problems are not all due to the unions, or the type of students, etc. - stop fooling yourself. It's far more complicated. I don't know what the solution is, but I'm not sticking around to use my kid as a guinea pig.

by NorCalinDC on Jul 17, 2012 2:51 pm • link • report

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