“Improve themselves”? Schools are only as good as the parents that send their kids to them. The best teachers and administrators can only make so much of a difference. I’ve seen this with both my kids going to two different city schools. This is the falacy of public education. The main factor are the parents. Schools can do little to move the needle beyond what the home environment provides.

Not mad but I do think that charters inhibit the betterment of neighborhood schools.I send my kid to a neighbor school and many highly engaged neighbors see theirs to charters. I’d love to have the neighborhood school have those engaged parents and their PTA fund raising ability helping out DCPS and all those kids who’s parents don’t “GAF”.

So you are saying those with first hand knowledge of DCPS should not contribute?

Yeah. charters skim off the kids with parents that care enough to apply and/or lottery.

Rule should be you can only post on this thread if you have a kid in DCPS, and I’m not talking about the opt out charter schools.

O street museum

https://www.arcgis.com/apps/MapSeries/index.html?appid=825617c96aff4db59f2f216e83b9d713

Here is that article and map for the Park.

Columbia heights had some very stately houses as many of the farmsteads were being developed between 1900-1920. The Columbia Heights Citizens’ Association put out a pamphlet in 1904 documenting many of these homes and even alluded that the White House might move uptown to the area.

Malcom X park was a pretty poor neighborhood before the land was seized to create the park. There is a fantastic website out there that goes almost house by house on the (soon to be) displaced residents.