I think this modern house pulls it off better than the last because its sitting between what looks like two different style houses and one is hidden by a tree anyways. I don’t really care for the fence, but I guess if I lived across from a high school I would want something like that as a deterant.

I think I would hate to live across from a high school or near one.

I guess if that’s all you can afford…?

Theoretically, I don’t think it would be too bad to live near a high school. I’m at work when the school day starts and ends. Generally there are more exciting things to do than hang around a school building, so the kids would to the winds after class. And during the summer, it is shut up and quiet, or quietER, at least. In the city there’d be few buses to cause noise picking up and dropping off kids.

But I say “theoretically” because I don’t like near one, so I don’t have direct experience.

Deciding is easy. I wouldn’t.

is that fence really as high as it looks — or is the perspective weird and it’s really just waist high?

not a huge fan of the stucco job — looks sort of like the detailing you’d see on a taco bell.

Banneker is a DC public school that functions like a gifted and talented academic high school. It also has a small enrollment which cuts down on the amount of teenage foot traffic. Not only isn’t it Cardozo, it isn’t Wilson, Roosevelt or Coolidge. The last two are neighborhhood high schools.

Jassindc, where did you live in San Francisco?

Banneker is actually my alma mater . . . it’s pretty small, 400 kids enrolled total, usually. You have to take an exam to get in; it’s one of the three city-wide magnet schools. Banneker, School Without Walls (which an experiential learning program) and Duke Ellington School for the Arts are the troika. 95% of the graduates go to college, not necessarily the Ivies, but definitely good schools.

The other side of the street was always off-limits. Besides being closely monitored by staff when we were off-site, we were always supposed to be “good neighbors” to the residents of the Pleasant Plains (it’s not actually in Columbia Heights, folks). Plus those houses are up loooootttttts of steps, so even if we wanted to bother them, we would, as someone else pointed out, get awfully winded. It’s the Howard Students who always seemed to be parked on that part of Euclid. And were getting booted, too, on the regular.