Bowser throws shade at Lafayette parents

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Anonymous wrote:PP again but calling this situation ‘extremely inconvenient’ is an indication of how truly lucky you are in life. Please take in that fact. I can give you a lot of other scenarios that are actually ‘extremely inconvenient’ as a comparison.

What makes you think the poster doesn't know they are lucky in life? Because they don't want to be inconvenienced in this particular situation if they don't have to be?

DP but even calling the a 10 minute commute to dedicated free preschool created by the City for your kids in response to your complaints "extremely inconvenient" shows that the PPP is lacking some necessary perspective.

One of the PPs and the poster said ‘extremely inconvenient’ not just ‘inconvenient’. To me the word extremely would never apply to a 7 minute drive to my kid’s school. Lafayette parents don’t seem to realize how entitled they sound.

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Anonymous wrote:I find it odd how dismissive people are of the prospect of driving all the way across the park to get to a public school. This makes no sense to me - one of the major selling points of public school is its convenience. We're a Lafayette family and love the school, though we are switching to private for various reasons. But we live within two blocks of Lafayette and I can say with 100% certainty that I would not use a school that's a 10-15 minute drive in the wrong direction (i.e., away from my office, which is downtown). I don't need or want any extra time commitments in the morning before work. I recognize that in this case it means the school didn't get extra space, but a solution that is extremely inconvenient is not really a solution at all, and dismissing this legitimate logistical concern as snobbery or prejudice shows lazy thinking.

"Extremely inconvenient" is almost laughably hyperbolic. It would have involved nine months of very short travel, and I'm going to guess DCPS would have provided a bus that picked up and dropped off from Lafayette itself, as it did for other schools to take kids to swing spaces during renovations. Hardly a burden.

Each new excuse Lafayette parents dish out for why they didn't want this scenario makes them look even more clownishly privileged.

I actually don't think it's the biggest deal to not have a larger public pre-k in one of the most affluent areas. "Inconvenient" means inconvenient, not impossible or catastrophic. My point is that saying you don't want this because it's inconvenient isn't cover for something more nefarious. I, personally, would not use a school that is miles in the wrong direction and would instead use a private preschool (of which there are plenty in CCDC). I would feel the same if I lived eotp and took North Capitol to work, as I used to, and was zoned for Lafayette.

Actually there aren’t “many” private preschool options IN CCDC. There are places like CCBC but even that is 5-12 min drive depending on what part of CC you’re in. Then a commute downtown would look the same as a drop off at free Military Road drop off then southbound downtown. But something about an East then south commute makes people allergic compared to a west then south commute.

Because it means crossing town twice, at rush hour. What road on the east side is as convenient as Connecticut for getting to K St/Farragut North? There isn't one.

Why can’t you go down 16th?

Because it has a million stop lights and fewer lanes, and CT goes basically directly to my office.

This series of quotes brought to you by privilege. What I wouldn’t give to see a witness at a public hearing say that the school 12 mins away was too inconvenient bc there are extra stop lights

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Anonymous wrote:I find it odd how dismissive people are of the prospect of driving all the way across the park to get to a public school. This makes no sense to me - one of the major selling points of public school is its convenience. We're a Lafayette family and love the school, though we are switching to private for various reasons. But we live within two blocks of Lafayette and I can say with 100% certainty that I would not use a school that's a 10-15 minute drive in the wrong direction (i.e., away from my office, which is downtown). I don't need or want any extra time commitments in the morning before work. I recognize that in this case it means the school didn't get extra space, but a solution that is extremely inconvenient is not really a solution at all, and dismissing this legitimate logistical concern as snobbery or prejudice shows lazy thinking.

"Extremely inconvenient" is almost laughably hyperbolic. It would have involved nine months of very short travel, and I'm going to guess DCPS would have provided a bus that picked up and dropped off from Lafayette itself, as it did for other schools to take kids to swing spaces during renovations. Hardly a burden.

Each new excuse Lafayette parents dish out for why they didn't want this scenario makes them look even more clownishly privileged.

I actually don't think it's the biggest deal to not have a larger public pre-k in one of the most affluent areas. "Inconvenient" means inconvenient, not impossible or catastrophic. My point is that saying you don't want this because it's inconvenient isn't cover for something more nefarious. I, personally, would not use a school that is miles in the wrong direction and would instead use a private preschool (of which there are plenty in CCDC). I would feel the same if I lived eotp and took North Capitol to work, as I used to, and was zoned for Lafayette.

Actually there aren’t “many” private preschool options IN CCDC. There are places like CCBC but even that is 5-12 min drive depending on what part of CC you’re in. Then a commute downtown would look the same as a drop off at free Military Road drop off then southbound downtown. But something about an East then south commute makes people allergic compared to a west then south commute.

Because it means crossing town twice, at rush hour. What road on the east side is as convenient as Connecticut for getting to K St/Farragut North? There isn't one.

Why can’t you go down 16th?

Because it has a million stop lights and fewer lanes, and CT goes basically directly to my office.

This series of quotes brought to you by privilege. What I wouldn’t give to see a witness at a public hearing say that the school 12 mins away was too inconvenient bc there are extra stop lights

Plus there is a 90% chance PP is a remote worker and not working downtown.

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Anonymous wrote:I find it odd how dismissive people are of the prospect of driving all the way across the park to get to a public school. This makes no sense to me - one of the major selling points of public school is its convenience. We're a Lafayette family and love the school, though we are switching to private for various reasons. But we live within two blocks of Lafayette and I can say with 100% certainty that I would not use a school that's a 10-15 minute drive in the wrong direction (i.e., away from my office, which is downtown). I don't need or want any extra time commitments in the morning before work. I recognize that in this case it means the school didn't get extra space, but a solution that is extremely inconvenient is not really a solution at all, and dismissing this legitimate logistical concern as snobbery or prejudice shows lazy thinking.

"Extremely inconvenient" is almost laughably hyperbolic. It would have involved nine months of very short travel, and I'm going to guess DCPS would have provided a bus that picked up and dropped off from Lafayette itself, as it did for other schools to take kids to swing spaces during renovations. Hardly a burden.

Each new excuse Lafayette parents dish out for why they didn't want this scenario makes them look even more clownishly privileged.

I actually don't think it's the biggest deal to not have a larger public pre-k in one of the most affluent areas. "Inconvenient" means inconvenient, not impossible or catastrophic. My point is that saying you don't want this because it's inconvenient isn't cover for something more nefarious. I, personally, would not use a school that is miles in the wrong direction and would instead use a private preschool (of which there are plenty in CCDC). I would feel the same if I lived eotp and took North Capitol to work, as I used to, and was zoned for Lafayette.

Actually there aren’t “many” private preschool options IN CCDC. There are places like CCBC but even that is 5-12 min drive depending on what part of CC you’re in. Then a commute downtown would look the same as a drop off at free Military Road drop off then southbound downtown. But something about an East then south commute makes people allergic compared to a west then south commute.

Because it means crossing town twice, at rush hour. What road on the east side is as convenient as Connecticut for getting to K St/Farragut North? There isn't one.

Why can’t you go down 16th?

Because it has a million stop lights and fewer lanes, and CT goes basically directly to my office.

Are you the same PP who is going private? My kids started in private schools and I never had an opinion about DCPS because we didn’t attend. Why would you chime in with your opinion when it has zero affect on your life?

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Anonymous wrote:PP again but calling this situation ‘extremely inconvenient’ is an indication of how truly lucky you are in life. Please take in that fact. I can give you a lot of other scenarios that are actually ‘extremely inconvenient’ as a comparison.

What makes you think the poster doesn't know they are lucky in life? Because they don't want to be inconvenienced in this particular situation if they don't have to be?

DP but even calling the a 10 minute commute to dedicated free preschool created by the City for your kids in response to your complaints "extremely inconvenient" shows that the PPP is lacking some necessary perspective.

One of the PPs and the poster said ‘extremely inconvenient’ not just ‘inconvenient’. To me the word extremely would never apply to a 7 minute drive to my kid’s school. Lafayette parents don’t seem to realize how entitled they sound.

Never mind how many Ward 7 and 8 parents are "inconvenienced" to get their kids to the best charter and DCPS schools in areas complete outside of their Ward.

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Anonymous wrote:PP again but calling this situation ‘extremely inconvenient’ is an indication of how truly lucky you are in life. Please take in that fact. I can give you a lot of other scenarios that are actually ‘extremely inconvenient’ as a comparison.

Seriously. My kids' ward 5 charter is 15 minutes away from my home so I spend an hour a day driving my kids there and picking them up. And I'm quite grateful for the privilege since my zoned school is one of the worst in the city.

I certainly don't consider the driving I do "extremely inconvenient." I'm grateful to do it because my previous drive to an inferior charter was 25 minutes each way.

The way I see it, Bowser caters far too much to the WOTP crowd. Not too little.

Look at their streets compared to the ones in my neighborhood.
Their policing.
Trash pick up at the Rec centers on that side of the park.
Maintenance of the swimming pools WOTP vs EOTP. The list goes on.

I'm all for Bowser calling out the casual racism that rules the thoughts of many WOTP.

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Anonymous wrote:I find it odd how dismissive people are of the prospect of driving all the way across the park to get to a public school. This makes no sense to me - one of the major selling points of public school is its convenience. We're a Lafayette family and love the school, though we are switching to private for various reasons. But we live within two blocks of Lafayette and I can say with 100% certainty that I would not use a school that's a 10-15 minute drive in the wrong direction (i.e., away from my office, which is downtown). I don't need or want any extra time commitments in the morning before work. I recognize that in this case it means the school didn't get extra space, but a solution that is extremely inconvenient is not really a solution at all, and dismissing this legitimate logistical concern as snobbery or prejudice shows lazy thinking.

"Extremely inconvenient" is almost laughably hyperbolic. It would have involved nine months of very short travel, and I'm going to guess DCPS would have provided a bus that picked up and dropped off from Lafayette itself, as it did for other schools to take kids to swing spaces during renovations. Hardly a burden.

Each new excuse Lafayette parents dish out for why they didn't want this scenario makes them look even more clownishly privileged.

I actually don't think it's the biggest deal to not have a larger public pre-k in one of the most affluent areas. "Inconvenient" means inconvenient, not impossible or catastrophic. My point is that saying you don't want this because it's inconvenient isn't cover for something more nefarious. I, personally, would not use a school that is miles in the wrong direction and would instead use a private preschool (of which there are plenty in CCDC). I would feel the same if I lived eotp and took North Capitol to work, as I used to, and was zoned for Lafayette.

Actually there aren’t “many” private preschool options IN CCDC. There are places like CCBC but even that is 5-12 min drive depending on what part of CC you’re in. Then a commute downtown would look the same as a drop off at free Military Road drop off then southbound downtown. But something about an East then south commute makes people allergic compared to a west then south commute.

Because it means crossing town twice, at rush hour. What road on the east side is as convenient as Connecticut for getting to K St/Farragut North? There isn't one.

Why can’t you go down 16th?

Because it has a million stop lights and fewer lanes, and CT goes basically directly to my office.

Are you the same PP who is going private? My kids started in private schools and I never had an opinion about DCPS because we didn’t attend. Why would you chime in with your opinion when it has zero affect on your life?

I am making a specific point, which is that people expressing complaints about the logistics of this are assumed to have ulterior reasons for not wanting the particular location offered, but many of them are probably being honest about their concerns. I am willing to pay a premium for convenience, as are others, so for me the logistics of traveling cross town are a dealbreaker. Obviously this is a privileged perspective. And I have thought about this because we have a kid at Lafayette currently and were very close to choosing it going forward.

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Anonymous wrote:I find it odd how dismissive people are of the prospect of driving all the way across the park to get to a public school. This makes no sense to me - one of the major selling points of public school is its convenience. We're a Lafayette family and love the school, though we are switching to private for various reasons. But we live within two blocks of Lafayette and I can say with 100% certainty that I would not use a school that's a 10-15 minute drive in the wrong direction (i.e., away from my office, which is downtown). I don't need or want any extra time commitments in the morning before work. I recognize that in this case it means the school didn't get extra space, but a solution that is extremely inconvenient is not really a solution at all, and dismissing this legitimate logistical concern as snobbery or prejudice shows lazy thinking.

"Extremely inconvenient" is almost laughably hyperbolic. It would have involved nine months of very short travel, and I'm going to guess DCPS would have provided a bus that picked up and dropped off from Lafayette itself, as it did for other schools to take kids to swing spaces during renovations. Hardly a burden.

Each new excuse Lafayette parents dish out for why they didn't want this scenario makes them look even more clownishly privileged.

I actually don't think it's the biggest deal to not have a larger public pre-k in one of the most affluent areas. "Inconvenient" means inconvenient, not impossible or catastrophic. My point is that saying you don't want this because it's inconvenient isn't cover for something more nefarious. I, personally, would not use a school that is miles in the wrong direction and would instead use a private preschool (of which there are plenty in CCDC). I would feel the same if I lived eotp and took North Capitol to work, as I used to, and was zoned for Lafayette.

Actually there aren’t “many” private preschool options IN CCDC. There are places like CCBC but even that is 5-12 min drive depending on what part of CC you’re in. Then a commute downtown would look the same as a drop off at free Military Road drop off then southbound downtown. But something about an East then south commute makes people allergic compared to a west then south commute.

Because it means crossing town twice, at rush hour. What road on the east side is as convenient as Connecticut for getting to K St/Farragut North? There isn't one.

Why can’t you go down 16th?

Because it has a million stop lights and fewer lanes, and CT goes basically directly to my office.

Are you the same PP who is going private? My kids started in private schools and I never had an opinion about DCPS because we didn’t attend. Why would you chime in with your opinion when it has zero affect on your life?

I am making a specific point, which is that people expressing complaints about the logistics of this are assumed to have ulterior reasons for not wanting the particular location offered, but many of them are probably being honest about their concerns. I am willing to pay a premium for convenience, as are others, so for me the logistics of traveling cross town are a dealbreaker. Obviously this is a privileged perspective. And I have thought about this because we have a kid at Lafayette currently and were very close to choosing it going forward.

I partially agree with the above. I am Lafayette parent and didn't want Lafayette PK4 to have the Military Rd ELC building because I wanted to at least have a chance at a free and extremely convenient PK4 spot for my kid. If I had to commute across the park anyway I didn't need an entire Lafayette-only building; there are many perfectly fine PK options across the park. Other parents and myself felt that it is MORE classist to have a whole building reserved for Lafayette across the park when there's no reason at all to do it, since there are so many other PK options nearby the Military Rd. building. The attractive part of Lafayette PK for us is just the location of Lafayette. My receipts here are that I have a PK kid, am zoned for Lafayette, and lotteried for and enrolled in Military Rd ELC! We ended up getting off the waitlist for Lafayette late in summer and went there but would have been fine with Military Rd; would have just been a little more hassle to get to.

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Anonymous wrote:PP again but calling this situation ‘extremely inconvenient’ is an indication of how truly lucky you are in life. Please take in that fact. I can give you a lot of other scenarios that are actually ‘extremely inconvenient’ as a comparison.

Seriously. My kids' ward 5 charter is 15 minutes away from my home so I spend an hour a day driving my kids there and picking them up. And I'm quite grateful for the privilege since my zoned school is one of the worst in the city.

I certainly don't consider the driving I do "extremely inconvenient." I'm grateful to do it because my previous drive to an inferior charter was 25 minutes each way.

The way I see it, Bowser caters far too much to the WOTP crowd. Not too little.

Look at their streets compared to the ones in my neighborhood.
Their policing.
Trash pick up at the Rec centers on that side of the park.
Maintenance of the swimming pools WOTP vs EOTP. The list goes on.

I'm all for Bowser calling out the casual racism that rules the thoughts of many WOTP.

Please stop conflating racism with classicism. Also not racism: (1) preferring not be inconvenienced (pretty sure the reaction would have been the same if they were offered a building in the palisades or kent). (2) not wanting additional kids in an already overcrowded school.

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Anonymous wrote:PP again but calling this situation ‘extremely inconvenient’ is an indication of how truly lucky you are in life. Please take in that fact. I can give you a lot of other scenarios that are actually ‘extremely inconvenient’ as a comparison.

Seriously. My kids' ward 5 charter is 15 minutes away from my home so I spend an hour a day driving my kids there and picking them up. And I'm quite grateful for the privilege since my zoned school is one of the worst in the city.

I certainly don't consider the driving I do "extremely inconvenient." I'm grateful to do it because my previous drive to an inferior charter was 25 minutes each way.

The way I see it, Bowser caters far too much to the WOTP crowd. Not too little.

Look at their streets compared to the ones in my neighborhood.
Their policing.
Trash pick up at the Rec centers on that side of the park.
Maintenance of the swimming pools WOTP vs EOTP. The list goes on.

I'm all for Bowser calling out the casual racism that rules the thoughts of many WOTP.

Please stop conflating racism with classicism. Also not racism: (1) preferring not be inconvenienced (pretty sure the reaction would have been the same if they were offered a building in the palisades or kent). (2) not wanting additional kids in an already overcrowded school.

Please stop pretending that classism (not classicism, FYI) is not profoundly intertwined with racism, particularly in the DC public school system. And also, to the bolded: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. The privileged twit upthread is already on record that the problem isn't the distance, it's driving the "wrong way" across town. I'm sure she'd shuttle Avery to Kent without a whimper.

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Anonymous wrote:I find it odd how dismissive people are of the prospect of driving all the way across the park to get to a public school. This makes no sense to me - one of the major selling points of public school is its convenience. We're a Lafayette family and love the school, though we are switching to private for various reasons. But we live within two blocks of Lafayette and I can say with 100% certainty that I would not use a school that's a 10-15 minute drive in the wrong direction (i.e., away from my office, which is downtown). I don't need or want any extra time commitments in the morning before work. I recognize that in this case it means the school didn't get extra space, but a solution that is extremely inconvenient is not really a solution at all, and dismissing this legitimate logistical concern as snobbery or prejudice shows lazy thinking.

"Extremely inconvenient" is almost laughably hyperbolic. It would have involved nine months of very short travel, and I'm going to guess DCPS would have provided a bus that picked up and dropped off from Lafayette itself, as it did for other schools to take kids to swing spaces during renovations. Hardly a burden.

Each new excuse Lafayette parents dish out for why they didn't want this scenario makes them look even more clownishly privileged.

I actually don't think it's the biggest deal to not have a larger public pre-k in one of the most affluent areas. "Inconvenient" means inconvenient, not impossible or catastrophic. My point is that saying you don't want this because it's inconvenient isn't cover for something more nefarious. I, personally, would not use a school that is miles in the wrong direction and would instead use a private preschool (of which there are plenty in CCDC). I would feel the same if I lived eotp and took North Capitol to work, as I used to, and was zoned for Lafayette.

Actually there aren’t “many” private preschool options IN CCDC. There are places like CCBC but even that is 5-12 min drive depending on what part of CC you’re in. Then a commute downtown would look the same as a drop off at free Military Road drop off then southbound downtown. But something about an East then south commute makes people allergic compared to a west then south commute.

Because it means crossing town twice, at rush hour. What road on the east side is as convenient as Connecticut for getting to K St/Farragut North? There isn't one.

Why can’t you go down 16th?

Because it has a million stop lights and fewer lanes, and CT goes basically directly to my office.

This series of quotes brought to you by privilege. What I wouldn’t give to see a witness at a public hearing say that the school 12 mins away was too inconvenient bc there are extra stop lights

+1

Also PP is going to argue that Connecticut avenue doesn’t have ‘a million stop lights’?

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Anonymous wrote:I find it odd how dismissive people are of the prospect of driving all the way across the park to get to a public school. This makes no sense to me - one of the major selling points of public school is its convenience. We're a Lafayette family and love the school, though we are switching to private for various reasons. But we live within two blocks of Lafayette and I can say with 100% certainty that I would not use a school that's a 10-15 minute drive in the wrong direction (i.e., away from my office, which is downtown). I don't need or want any extra time commitments in the morning before work. I recognize that in this case it means the school didn't get extra space, but a solution that is extremely inconvenient is not really a solution at all, and dismissing this legitimate logistical concern as snobbery or prejudice shows lazy thinking.

"Extremely inconvenient" is almost laughably hyperbolic. It would have involved nine months of very short travel, and I'm going to guess DCPS would have provided a bus that picked up and dropped off from Lafayette itself, as it did for other schools to take kids to swing spaces during renovations. Hardly a burden.

Each new excuse Lafayette parents dish out for why they didn't want this scenario makes them look even more clownishly privileged.

I actually don't think it's the biggest deal to not have a larger public pre-k in one of the most affluent areas. "Inconvenient" means inconvenient, not impossible or catastrophic. My point is that saying you don't want this because it's inconvenient isn't cover for something more nefarious. I, personally, would not use a school that is miles in the wrong direction and would instead use a private preschool (of which there are plenty in CCDC). I would feel the same if I lived eotp and took North Capitol to work, as I used to, and was zoned for Lafayette.

Actually there aren’t “many” private preschool options IN CCDC. There are places like CCBC but even that is 5-12 min drive depending on what part of CC you’re in. Then a commute downtown would look the same as a drop off at free Military Road drop off then southbound downtown. But something about an East then south commute makes people allergic compared to a west then south commute.

Because it means crossing town twice, at rush hour. What road on the east side is as convenient as Connecticut for getting to K St/Farragut North? There isn't one.

Why can’t you go down 16th?

Because it has a million stop lights and fewer lanes, and CT goes basically directly to my office.

Are you the same PP who is going private? My kids started in private schools and I never had an opinion about DCPS because we didn’t attend. Why would you chime in with your opinion when it has zero affect on your life?

I am making a specific point, which is that people expressing complaints about the logistics of this are assumed to have ulterior reasons for not wanting the particular location offered, but many of them are probably being honest about their concerns. I am willing to pay a premium for convenience, as are others, so for me the logistics of traveling cross town are a dealbreaker. Obviously this is a privileged perspective. And I have thought about this because we have a kid at Lafayette currently and were very close to choosing it going forward.

I partially agree with the above. I am Lafayette parent and didn't want Lafayette PK4 to have the Military Rd ELC building because I wanted to at least have a chance at a free and extremely convenient PK4 spot for my kid. If I had to commute across the park anyway I didn't need an entire Lafayette-only building; there are many perfectly fine PK options across the park. Other parents and myself felt that it is MORE classist to have a whole building reserved for Lafayette across the park when there's no reason at all to do it, since there are so many other PK options nearby the Military Rd. building. The attractive part of Lafayette PK for us is just the location of Lafayette. My receipts here are that I have a PK kid, am zoned for Lafayette, and lotteried for and enrolled in Military Rd ELC! We ended up getting off the waitlist for Lafayette late in summer and went there but would have been fine with Military Rd; would have just been a little more hassle to get to.

+1, exactly. I think things should just stay the way they are for the reasons you stated. Except that after reading this thread, I kind of hope that Lafayette gets the building that's not for sale just so I can come back here to see people's heads explode.

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Anonymous wrote:PP again but calling this situation ‘extremely inconvenient’ is an indication of how truly lucky you are in life. Please take in that fact. I can give you a lot of other scenarios that are actually ‘extremely inconvenient’ as a comparison.

Seriously. My kids' ward 5 charter is 15 minutes away from my home so I spend an hour a day driving my kids there and picking them up. And I'm quite grateful for the privilege since my zoned school is one of the worst in the city.

I certainly don't consider the driving I do "extremely inconvenient." I'm grateful to do it because my previous drive to an inferior charter was 25 minutes each way.

The way I see it, Bowser caters far too much to the WOTP crowd. Not too little.

Look at their streets compared to the ones in my neighborhood.
Their policing.
Trash pick up at the Rec centers on that side of the park.
Maintenance of the swimming pools WOTP vs EOTP. The list goes on.

I'm all for Bowser calling out the casual racism that rules the thoughts of many WOTP.

Please stop conflating racism with classicism. Also not racism: (1) preferring not be inconvenienced (pretty sure the reaction would have been the same if they were offered a building in the palisades or kent). (2) not wanting additional kids in an already overcrowded school.

Please stop pretending that classism (not classicism, FYI) is not profoundly intertwined with racism, particularly in the DC public school system. And also, to the bolded: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. The privileged twit upthread is already on record that the problem isn't the distance, it's driving the "wrong way" across town. I'm sure she'd shuttle Avery to Kent without a whimper.

I'm the PP you're referring to and there is absolutely no chance in hell I'd commute to Palisades or Kent for school, for the same reason I don't want to go across the park: it's inconvenient (even more so, actually - I'd much rather go to Military Rd than either of the above). I have three kids, an extremely demanding job, and a partner who travels for work every week. I need my mornings to be as easy and streamlined as possible. As I have acknowledged, it's certainly a privileged perspective, but it has nothing to do with classism or racism.

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Anonymous wrote:PP again but calling this situation ‘extremely inconvenient’ is an indication of how truly lucky you are in life. Please take in that fact. I can give you a lot of other scenarios that are actually ‘extremely inconvenient’ as a comparison.

Seriously. My kids' ward 5 charter is 15 minutes away from my home so I spend an hour a day driving my kids there and picking them up. And I'm quite grateful for the privilege since my zoned school is one of the worst in the city.

I certainly don't consider the driving I do "extremely inconvenient." I'm grateful to do it because my previous drive to an inferior charter was 25 minutes each way.

The way I see it, Bowser caters far too much to the WOTP crowd. Not too little.

Look at their streets compared to the ones in my neighborhood.
Their policing.
Trash pick up at the Rec centers on that side of the park.
Maintenance of the swimming pools WOTP vs EOTP. The list goes on.

I'm all for Bowser calling out the casual racism that rules the thoughts of many WOTP.

Please stop conflating racism with classicism. Also not racism: (1) preferring not be inconvenienced (pretty sure the reaction would have been the same if they were offered a building in the palisades or kent). (2) not wanting additional kids in an already overcrowded school.

Eh, it's possible to be both classicist and racist. Like you.

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Anonymous wrote:Janeese lobbied against Lafayette using the Military Rd School, as did the Ward 4 Education Alliance. Both thought the school should be used for students who lived near the school (aka not used by student across the park).

She lobbied against Lafayette losing the school because she knew it would play well with Lafayette voters. There was no other reason. If she had pushed Lafayette to move PK there, her next election would have become a lot more difficult.

She has publicly said she thinks Shepherd and Lafayette would be routed out of D-W, so I’m not sure that’s it.

This isn't true. DCPS specifically said that Lafayette and Shepherd would NOT be moved out of the Wilson feeder pattern during public meetings looking at how to use the two new school buildings. I'm a Lafayette parent and I'm so sick of this contingent of current and former Lafayette parents who spread misinformation to further their agenda. You've already stated your real concern is keeping OOB kids out of Lafayette. People called you out as the racists that you are, so now you're making up lies to cover for your real motives.

You are incorrect. Janeese Lewis George has said, multiple times, that she believes that Lafayette and Shepherd should be re-routed to Ward 4 middle-high schools. Similarly, the city has NEVER and would NEVER commit to keeping ANY school within ANY middle-high school pattern in perpetuity. Ask Crestwood parents.

That’s not true. JLG has specifically said she supports SP and Lafayette families who want to maintain the Deal-Wilson feeder pattern. Not that it matters, ultimately, because the Council has very little say on what goes on with DCPS.

No. She has said they should have a grandfathering period like was given to other schools when boundaries were re-drawn. She has said "current families should be able to stay."