Mary Cheh seeks to exempt Stoddert from DCPS boundary procedures

[Anonymous]

Mary Cheh introduced a resolution in the Council, “Sense of the Council on the Stoddert Elementary Addition Resolution of 2022”.

To declare the sense of the Council that the District of Columbia Public Schools should ensure that
no family assigned to the new elementary school in Foxhall Village has a longer commute
to school than in their current catchment area; that the new elementary school in Foxhall
Village is located such that it cannot accommodate Glover Park families or other families
within Stoddert’s catchment area, as the new school is not reasonably accessible for that
community; and, that the Stoddert addition must be built such that an additional story can
be added when future enrollment requires it.

https://lims.dccouncil.us/downloads/LIMS/49787/Introduction/PR24-0814-Introduction.pdf

[Anonymous]

I cannot stand that woman. Many of us have had to swallow boundary changes we hate. Including the upcoming McCarthur school which is so far away from my house at the far end of the Eaton boundary and is inconvenient in every darn way to access.

Suck it up Stoddert.

[Anonymous]

Hahahahaha

[Anonymous]

The privileged seeking actual special privileges.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The privileged seeking actual special privileges.

It is remarkable to watch it happen in real-time. No shame.

[Anonymous]

Locating a school there was her idea, and now she realizes it's inconvenient to almost everyone?

[Anonymous]

How about a resolution that DCPS provides adequate special education to children who attend DCPS?

[Anonymous]

I hope this resolution gets laughed at by the council. Just an example of equity just being a word but not an action taken. Poor upper NW families in their brand new school.

[Anonymous]

This just means that more seats at the new school will be available for those EOTP. Isn't that the goal? or am I missing something? if it is just intra-ward-3 fights, then who cares? let them do whatever.

[Anonymous]

What does this mean in plain English?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The privileged seeking actual special privileges.

It is remarkable to watch it happen in real-time. No shame.

Yep it is amazing that foxhall was able to get an elementary school. There are like 5 kids who live in that area.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The privileged seeking actual special privileges.

It is remarkable to watch it happen in real-time. No shame.

Yep it is amazing that foxhall was able to get an elementary school. There are like 5 kids who live in that area.

What’s more amazing is that the mayor gave away — literally! — the existing school on the site, so now the city will spend millions to build a new school next door on what has been field space.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The privileged seeking actual special privileges.

It is remarkable to watch it happen in real-time. No shame.

Yep it is amazing that foxhall was able to get an elementary school. There are like 5 kids who live in that area.

One of the things that came out in the Community Working Group was that slightly more than half of the kids at Key live closer to Foxhall than Key.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This just means that more seats at the new school will be available for those EOTP. Isn't that the goal? or am I missing something? if it is just intra-ward-3 fights, then who cares? let them do whatever.

Upper NW is projected to have too many students in…what 2-3 year like 2,000 more kids vs seats or something. This translates into Deal and Wilson(named changed) being very over crowded. Like people suing DC too crowded. The easy(politically) way to fix this is to push feeding elementary students from Mann to Hardy and make a new High school that takes Hardy. This will relieve pressure on Mann and former Wilson. The cheaper way is to take elementary school west of the park now going to Mann and send them to the middle/high school east of the park in Upper NW.

An elementary school in Foxhall has a lot of problems and does not fix the over crowding issue in upper NW. It is a white elephant. It is a school for the few rich people with kids who live in Foxhall and close by Palisades. The only way you get enough kids is to cut Glover Park in half. The density is a lot higher in Glover Park vs Foxhall. So once Glover Park got wind of it they organized. They are pissed off. Proposed new boundary would make people who live a block away from Stoddert have to drive their kids to Foxhall.

Next up Mann and Key will get proposed new boundary. Mann -everything south of Nebraska will go to the new Foxhall school and Key everything east of Arizona. Basically the same thing they proposed for Glover Park. People will be able to see an elementary school from their house but can not go there. Lol

This is why the New Foxhall Elementary school is circling the drain.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I cannot stand that woman. Many of us have had to swallow boundary changes we hate. Including the upcoming McCarthur school which is so far away from my house at the far end of the Eaton boundary and is inconvenient in every darn way to access.

Suck it up Stoddert.

I’m so sorry for your difficulties. It’s stunning that your response is to say “suck it up” to other children and parents. And you “hate that woman”? Do you know her? Your anger and vindictiveness are ugly and immature.