How many fights did your kid see at Deal this week?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How about not putting kids and teachers in a building that is overcrowded?

Thank you Mayor Bowser for creating a feeder plan that does not support learning. You had the choice not to "Grandfather" in certain neighborhoods - you decided it was in your best political interest.

There is no way to enforce the policy that if you move to another neighborhood in DC that you get to stay at your current school through the truncating grade.

And every year you make Deal fight for every budget dollar that they get - I need to check records again - but I believe it is the smallest budget as measured by total school budget per pupil.

Why not give the teachers there and the administration so city wide respect and enable them to do their jobs. They are trying.

Frankly, Bowser grandfathered in all the kids who fight. It's not PC to say this but they're always, year-after-year from those schools.

Here's one for the person looking for evidence of racism!

+1. Which is weird. And also factually wrong. What “schools” were students from Crestwood and 16th St Heights (the only students that were grandfathered) coming from? If PP knew anything about Crestwood, she wouldn’t have been such an idiotic statement. If PP was being overtly racist by implying it’s the black students that fight, then she’s still wrong because black students are either IB (not grandfathered) or in through OOB feeder, most certainly NOT by being grandfathered. The 20 or so grandfathered kids attending Deal from Crestwood are not causing fights. One just won the debate tournament

We are a family that has benefited from the grandfathered clause. I shake my head and laugh when I read comments like PP upthread. The grandfathered kids are part of the class that is running DC, not causing fights at Deal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How about not putting kids and teachers in a building that is overcrowded?

Thank you Mayor Bowser for creating a feeder plan that does not support learning. You had the choice not to "Grandfather" in certain neighborhoods - you decided it was in your best political interest.

There is no way to enforce the policy that if you move to another neighborhood in DC that you get to stay at your current school through the truncating grade.

And every year you make Deal fight for every budget dollar that they get - I need to check records again - but I believe it is the smallest budget as measured by total school budget per pupil.

Why not give the teachers there and the administration so city wide respect and enable them to do their jobs. They are trying.

Frankly, Bowser grandfathered in all the kids who fight. It's not PC to say this but they're always, year-after-year from those schools.

Here's one for the person looking for evidence of racism!

+1. Which is weird. And also factually wrong. What “schools” were students from Crestwood and 16th St Heights (the only students that were grandfathered) coming from? If PP knew anything about Crestwood, she wouldn’t have been such an idiotic statement. If PP was being overtly racist by implying it’s the black students that fight, then she’s still wrong because black students are either IB (not grandfathered) or in through OOB feeder, most certainly NOT by being grandfathered. The 20 or so grandfathered kids attending Deal from Crestwood are not causing fights. One just won the debate tournament

We are a family that has benefited from the grandfathered clause. I shake my head and laugh when I read comments like PP upthread. The grandfathered kids are part of the class that is running DC, not causing fights at Deal.

I have a "grandfathered" child at both Deal and Wilson, both of whom are solid-A students, well behaved... and very white. Doesn't the earlier poster know anything about the demographics (and house prices!) of Crestwood? Those schools are *very* lucky to have them.

[Anonymous]

Just hilarious that PP said in “certain” neighborhoods. She most certainly has no idea about the grandfathering that happened and is repeating talking points form her right wing nut DC friends. Very sad.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How about not putting kids and teachers in a building that is overcrowded?

Thank you Mayor Bowser for creating a feeder plan that does not support learning. You had the choice not to "Grandfather" in certain neighborhoods - you decided it was in your best political interest.

There is no way to enforce the policy that if you move to another neighborhood in DC that you get to stay at your current school through the truncating grade.

And every year you make Deal fight for every budget dollar that they get - I need to check records again - but I believe it is the smallest budget as measured by total school budget per pupil.

Why not give the teachers there and the administration so city wide respect and enable them to do their jobs. They are trying.

Frankly, Bowser grandfathered in all the kids who fight. It's not PC to say this but they're always, year-after-year from those schools.

Here's one for the person looking for evidence of racism!

+1. Which is weird. And also factually wrong. What “schools” were students from Crestwood and 16th St Heights (the only students that were grandfathered) coming from? If PP knew anything about Crestwood, she wouldn’t have been such an idiotic statement. If PP was being overtly racist by implying it’s the black students that fight, then she’s still wrong because black students are either IB (not grandfathered) or in through OOB feeder, most certainly NOT by being grandfathered. The 20 or so grandfathered kids attending Deal from Crestwood are not causing fights. One just won the debate tournament

We are a family that has benefited from the grandfathered clause. I shake my head and laugh when I read comments like PP upthread. The grandfathered kids are part of the class that is running DC, not causing fights at Deal.

I have a "grandfathered" child at both Deal and Wilson, both of whom are solid-A students, well behaved... and very white. Doesn't the earlier poster know anything about the demographics (and house prices!) of Crestwood? Those schools are *very* lucky to have them.

+1. There's so much racism WOTP. They don't even know much about these EOTP neighborhoods that some of these WOTP parents love to denigrate or the history of Crestwood as an elite neighborhood long before some of the WOTP neighborhoods were considered elite. I'm a white EOTP parent in boundary for Deal and Wilson, and I'd love for Janney and Hearst to get their own new MS and HS so we can stop hearing about overcrowding.

[Anonymous]

The grandfathering is not about who was grandfathered.

It is about overcrowding. Take those lovely children a put them in a less crowded school. After you are at capacity - every additional body stresses a system.

Sort of like how the bubble class at Janney (current 9th graders) broke the system. They are all lovely children when you have 20 of them in a classroom. But when you put 30 -the room is overcapacity and things break down

[Anonymous]

It’s not about overcrowding; it’s about an utter lack of consequences.

[Anonymous]

Really enjoying this thread of child psychology experts

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How about not putting kids and teachers in a building that is overcrowded?

Thank you Mayor Bowser for creating a feeder plan that does not support learning. You had the choice not to "Grandfather" in certain neighborhoods - you decided it was in your best political interest.

There is no way to enforce the policy that if you move to another neighborhood in DC that you get to stay at your current school through the truncating grade.

And every year you make Deal fight for every budget dollar that they get - I need to check records again - but I believe it is the smallest budget as measured by total school budget per pupil.

Why not give the teachers there and the administration so city wide respect and enable them to do their jobs. They are trying.

Frankly, Bowser grandfathered in all the kids who fight. It's not PC to say this but they're always, year-after-year from those schools.

Here's one for the person looking for evidence of racism!

+1. Which is weird. And also factually wrong. What “schools” were students from Crestwood and 16th St Heights (the only students that were grandfathered) coming from? If PP knew anything about Crestwood, she wouldn’t have been such an idiotic statement. If PP was being overtly racist by implying it’s the black students that fight, then she’s still wrong because black students are either IB (not grandfathered) or in through OOB feeder, most certainly NOT by being grandfathered. The 20 or so grandfathered kids attending Deal from Crestwood are not causing fights. One just won the debate tournament

We are a family that has benefited from the grandfathered clause. I shake my head and laugh when I read comments like PP upthread. The grandfathered kids are part of the class that is running DC, not causing fights at Deal.

I have a "grandfathered" child at both Deal and Wilson, both of whom are solid-A students, well behaved... and very white. Doesn't the earlier poster know anything about the demographics (and house prices!) of Crestwood? Those schools are *very* lucky to have them.

+1. There's so much racism WOTP. They don't even know much about these EOTP neighborhoods that some of these WOTP parents love to denigrate or the history of Crestwood as an elite neighborhood long before some of the WOTP neighborhoods were considered elite. I'm a white EOTP parent in boundary for Deal and Wilson, and I'd love for Janney and Hearst to get their own new MS and HS so we can stop hearing about overcrowding.

But that would create another WOTP school that’s mostly white.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The grandfathering is not about who was grandfathered.

It is about overcrowding. Take those lovely children a put them in a less crowded school. After you are at capacity - every additional body stresses a system.

Sort of like how the bubble class at Janney (current 9th graders) broke the system. They are all lovely children when you have 20 of them in a classroom. But when you put 30 -the room is overcapacity and things break down

That PP (perhaps it was you) was being plain old racist. Period. The grandfathering led to about 20 extra kids. To blame the current behavior on that is just wrong. Brookland middle and Dunbar high are well under enrolled and they have similar issues. PERIOD. Stop using this excuse as cover for your racism. The problem is you were wrong as those 20 kids are predominantly white and contributing to a lot of the success at Deal/Wilson that you like to brag about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The grandfathering is not about who was grandfathered.

It is about overcrowding. Take those lovely children a put them in a less crowded school. After you are at capacity - every additional body stresses a system.

Sort of like how the bubble class at Janney (current 9th graders) broke the system. They are all lovely children when you have 20 of them in a classroom. But when you put 30 -the room is overcapacity and things break down

That PP (perhaps it was you) was being plain old racist. Period. The grandfathering led to about 20 extra kids. To blame the current behavior on that is just wrong. Brookland middle and Dunbar high are well under enrolled and they have similar issues. PERIOD. Stop using this excuse as cover for your racism. The problem is you were wrong as those 20 kids are predominantly white and contributing to a lot of the success at Deal/Wilson that you like to brag about.

+1. Complaining about overcrowding is a cover for racism. Some Lafayette parents are doing it too regarding OOB kids coming from EOTP. We see through their not-so-covert attempts to hide their racism.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How about not putting kids and teachers in a building that is overcrowded?

Thank you Mayor Bowser for creating a feeder plan that does not support learning. You had the choice not to "Grandfather" in certain neighborhoods - you decided it was in your best political interest.

There is no way to enforce the policy that if you move to another neighborhood in DC that you get to stay at your current school through the truncating grade.

And every year you make Deal fight for every budget dollar that they get - I need to check records again - but I believe it is the smallest budget as measured by total school budget per pupil.

Why not give the teachers there and the administration so city wide respect and enable them to do their jobs. They are trying.

Frankly, Bowser grandfathered in all the kids who fight. It's not PC to say this but they're always, year-after-year from those schools.

Here's one for the person looking for evidence of racism!

+1. Which is weird. And also factually wrong. What “schools” were students from Crestwood and 16th St Heights (the only students that were grandfathered) coming from? If PP knew anything about Crestwood, she wouldn’t have been such an idiotic statement. If PP was being overtly racist by implying it’s the black students that fight, then she’s still wrong because black students are either IB (not grandfathered) or in through OOB feeder, most certainly NOT by being grandfathered. The 20 or so grandfathered kids attending Deal from Crestwood are not causing fights. One just won the debate tournament

We are a family that has benefited from the grandfathered clause. I shake my head and laugh when I read comments like PP upthread. The grandfathered kids are part of the class that is running DC, not causing fights at Deal.

I have a "grandfathered" child at both Deal and Wilson, both of whom are solid-A students, well behaved... and very white. Doesn't the earlier poster know anything about the demographics (and house prices!) of Crestwood? Those schools are *very* lucky to have them.

+1. There's so much racism WOTP. They don't even know much about these EOTP neighborhoods that some of these WOTP parents love to denigrate or the history of Crestwood as an elite neighborhood long before some of the WOTP neighborhoods were considered elite. I'm a white EOTP parent in boundary for Deal and Wilson, and I'd love for Janney and Hearst to get their own new MS and HS so we can stop hearing about overcrowding.

Omg yes! We lived in AU Park and moved EOTP. Parents would come for play dates and fully admit they never came over here because they thought it was crime ridden. The moms would say, “the neighborhood is really nice, I’m surprised.”

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How about not putting kids and teachers in a building that is overcrowded?

Thank you Mayor Bowser for creating a feeder plan that does not support learning. You had the choice not to "Grandfather" in certain neighborhoods - you decided it was in your best political interest.

There is no way to enforce the policy that if you move to another neighborhood in DC that you get to stay at your current school through the truncating grade.

And every year you make Deal fight for every budget dollar that they get - I need to check records again - but I believe it is the smallest budget as measured by total school budget per pupil.

Why not give the teachers there and the administration so city wide respect and enable them to do their jobs. They are trying.

Frankly, Bowser grandfathered in all the kids who fight. It's not PC to say this but they're always, year-after-year from those schools.

Here's one for the person looking for evidence of racism!

+1. Which is weird. And also factually wrong. What “schools” were students from Crestwood and 16th St Heights (the only students that were grandfathered) coming from? If PP knew anything about Crestwood, she wouldn’t have been such an idiotic statement. If PP was being overtly racist by implying it’s the black students that fight, then she’s still wrong because black students are either IB (not grandfathered) or in through OOB feeder, most certainly NOT by being grandfathered. The 20 or so grandfathered kids attending Deal from Crestwood are not causing fights. One just won the debate tournament

We are a family that has benefited from the grandfathered clause. I shake my head and laugh when I read comments like PP upthread. The grandfathered kids are part of the class that is running DC, not causing fights at Deal.

I have a "grandfathered" child at both Deal and Wilson, both of whom are solid-A students, well behaved... and very white. Doesn't the earlier poster know anything about the demographics (and house prices!) of Crestwood? Those schools are *very* lucky to have them.

+1. There's so much racism WOTP. They don't even know much about these EOTP neighborhoods that some of these WOTP parents love to denigrate or the history of Crestwood as an elite neighborhood long before some of the WOTP neighborhoods were considered elite. I'm a white EOTP parent in boundary for Deal and Wilson, and I'd love for Janney and Hearst to get their own new MS and HS so we can stop hearing about overcrowding.

But that would create another WOTP school that’s mostly white.

PP you're responding to here. As far as I'm concerned, let them have their white school. Their real problem is racism. They don't want their kids to go to school with a lot of black kids, and they cite "overcrowding" which is the DC dog whistle. I just want these parents out of our schools so they can stop harassing the rest of us. The big issue now is they don't want to start a brand new school and deal with all the issues that brings. They expect everyone who they don't want at Deal and Wilson to just leave so they can have their established schools that are mostly white.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The grandfathering is not about who was grandfathered.

It is about overcrowding. Take those lovely children a put them in a less crowded school. After you are at capacity - every additional body stresses a system.

Sort of like how the bubble class at Janney (current 9th graders) broke the system. They are all lovely children when you have 20 of them in a classroom. But when you put 30 -the room is overcapacity and things break down

That PP (perhaps it was you) was being plain old racist. Period. The grandfathering led to about 20 extra kids. To blame the current behavior on that is just wrong. Brookland middle and Dunbar high are well under enrolled and they have similar issues. PERIOD. Stop using this excuse as cover for your racism. The problem is you were wrong as those 20 kids are predominantly white and contributing to a lot of the success at Deal/Wilson that you like to brag about.

+1. Complaining about overcrowding is a cover for racism. Some Lafayette parents are doing it too regarding OOB kids coming from EOTP. We see through their not-so-covert attempts to hide their racism.

NP - Overcrowding is real and is projected by DCPS to get worse very soon in the Wilson feeder system. Overcrowded schools are less effective at educating students, more expensive to operate, more chaotic, lead to higher rates of teacher burnout, and are potentially dangerous. Simply conflating concern that DCPS needs a plan to handle overcrowding with racism is ignorant and inflammatory. Please be more careful with your accusations. That said, I agree the grandfathering plays only a small role in the current overcrowding situation and really has nothing to do with the recent fight.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How about not putting kids and teachers in a building that is overcrowded?

Thank you Mayor Bowser for creating a feeder plan that does not support learning. You had the choice not to "Grandfather" in certain neighborhoods - you decided it was in your best political interest.

There is no way to enforce the policy that if you move to another neighborhood in DC that you get to stay at your current school through the truncating grade.

And every year you make Deal fight for every budget dollar that they get - I need to check records again - but I believe it is the smallest budget as measured by total school budget per pupil.

Why not give the teachers there and the administration so city wide respect and enable them to do their jobs. They are trying.

Frankly, Bowser grandfathered in all the kids who fight. It's not PC to say this but they're always, year-after-year from those schools.

Here's one for the person looking for evidence of racism!

+1. Which is weird. And also factually wrong. What “schools” were students from Crestwood and 16th St Heights (the only students that were grandfathered) coming from? If PP knew anything about Crestwood, she wouldn’t have been such an idiotic statement. If PP was being overtly racist by implying it’s the black students that fight, then she’s still wrong because black students are either IB (not grandfathered) or in through OOB feeder, most certainly NOT by being grandfathered. The 20 or so grandfathered kids attending Deal from Crestwood are not causing fights. One just won the debate tournament

We are a family that has benefited from the grandfathered clause. I shake my head and laugh when I read comments like PP upthread. The grandfathered kids are part of the class that is running DC, not causing fights at Deal.

I have a "grandfathered" child at both Deal and Wilson, both of whom are solid-A students, well behaved... and very white. Doesn't the earlier poster know anything about the demographics (and house prices!) of Crestwood? Those schools are *very* lucky to have them.

+1. There's so much racism WOTP. They don't even know much about these EOTP neighborhoods that some of these WOTP parents love to denigrate or the history of Crestwood as an elite neighborhood long before some of the WOTP neighborhoods were considered elite. I'm a white EOTP parent in boundary for Deal and Wilson, and I'd love for Janney and Hearst to get their own new MS and HS so we can stop hearing about overcrowding.

But that would create another WOTP school that’s mostly white.

PP you're responding to here. As far as I'm concerned, let them have their white school. Their real problem is racism. They don't want their kids to go to school with a lot of black kids, and they cite "overcrowding" which is the DC dog whistle. I just want these parents out of our schools so they can stop harassing the rest of us. The big issue now is they don't want to start a brand new school and deal with all the issues that brings. They expect everyone who they don't want at Deal and Wilson to just leave so they can have their established schools that are mostly white.

Why is it your school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:How about not putting kids and teachers in a building that is overcrowded?

Thank you Mayor Bowser for creating a feeder plan that does not support learning. You had the choice not to "Grandfather" in certain neighborhoods - you decided it was in your best political interest.

There is no way to enforce the policy that if you move to another neighborhood in DC that you get to stay at your current school through the truncating grade.

And every year you make Deal fight for every budget dollar that they get - I need to check records again - but I believe it is the smallest budget as measured by total school budget per pupil.

Why not give the teachers there and the administration so city wide respect and enable them to do their jobs. They are trying.

Frankly, Bowser grandfathered in all the kids who fight. It's not PC to say this but they're always, year-after-year from those schools.

Here's one for the person looking for evidence of racism!

+1. Which is weird. And also factually wrong. What “schools” were students from Crestwood and 16th St Heights (the only students that were grandfathered) coming from? If PP knew anything about Crestwood, she wouldn’t have been such an idiotic statement. If PP was being overtly racist by implying it’s the black students that fight, then she’s still wrong because black students are either IB (not grandfathered) or in through OOB feeder, most certainly NOT by being grandfathered. The 20 or so grandfathered kids attending Deal from Crestwood are not causing fights. One just won the debate tournament

We are a family that has benefited from the grandfathered clause. I shake my head and laugh when I read comments like PP upthread. The grandfathered kids are part of the class that is running DC, not causing fights at Deal.

I have a "grandfathered" child at both Deal and Wilson, both of whom are solid-A students, well behaved... and very white. Doesn't the earlier poster know anything about the demographics (and house prices!) of Crestwood? Those schools are *very* lucky to have them.

+1. There's so much racism WOTP. They don't even know much about these EOTP neighborhoods that some of these WOTP parents love to denigrate or the history of Crestwood as an elite neighborhood long before some of the WOTP neighborhoods were considered elite. I'm a white EOTP parent in boundary for Deal and Wilson, and I'd love for Janney and Hearst to get their own new MS and HS so we can stop hearing about overcrowding.

But that would create another WOTP school that’s mostly white.

PP you're responding to here. As far as I'm concerned, let them have their white school. Their real problem is racism. They don't want their kids to go to school with a lot of black kids, and they cite "overcrowding" which is the DC dog whistle. I just want these parents out of our schools so they can stop harassing the rest of us. The big issue now is they don't want to start a brand new school and deal with all the issues that brings. They expect everyone who they don't want at Deal and Wilson to just leave so they can have their established schools that are mostly white.

Why is it your school?

BECAUSE IT'S OUR ASSIGNED SCHOOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!