Any MV families considering a move to Bancroft to avoid horrendous commute next year?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Gonzaga High School is a few blocks away and the new buildings for NPR and Walmart are nearby. Lots and lots of change going on. Honestly, I think you have just as much of a chance, if not more, of experiencing crime outside of the Target or Columbia Heights Metro. I think they made a good choice given the limited amount of real estate made available by the city. Sure, I'd love to be in a less congested area with lots of green space, but we all know that the city isn't offering up those kinds of properties.

I agree with you that MV had few options and their choice isn't a bad one. Plus, Truxton/NoMa are changing for the better.

However your statement in bold is completely false, if you are talking about serious crime. There was a fatal drive-by shooting in Co Heights a few year's back (2010?) and it made the FRONT PAGE of the Post because it was considered so shocking that such a crime could still occur in CoHi. Whereas drive-bys still happen on a monthly basis in Truxton, and it never makes the news unless a dozen people get shot (as happened a year or so ago). Give me a break.

If you are talking about petty crime, purse snatching, yes, this is more likely in absolute numbers in CoHi, because CoHi is the most densely populated neighborhood in the city and has the most foot traffic. But it is much safer on a per capita basis than Truxton.

This is such BS. Completely wrong and shows such an inability to understand the dynamics of the neighborhood. Columbia Heights has frequent violence and shootings. Perhaps not right outside the metro, but 13th and Harvard, for example, has had more shootings than anywhere else in the city at times. That is not the case with Truxton Circle. Look at the crime maps.

LOL!! Crime maps only show the crimes that are reported. Most victims of crime in Truxton Circle aren't reporting the crimes. Guess who isn't understanding the dynamics of the neighborhood!!

I fully understand the dynamics of the neighborhood. I LIVE THERE. I can guarantee I know a lot more about the dynamics of the neighborhood than you do.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Other than the shooting on NY Ave and NCap that happened two yrs ago, FYI, SOME is on the same block as MV and they bus in homeless people EVERY morning so they can eat. If you have a problem with that MV may not be the school for you.

Not true. Mundo Verde is on P st. SOME is on N st.

No. MV is located between O and P St. NW. Pickup and dropoff in all likelihood will be on O St. NW b/c there is no way in hell the neighborhood is going to stand for P St NW being backed up.

SOME is on O St.:

http://www.some.org/

71 O St. NW to be exact.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Other than the shooting on NY Ave and NCap that happened two yrs ago, FYI, SOME is on the same block as MV and they bus in homeless people EVERY morning so they can eat. If you have a problem with that MV may not be the school for you.

Not true. Mundo Verde is on P st. SOME is on N st.

No. MV is located between O and P St. NW. Pickup and dropoff in all likelihood will be on O St. NW b/c there is no way in hell the neighborhood is going to stand for P St NW being backed up.

SOME is on O St.:

http://www.some.org/

71 O St. NW to be exact.

Pickup is on P, please stop saying otherwise.

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Anonymous wrote:This is the entire class. And, again, it would be good to hear from parents of older kids at other bilingual schools with respect to how their kids are doing in the target language (which of course isn't measured on the standardized tests). My impression from my friend whose son is at a well-regarded Chinese charter is that everyone in the 3rd grade classroom is still reading the equivalent of "cat" and "dog" in Chinese, whereas her son (who is actually reading fluently) is the exception rather than the rule. I know of a 5th grader who transferred to Bancroft from a well-regarded bilngual charter who was reading at the Kindergarten level in Spanish (the spoken language was fluent; written was not) when they got to Bancroft. They jumped several levels during their year at Bancroft and are now in advanced Spanish classes in their middle school.

This seems horrible to me, and I am at another immersion school. I haven't seen the data for my school, but all the children seem to be reading pretty well in Spanish by the first grade. I think Chinese is a different story, so I wouldn't even dare to compare, but that is an absolutely shocking percentage to me about a spanish immersion school.

It's completely irrelevant for a Chinese school, where literacy is character-based and not phonetic.

Incidentally, doesn't the Assistant Principal at Bancroft actually send her children to a Spanish Immersion charter?

Yes, to Mundo Verde.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Other than the shooting on NY Ave and NCap that happened two yrs ago, FYI, SOME is on the same block as MV and they bus in homeless people EVERY morning so they can eat. If you have a problem with that MV may not be the school for you.

Not true. Mundo Verde is on P st. SOME is on N st.

No. MV is located between O and P St. NW. Pickup and dropoff in all likelihood will be on O St. NW b/c there is no way in hell the neighborhood is going to stand for P St NW being backed up.

SOME is on O St.:

http://www.some.org/

71 O St. NW to be exact.

Pickup is on P, please stop saying otherwise.

How do you know? Construction has not been completed yet. I'm another poster who lives in the neighborhood and that intersection P St. NW and 1st NW is congested and horrible already every morning.

If pickup and dropoff is on P St NW like you say, there will be more than enough complaints to the Mayor and ANC commissioner to make MV change it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How long would a commute from 16th Street heights to MVs new location be in the morning? Bummed about it moving

Consider using the charter bus they are forming. It should serve you easily, and you would only have to get to Mount Pleasant.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Other than the shooting on NY Ave and NCap that happened two yrs ago, FYI, SOME is on the same block as MV and they bus in homeless people EVERY morning so they can eat. If you have a problem with that MV may not be the school for you.

Not true. Mundo Verde is on P st. SOME is on N st.

No. MV is located between O and P St. NW. Pickup and dropoff in all likelihood will be on O St. NW b/c there is no way in hell the neighborhood is going to stand for P St NW being backed up.

SOME is on O St.:

http://www.some.org/

71 O St. NW to be exact.

Pickup is on P, please stop saying otherwise.

How do you know? Construction has not been completed yet. I'm another poster who lives in the neighborhood and that intersection P St. NW and 1st NW is congested and horrible already every morning.

If pickup and dropoff is on P St NW like you say, there will be more than enough complaints to the Mayor and ANC commissioner to make MV change it.

The building fronts way more of P than O; only a small amount of the property touches O. The pickup plan has been presented to the ANC and the neighborhood groups many, many times. There may be tweaks, but P street pickup/drop off is a certainty, most likely using the 13 spaces in front of the school that will mostly likely be reserved for that purpose by DDOT mandate.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:How about kid-trailer bicycling? Are there bike lanes nearby, or is the N Capitol sidewalk wide enough? I'm thinking from the Petworth area.

There is A LOT of construction going on and a MAJOR amount of traffic...I don't think I would bike...

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Other than the shooting on NY Ave and NCap that happened two yrs ago, FYI, SOME is on the same block as MV and they bus in homeless people EVERY morning so they can eat. If you have a problem with that MV may not be the school for you.

Not true. Mundo Verde is on P st. SOME is on N st.

No. MV is located between O and P St. NW. Pickup and dropoff in all likelihood will be on O St. NW b/c there is no way in hell the neighborhood is going to stand for P St NW being backed up.

SOME is on O St.:

http://www.some.org/

71 O St. NW to be exact.

Pickup is on P, please stop saying otherwise.

How do you know? Construction has not been completed yet. I'm another poster who lives in the neighborhood and that intersection P St. NW and 1st NW is congested and horrible already every morning.

If pickup and dropoff is on P St NW like you say, there will be more than enough complaints to the Mayor and ANC commissioner to make MV change it.

The building fronts way more of P than O; only a small amount of the property touches O. The pickup plan has been presented to the ANC and the neighborhood groups many, many times. There may be tweaks, but P street pickup/drop off is a certainty, most likely using the 13 spaces in front of the school that will mostly likely be reserved for that purpose by DDOT mandate.

OMG! So no parking on 13 spaces on the Southside of P St? That will help. Oh joy, more traffic on P St. NW... 1st St NW and N. Cap. are already backed up at that time in the morning going South. P St. already has Kipp (4th and 5th St NW) and CAPCS (1st NW and 2nd NW) backing up traffic.

Thanks for this actually. I will walk!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:How about kid-trailer bicycling? Are there bike lanes nearby, or is the N Capitol sidewalk wide enough? I'm thinking from the Petworth area.

There is A LOT of construction going on and a MAJOR amount of traffic...I don't think I would bike...

There are also no sidewalks on N. Capitol north of Michigan Ave.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Is anyone keeping MV off their list because of the neighborhood?

Yes, the area is full of shootings, drug dealers, social service agencies, homeless people, etc. You don't want to bring your precious snowflake into the ghetto that's gasp, near poor people who live in housing projects! Don't apply for your kids' safety!

My kid is not a snowflake and I do have concerns about the neighborhood. I am ranking it but you can bet that if we get in I will be all over the administration about safety. There are constantly old drunk and drugged men in the alley near the school.

What do you think the school should do about the "old drunk" men? Some of them are in that alley b/c they live around there and not b/c of SOME. You really belong in the 'burbs or send your kid to private school.

And besides El Haynes, Bridges has a parole office on the same block and Two Rivers neighborhood isn't all that different from MV.... YY parents have got their cars broken into and a student and their sitter got robbed near the school.

This is a city, an urban environment, learn to deal.

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[Anonymous]

The current location in Columbia Heights is located at a VERY busy intersection and plenty of people bike there now.

[Anonymous]

OMG! So no parking on 13 spaces on the Southside of P St? That will help. Oh joy, more traffic on P St. NW... 1st St NW and N. Cap. are already backed up at that time in the morning going South. P St. already has Kipp (4th and 5th St NW) and CAPCS (1st NW and 2nd NW) backing up traffic.

Thanks for this actually. I will walk!



This isn't helping my decision at all!

[Anonymous]

I also live in the neighborhood and I am expecting traffic will be worse once MV moves in. Traffic on North Cap is hurrendous as it is so I wouldn't do that route if you are coming from north. First Street is also backed up during rush hour. Best bet is to metro! Too bad we did not get in at MV . Would have been nice to walk to school that's just a block away.

[Anonymous]

What about the drunk and drugged people in cars? trucks? Come on!!!!

I'm more worried about the walking and exhaust and DC will still attend in the new location.