Option B best for Ward 3?

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Anonymous wrote:Later they say those students will also have to compete with siblings first, then twins or "multiples" admitted to the school, and it would seem that whatever is left over after that goes to the low performing refugees.

Since when did twins or multiples (no need for quote marks here) cease to be siblings?

twins and multiples are the same age, so take up two or more spots in the same year, unlike other siblings.

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Anonymous wrote:You are all lifelong Democrats, but you can't stand the idea of your kid at a school with minorities. Or, even worse, minorities being bused in to your kids school.

Generalize much? I am in ward 3 and while I want to keep neighborhood schools, I think plan B works very well.

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There have been minorities coming to ward three schools all along. Wilson is majority minority.

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As a single mom with kids in elementary WOTP this would not be logistically feasible for our family. Also, we enjoy being part of a community and walking to school. Additional morning commute time just is not possible and would cause us to leave DC. In practical terms, given real transportation issues, none of this makes sense, except from a Robin Hood mentality. All kids should have access to good schools. Causing folks to be forced to leave DCPS and perhaps DC due to the practical considerations makes NO sense.

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Anonymous wrote:You don't seem to be aware that your school is part of a school system and that that school system is part of a political system. If the only issue was crowding at a small set of schools wotp you would be right, but it's not.

I am aware of that. Making our schools worse, isn't the answer. The problems in Ward 3 schools aren't the same as the problems at Ward 8 schools, so why try to fix both of them with the same solution? It's not going to work.

the fix requires some pain WOTP because the solutions for the WOTP schools (a mix of expansions, boundary reductions and reductions in OOB admissions) are not politically palitable outside Ward 3.

The fix doesn't require pain to ward 3 schools. Thinking that is just mean spirited. That's one of the things that's bothering me. Some of this feels like a mean spirited chipping away at our neighborhood schools. We have OOB lotteries. Great. OOB kids are welcomed as long as their is space. Not a problem. But as soon as neighborhood kids start filling the schools, there's an outcry. Now we have to be forced into having 10-20% of the seats at schools set aside for kids from failing schools. Where does it end?

Mean spirited or not, people have been chipping away at neighborhood schools since the first charter came to town. Those families who win the lottery and live near the "sought-after charter" are OK. Those who can afford to live where there are already good neighborhood schools are OK. Everyone else is not OK, but remember -- it's not the fault of those other families -- it's the fault of the system. Go after the system -- not other parents.

Families who decided to go charter weren't forced out of schools they contributed to and wanted their kids to attend. They chose charters for various reasons, and for many these charters were Better than their IB school. What's happening in ward 3 feels like we are being forced into schools that are worse than the ones we bought houses to be IB for ---at the request of families who are not happy with their IB schools.

But remember, it's not the families who are requesting it -- it's the school system that is proposing it. the families just want better education for their kids. I'm suggesting that all families should pull together against a system that is trying to pitt you against each other.

Read some of the other threads that show what some EOTP families think about Ward 3 families. Not warm and fuzzy. And this was before any of these debates began. We're all entitled to try to do the best for our kids. I'm not okay with anyone who wants to take something away from my kid so their kid can benefit. I don't care what ward they live in.

wow. entitled much? you just showed why some (lots?) EOTP families feel the way they do about Ward 3. heck, i live in Ward 3 and i definitely don't like this attitude.

How is it entitled to want to stay IB for the school's boundaries you bought a house in? If I'm entitled for wanting to stay in my current IB school, then what do you think about OOB families who think they should take my kid's spot?

There is no entitlement to attend a particular school. Real estate agents like to tout school boundaries, but they can be changed at any time, and the city has no obligation to you in this respect. In Fairfax County, they redraw boundaries all the time. They sometimes don't even let kids stay in the school they are currently attending.

Fairfax neither has the big disparity in school quality that exists in DC nor the apparent Robin Hood ideology that seems to be taking over DCPS

People have the wrong idea about Fairfax and other communities in the burbs. Poor people live there too. Especially along route 1. Lots of title one schools, etc. it's a big county.

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Anonymous wrote:The Ward 3 parents on here aren't doing themselves any favors. I was sympathetic to their concerns because they have the most to lose. But it doesn't take hipster glasses to see that very few posters from Ward 3 see themselves as part of a collective system and they clearly dislike other parents and kids outside their ward, either because of their choices or circumstances. Studies show allotting 20% of seats to low-income kids helps those kids, but doesn't hurt the other 80%. That's not a tipping point, so why not help those needy kids?

As this public debate continues, don't expect the other 7 wards to care about your concerns when you show such disregard for theirs.

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Anonymous wrote:Later they say those students will also have to compete with siblings first, then twins or "multiples" admitted to the school, and it would seem that whatever is left over after that goes to the low performing refugees.

Since when did twins or multiples (no need for quote marks here) cease to be siblings?

twins and multiples are the same age, so take up two or more spots in the same year, unlike other siblings.

You know this is ridiculous. They are unique individuals.