Mayor Bowser adopts a child (baby?)

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Anonymous wrote:Congrats to her.

And I would imagine this cements the fact that Shepherd won't be losing its Deal feed anytime soon (jk - needed to make it relevant to this board).

http://www.fox5dc.com/news/local-news/new-mom-dc-mayor-muriel-bowser-adopts-baby

You aren't wrong. this makes me feel more sure about shepard park too!

She’ll be a great mom. But this kills any chance of meaningful changes to fix Deal/Wilson overcrowding while she is still Mayor. Sigh.

I know you want to block the 40 (mostly brown) kids that come from Shepherd elementary each year, but cutting Shepherd will not result in a meaningful change.

Do you believe that they will remain only 40 a year, and, for that matter, mostly "brown", as the current and future PK classes advance towards Deal/Wilson, considering SP's changing demographics and increasing popularity of the school?

Do you know the neighborhood? The school? Look at the PK and K classes now. White kids are a significant minority. The neighborhood is so small, with so many multi-generational families that you're not going to see demographics change dramatically - there simply isn't enough turnover for that to happen. Slow transition to increased white population (like the rest of the District) - sure...but that impact won't be hitting Deal/Wilson in this decade.

My guess is that the PP does not know the school. They just heard that PK3 is 100% IB and assumed (wrongly) that the majority of IB families with 3-year olds in SP are white. That couldn't be further than the truth. The low-income stats are going down (not celebrating, just stating), sure, but the racial demographics are not going to change as drastically. Especially when a lot of the new families that I know that moved into SP recently are going to the newly renovated JPDS, Lowell, or DCI feeder.

Also, the percentage of white kids goes down for K, when some families move their kids to JPDS/Milton. So I'd guess Shepherd will stay majority minority for at least the next decade.

The neighborhood will flip by then but with all the OOB kids using it as a portal to Deal, I agree the school will hold on for quite awhile longer

Please stop using flip in the way you do to describe a historically wealthy, middle/upper class neighborhood. Flip has a different connotation.

Fine it will transition to wealthier and mostly white. Different nuance, excact same affect. And let’s not forget it was all white and only transitioned in the 50s and 60s during the wave of white flight after the Shelley v. Kraemer decision. It only took hold as a middle class area because of the housing stock and it’s distance to downtown which sheltered it from the blight after the riots (but not necessarily Georgia Ave).

You act like it is some historically center of culture like U street or Howard. It isn’t, it only has 1-3 population turn-overs. And looking at sales data it is going back to where it started with modern SES segregation instead of the covenants that all of those houses were built with. Look up the original deeds, it will quickly dispel any false notions of their origin.

NP here and yes it’s clear you aren’t familiar with the neighborhood. This “transition”you speak of will take much longer more than a decade for both the neighborhood and the school. And who knows, by then white people may have decided rural far out areas are the hot neighborhoods to live in.

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Anonymous wrote:Congrats to her.

And I would imagine this cements the fact that Shepherd won't be losing its Deal feed anytime soon (jk - needed to make it relevant to this board).

http://www.fox5dc.com/news/local-news/new-mom-dc-mayor-muriel-bowser-adopts-baby

You aren't wrong. this makes me feel more sure about shepard park too!

She’ll be a great mom. But this kills any chance of meaningful changes to fix Deal/Wilson overcrowding while she is still Mayor. Sigh.

I know you want to block the 40 (mostly brown) kids that come from Shepherd elementary each year, but cutting Shepherd will not result in a meaningful change.

Do you believe that they will remain only 40 a year, and, for that matter, mostly "brown", as the current and future PK classes advance towards Deal/Wilson, considering SP's changing demographics and increasing popularity of the school?

Do you know the neighborhood? The school? Look at the PK and K classes now. White kids are a significant minority. The neighborhood is so small, with so many multi-generational families that you're not going to see demographics change dramatically - there simply isn't enough turnover for that to happen. Slow transition to increased white population (like the rest of the District) - sure...but that impact won't be hitting Deal/Wilson in this decade.

My guess is that the PP does not know the school. They just heard that PK3 is 100% IB and assumed (wrongly) that the majority of IB families with 3-year olds in SP are white. That couldn't be further than the truth. The low-income stats are going down (not celebrating, just stating), sure, but the racial demographics are not going to change as drastically. Especially when a lot of the new families that I know that moved into SP recently are going to the newly renovated JPDS, Lowell, or DCI feeder.

Also, the percentage of white kids goes down for K, when some families move their kids to JPDS/Milton. So I'd guess Shepherd will stay majority minority for at least the next decade.

The neighborhood will flip by then but with all the OOB kids using it as a portal to Deal, I agree the school will hold on for quite awhile longer

Please stop using flip in the way you do to describe a historically wealthy, middle/upper class neighborhood. Flip has a different connotation.

Fine it will transition to wealthier and mostly white. Different nuance, excact same affect. And let’s not forget it was all white and only transitioned in the 50s and 60s during the wave of white flight after the Shelley v. Kraemer decision. It only took hold as a middle class area because of the housing stock and it’s distance to downtown which sheltered it from the blight after the riots (but not necessarily Georgia Ave).

You act like it is some historically center of culture like U street or Howard. It isn’t, it only has 1-3 population turn-overs. And looking at sales data it is going back to where it started with modern SES segregation instead of the covenants that all of those houses were built with. Look up the original deeds, it will quickly dispel any false notions of their origin.

NP here and yes it’s clear you aren’t familiar with the neighborhood. This “transition”you speak of will take much longer more than a decade for both the neighborhood and the school. And who knows, by then white people may have decided rural far out areas are the hot neighborhoods to live in.

I live in Takoma DC and know the area just fine. It is already happening and the majority of transactions are to white people. The only variable is the turn over or cash out phase is slower but remember it had a higher white population to start with because it was always decent. Areas turn faster then people think and we are already a decade into SP & CV stride upmarket. And that these new price points the turn over is inevitable.

I do think that there will always be a larger AA and jewish presence than typical upper class neighborhoods for generations to come. Unfortunately that doesn’t take many percentage points

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I live in Takoma DC and know the area just fine. It is already happening and the majority of transactions are to white people. The only variable is the turn over or cash out phase is slower but remember it had a higher white population to start with because it was always decent. Areas turn faster then people think and we are already a decade into SP & CV stride upmarket. And that these new price points the turn over is inevitable.

I do think that there will always be a larger AA and jewish presence than typical upper class neighborhoods for generations to come. Unfortunately that doesn’t take many percentage point

Um, this is odd. You don’t even live in SP, yet you know with confidence that most buyers are white?? Are you googling the names of buyers, driving slowly through the neighborhood, or what? How about this: I actually live here, and my new neighbors in recent years are not mostly white. Within a few blocks of my house, new neighbors I can think of are two white, several interracial (various backgrounds), and two black families. For anyone planning on raising a family here over the next twenty years, it may not stay majority black that whole time, but it also won’t be majority white—it’ll be a very diverse mix.