Goulet opposes Foxhall Elementary, MacArthur High

[Anonymous]

I conveyed to Goulet's campaigners that I will not be voting for him due to him supporting the delay of the new high school. They had no good response to that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I conveyed to Goulet's campaigners that I will not be voting for him due to him supporting the delay of the new high school. They had no good response to that.

Goulet's response would be that he actually doesn't support such a delay. Assuming that is that you don't want a delay. Or that he does support a delay if he thinks you indeed want a delay. (He's been caught out telling different groups different things in different weeks.)

[Anonymous]

Latest print edition of NIMBY Pravda - which was distributed around the neighborhood but is curiosly not online - has "in their own words" responses from the candidates to what they would do about the new schools. Interestingly, Tricia Duncan's section paraphrases her position and contains a brief quote. Goulet has a half dozen paragraph or so where he promises to use the GDS campus as a K-8 school and find another site for the high school. There are people in Foxhall who apparently believe this despite the fact that Goulet, if elected, would take office 8 months before the school will open.

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Anonymous wrote:Monte Monash looks promising as a candidate.

Zero chance to win. I’m voting for Goulet. He’s the only one who is taking the soaring crime rate in ward 3 seriously

And the rest of the Council - you know, those who he will need to actually do anything at all - are going to take him seriously knowing that he got there through using questions about how to increase diversity in the Ward to complain about crime committed by African American voucher recipients? Having a council-member prone to racist tropes hasn’t worked out too well for Ward 8. It wouldn’t work out too well for Ward 3 either.

That's all you got against Goulet? This doesn't bother me in the least.

It doesn't bother you that his response to a question about how to attract and retain residents of color to Ward 3 was to {falsely} complain that all of the black residents in Ward 3 were on vouchers?

Sorry, why exactly does Ward 3 need to "attract and maintain" a higher percentage of Black and indigenous people? Not endorsing Goulet's response -- I'm asking a separate question. Why is the current demographic pie chart unacceptable, and to whom?

Are there other citywide efforts to "attract and maintain" more East Asians to Ward 8? Has Vince Gray been asked about what he's doing to "attract more Whites" to Ward 7?

There is a strong sentiment that the racial covenants and zoning in Ward 3 has created an imbalance over the last century and that to rectify, there needs to be more housing and more affordable housing.

And yes, other parts of the city have been adding more market rate housing.

There will always be the Have-Nots that want a subsided buy into the Haves. It's the most expensive area of the city but still easy to get in, just pay up. Most nice things are hoarded utilizing a power imbalance at the time, that is sort of life. redistribution will undercut the principle of ownership as the have-nots will always be ok with reshuffling the deck.

Do you know the history of Tenleytown African American communities being razed?

Clearly they don't. Just more spouting of quasi racist, right wing BS.

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Anonymous wrote:The FCCA is going to be as disappointed as a Bills fan after a Superbowl.

Regardless of his stance on the schools (good luck pinning that down!), Goulet is insufferable. His responses to both of the mini-controversies make me want to puke.

Yeah, when he went all Kavanaugh and acted like he was the real victim was just too much to take.

Agreed. He was outside our school the other morning and the general feeling was that he was slimy. The few times I've heard him speak to our issues, there's no plan-just politician speak. He's also been in a position to do something and hasn't really anyone but him!

[Anonymous]

Goulet doesn't care one way or another whether those schools are built. He is completely uninvested in DC schools.

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Anonymous wrote:Goulet doesn't care one way or another whether those schools are built. He is completely uninvested in DC schools.

Yup. W3 schools are the furthest thing from his mind. It is all about making the rest of the city charter-school only. W3 is a complete afterthought to his funders.

[Anonymous]

Wow Glover Park is totally F’d. Looks like 1/2 of Glover park will no longer go to Stoddert. Property values will take a big hit in those areas. I guess they will be bussing kids over to the new school or will parents have to drive them over? Traffic in front of Georgetown Hospital already sucks at that hour.

It’s like the area the new school is being built in does not have enough students. Why are they building it? Mary Chen really screwed this up.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow Glover Park is totally F’d. Looks like 1/2 of Glover park will no longer go to Stoddert. Property values will take a big hit in those areas. I guess they will be bussing kids over to the new school or will parents have to drive them over? Traffic in front of Georgetown Hospital already sucks at that hour.

It’s like the area the new school is being built in does not have enough students. Why are they building it? Mary Chen really screwed this up.

How was the dinner party in Foxhall village? How many bottles of wine?

[Anonymous]

Buses?!?! Driving!?!

How exactly do you think current Foxhall/Palisades families get to school right now?

I am positively disgusted with the Stoddert convenience hoarding. Foxhall deserves a walkable elementary school just like every other neighborhood. We don't WANT to go to an expanded Stoddert.

There will have to be some compromises made if you live on the outskirts of the Stoddert boundaries. Shrug.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow Glover Park is totally F’d. Looks like 1/2 of Glover park will no longer go to Stoddert. Property values will take a big hit in those areas. I guess they will be bussing kids over to the new school or will parents have to drive them over? Traffic in front of Georgetown Hospital already sucks at that hour.

It’s like the area the new school is being built in does not have enough students. Why are they building it? Mary Chen really screwed this up.

Nah, temporary residency is cheaper. All you need is one paycheck at an airbnb in the catchment area. Most of us have friends that'd let us do that.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Buses?!?! Driving!?!

How exactly do you think current Foxhall/Palisades families get to school right now?

I am positively disgusted with the Stoddert convenience hoarding. Foxhall deserves a walkable elementary school just like every other neighborhood. We don't WANT to go to an expanded Stoddert.

There will have to be some compromises made if you live on the outskirts of the Stoddert boundaries. Shrug.

Yup, a 2 mile drive!

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Anonymous wrote:Wow Glover Park is totally F’d. Looks like 1/2 of Glover park will no longer go to Stoddert. Property values will take a big hit in those areas. I guess they will be bussing kids over to the new school or will parents have to drive them over? Traffic in front of Georgetown Hospital already sucks at that hour.

It’s like the area the new school is being built in does not have enough students. Why are they building it? Mary Chen really screwed this up.

Nah, temporary residency is cheaper. All you need is one paycheck at an airbnb in the catchment area. Most of us have friends that'd let us do that.

You don't even have to go that far. Just go into the HR portal at work, change your address and print a pay stub. Change it back before the next pay period and you're good.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow Glover Park is totally F’d. Looks like 1/2 of Glover park will no longer go to Stoddert. Property values will take a big hit in those areas. I guess they will be bussing kids over to the new school or will parents have to drive them over? Traffic in front of Georgetown Hospital already sucks at that hour.

It’s like the area the new school is being built in does not have enough students. Why are they building it? Mary Chen really screwed this up.

Nah, temporary residency is cheaper. All you need is one paycheck at an airbnb in the catchment area. Most of us have friends that'd let us do that.

You don't even have to go that far. Just go into the HR portal at work, change your address and print a pay stub. Change it back before the next pay period and you're good.

What lovely ethics.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Buses?!?! Driving!?!

How exactly do you think current Foxhall/Palisades families get to school right now?

I am positively disgusted with the Stoddert convenience hoarding. Foxhall deserves a walkable elementary school just like every other neighborhood. We don't WANT to go to an expanded Stoddert.

There will have to be some compromises made if you live on the outskirts of the Stoddert boundaries. Shrug.

That’s some weird entitlement for someone who bought into a neighborhood without a walkable elementary school.

(And, no, not every neighborhood has a walkable ES.)