Boundary Focus Groups

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:According to a Post article on Nov 15, the Mayor has the ultimate authority to change the boundaries and he/she can do without the input of the Council. The Chancellor and DCPS are running the process but the Mayor is not without power or influence.

The process is run by the Deputy Mayor for Education.

http://dme.dc.gov/DC/DME/Initiatives+and+Priorities/Statewide+Commission+on+Children+Youth+and+Their+Families/Student+Assignment+and+School+Boundaries+Review+Process

Read the letter to parents and community members a link to which included in the document you cite. The Committee will "provide fair minded and informed recommendations to be presented in May 2014." Provide to whom? The Mayor!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

PS, I don't think you've seen SP in a while, is not filled with Jewish families and old folks. In fact, I'd argue that SP is one of if not the most diverse neighborhoods in DC.

You can try arguing this, but I don't believe the data bear your argument.
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Indeed, ANC 1A, among others, are more diverse. Keep trying to make unsubstantiated claims about how exceptional Ward 4, or Shephard Park, is. This is like playing with a pinata.

[Anonymous]

Deal and Wilson are overcrowded. Other schools are underused. These are indisputable. What is your solution?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The failure of parents to take responsibility for their kids or in some cases not have kids at all is EXACTLY the reason we have to go through this whole boundary exercise. If the parents WofTP are so horrible, why is the rest of the city beating down the gates to come to our schools? It's not for the bricks and mortar or the teachers at the schools because that can be replicated elsewhere. No, you want your kids to be near our kids who we have taken the time to be prepared and motivated to learn. Just admit it. Stop using these 1960's equity arguments that have no application to 2014 DC where AA leaders sill control the council and DCPS and the schools EofTP are well funded.

No, it's the us vs them attitude that most WOTP parents exhibit that make the rest of the city resent.

+1000. It is disgusting. WotP parents do not care about anything beyond their little myopic community.

[Anonymous]

Do you care about yours? Fix the schools EOTP.

[Anonymous]

There is what I want for my child and then there is the reality of segregation that has defined educational opportunity in this city. You can make all the claims that you want about what rights you have to a school because of what you paid for your house or what percentage go where, but I don't think we can ignore that this city has a pretty awful history of exclusion. It was only when I read the history in the policy draft that I realized how much this overshadows this process. It is worth reading:

http://dme.dc.gov/DC/DME/Publication%20Files/Policy%20Brief%201%20-%20DC%20Student%20Assignment%20and%20Choice%20Policy%20DRAFT.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you care about yours? Fix the schools EOTP.

You suck. Seriously grow a heart and a brain please. Do you in your deepest self really believe that schools suck because parents don't care about their kids? That is astounding

[Anonymous]

Honestly these comments are so self serving it's sad. For some parents it's not that they don't care about their kids but maybe they are more concerned with where their next meal is coming from. Show some empathy and teach your children to be compassionate.

[Anonymous]

What's compassionate about making a kid commute 2+ hours a day on a failing transit system to attend Deal? Over the course of a school year that child could have received the equivalent of 3 weeks more school instruction at their neighborhood school. Enough with these OOB band aid solutions and let's fix the EocTP schools already!

[Anonymous]

Some posters act as if the only problem east of the park is that people put their kids on buses to Deal. If only we would stop that "lazy" way of educating our kids, all would be fine.

[Anonymous]

It doesn't matter if its motivated by SES or preparedness instead of race: segregating high performers & concentrating them into a few schools is still "every man for himself."

In this particular city, it is also effectively results in racial segregation, so the impact is racist even if the intent is not.

(FWIW, we are a moderate-SES family living EOTP & sending our kid to an EOTP school, where she is doing just fine. I went to private school WOTP, & I want something different for my child.)

[Anonymous]

DCPS is not "segregating" and "concentrating" the high performing kids. The kids are just walking down the street to their neighborhood school. No nefarious plan here, sorry to disappoint.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Do you care about yours? Fix the schools EOTP.

I really hope all you upper north west people continue your campaign to create an us and them dynamic using the park as a dividing line. This continual mantra will only serve to push DCPS to a new system where boundaries are erased entirely because the existing boundaries are simply becoming too toxic to remain in place.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:What's compassionate about making a kid commute 2+ hours a day on a failing transit system to attend Deal? Over the course of a school year that child could have received the equivalent of 3 weeks more school instruction at their neighborhood school. Enough with these OOB band aid solutions and let's fix the EocTP schools already!

Please! My kid gets to Deal in 7 minutes door to door but because his skin is brown and his zip code is 20012, he's considered "unprepared" on these these threads. Forget that his parents earn >$300k and he has scored advanced on every subject since he started tested.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Do you care about yours? Fix the schools EOTP.

I really hope all you upper north west people continue your campaign to create an us and them dynamic using the park as a dividing line. This continual mantra will only serve to push DCPS to a new system where boundaries are erased entirely because the existing boundaries are simply becoming too toxic to remain in place.

Yes and the bigots that are afraid to send their kids to school with people that don't look like them will move to the Commonwealth!