Why is the Foxhall Community Citizens Association scared of public school children?

[Anonymous]

I have to give the Bowser administration credit, they've done a masterful job of pitting people against each other. We should all be mad at the mayor, she's the one who created this mess. But instead Stoddert parents are mad at Key and Mann parents, the FCCA is mad at the PCA, park users are mad at parents, and everyone is mad at DCPS and the Lab School.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have to give the Bowser administration credit, they've done a masterful job of pitting people against each other. We should all be mad at the mayor, she's the one who created this mess. But instead Stoddert parents are mad at Key and Mann parents, the FCCA is mad at the PCA, park users are mad at parents, and everyone is mad at DCPS and the Lab School.

Ha - genius!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have to give the Bowser administration credit, they've done a masterful job of pitting people against each other. We should all be mad at the mayor, she's the one who created this mess. But instead Stoddert parents are mad at Key and Mann parents, the FCCA is mad at the PCA, park users are mad at parents, and everyone is mad at DCPS and the Lab School.

Ha - genius!

I've been called many things on DCUM, but never genius. Thank you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have to give the Bowser administration credit, they've done a masterful job of pitting people against each other. We should all be mad at the mayor, she's the one who created this mess. But instead Stoddert parents are mad at Key and Mann parents, the FCCA is mad at the PCA, park users are mad at parents, and everyone is mad at DCPS and the Lab School.

It’s a good point. And it’s not beyond the realm of possibility that the FCCA is being manipulated a little bit. The then President of the FCCA was claiming in 2019 that they’d been informed that Old Hardy could be repurposed as a homeless shelter or public high school if LAB didn’t get the building. That’s still a bad reason for doing what they did, but it does explain it a little bit.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have to give the Bowser administration credit, they've done a masterful job of pitting people against each other. We should all be mad at the mayor, she's the one who created this mess. But instead Stoddert parents are mad at Key and Mann parents, the FCCA is mad at the PCA, park users are mad at parents, and everyone is mad at DCPS and the Lab School.

It’s a good point. And it’s not beyond the realm of possibility that the FCCA is being manipulated a little bit. The then President of the FCCA was claiming in 2019 that they’d been informed that Old Hardy could be repurposed as a homeless shelter or public high school if LAB didn’t get the building. That’s still a bad reason for doing what they did, but it does explain it a little bit.

Having been to some of those meetings I got the impression he was "informed" by nothing more than the voices in his head.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have to give the Bowser administration credit, they've done a masterful job of pitting people against each other. We should all be mad at the mayor, she's the one who created this mess. But instead Stoddert parents are mad at Key and Mann parents, the FCCA is mad at the PCA, park users are mad at parents, and everyone is mad at DCPS and the Lab School.

It’s a good point. And it’s not beyond the realm of possibility that the FCCA is being manipulated a little bit. The then President of the FCCA was claiming in 2019 that they’d been informed that Old Hardy could be repurposed as a homeless shelter or public high school if LAB didn’t get the building. That’s still a bad reason for doing what they did, but it does explain it a little bit.

Having been to some of those meetings I got the impression he was "informed" by nothing more than the voices in his head.

Conspiracies are a fun way of rationalizing otherwise inexplicable behavior but more prosaic human frailties tend to be the more likely explanation. So, yes, you are probably right.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I have to give the Bowser administration credit, they've done a masterful job of pitting people against each other. We should all be mad at the mayor, she's the one who created this mess. But instead Stoddert parents are mad at Key and Mann parents, the FCCA is mad at the PCA, park users are mad at parents, and everyone is mad at DCPS and the Lab School.

We haven't seen anything yet. Just wait till they start redrawing the boundaries for everyone next year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have to give the Bowser administration credit, they've done a masterful job of pitting people against each other. We should all be mad at the mayor, she's the one who created this mess. But instead Stoddert parents are mad at Key and Mann parents, the FCCA is mad at the PCA, park users are mad at parents, and everyone is mad at DCPS and the Lab School.

We haven't seen anything yet. Just wait till they start redrawing the boundaries for everyone next year.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have to give the Bowser administration credit, they've done a masterful job of pitting people against each other. We should all be mad at the mayor, she's the one who created this mess. But instead Stoddert parents are mad at Key and Mann parents, the FCCA is mad at the PCA, park users are mad at parents, and everyone is mad at DCPS and the Lab School.

We haven't seen anything yet. Just wait till they start redrawing the boundaries for everyone next year.

+1

Vote Bowser out. She is truly a piece of work in every evil sense of the phrase.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have to give the Bowser administration credit, they've done a masterful job of pitting people against each other. We should all be mad at the mayor, she's the one who created this mess. But instead Stoddert parents are mad at Key and Mann parents, the FCCA is mad at the PCA, park users are mad at parents, and everyone is mad at DCPS and the Lab School.

We haven't seen anything yet. Just wait till they start redrawing the boundaries for everyone next year.

+1

This is going to be a bloodbath unless they somehow figure out how to expand stoddert. I have a feeling this new school isn't going to built anytime soon due to incoming lawsuits.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have to give the Bowser administration credit, they've done a masterful job of pitting people against each other. We should all be mad at the mayor, she's the one who created this mess. But instead Stoddert parents are mad at Key and Mann parents, the FCCA is mad at the PCA, park users are mad at parents, and everyone is mad at DCPS and the Lab School.

We haven't seen anything yet. Just wait till they start redrawing the boundaries for everyone next year.

+1

This is going to be a bloodbath unless they somehow figure out how to expand stoddert. I have a feeling this new school isn't going to built anytime soon due to incoming lawsuits.

Lawsuits from whom? FCCA? Good way to bankrupt themselves.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have to give the Bowser administration credit, they've done a masterful job of pitting people against each other. We should all be mad at the mayor, she's the one who created this mess. But instead Stoddert parents are mad at Key and Mann parents, the FCCA is mad at the PCA, park users are mad at parents, and everyone is mad at DCPS and the Lab School.

We haven't seen anything yet. Just wait till they start redrawing the boundaries for everyone next year.

+1

This is going to be a bloodbath unless they somehow figure out how to expand stoddert. I have a feeling this new school isn't going to built anytime soon due to incoming lawsuits.

I can't think of a legal theory that wouldn't get laughed out of court. Despite what the Foxhall neighbors believe, neighbors to publicly owned land don't have veto power over how it's used.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have to give the Bowser administration credit, they've done a masterful job of pitting people against each other. We should all be mad at the mayor, she's the one who created this mess. But instead Stoddert parents are mad at Key and Mann parents, the FCCA is mad at the PCA, park users are mad at parents, and everyone is mad at DCPS and the Lab School.

We haven't seen anything yet. Just wait till they start redrawing the boundaries for everyone next year.

+1

This is going to be a bloodbath unless they somehow figure out how to expand stoddert. I have a feeling this new school isn't going to built anytime soon due to incoming lawsuits.

I can't think of a legal theory that wouldn't get laughed out of court. Despite what the Foxhall neighbors believe, neighbors to publicly owned land don't have veto power over how it's used.

Just watch them try. And if they do, I will personally summon of the spirit of the dearly departed Rep. William Natcher to conjure up the second coming of the Three Sisters Bridge project and smite their entire silly little faux-Tudor enclave.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:This is going to be a bloodbath unless they somehow figure out how to expand stoddert. I have a feeling this new school isn't going to built anytime soon due to incoming lawsuits.

I can't think of a legal theory that wouldn't get laughed out of court. Despite what the Foxhall neighbors believe, neighbors to publicly owned land don't have veto power over how it's used.

Your Honor, our property values . . .

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I have to give the Bowser administration credit, they've done a masterful job of pitting people against each other. We should all be mad at the mayor, she's the one who created this mess. But instead Stoddert parents are mad at Key and Mann parents, the FCCA is mad at the PCA, park users are mad at parents, and everyone is mad at DCPS and the Lab School.

We haven't seen anything yet. Just wait till they start redrawing the boundaries for everyone next year.

+1

This is going to be a bloodbath unless they somehow figure out how to expand stoddert. I have a feeling this new school isn't going to built anytime soon due to incoming lawsuits.

How are they going to expand Stoddert? The planned renovation was going to swap trailers for permanent space and include some space to actually have art and music in the building. Expanding further would likely mean building on the DPR land there... So just shifting the fight about park land to a different park. And the DPR land at Stoddert, unlike Hardy, might actually be owned by the Feds, as most of the park land in Ward 3 is.