Bowser throws shade at Lafayette parents

[Anonymous]

She's awful but she is--incredibly--the best we've got. Ugh.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I mean, this is kind of funny and true.

But it's also not like we are going to get someone better as a mayor.

Bowser is a failure. Robert White would make a far better mayor.

[Anonymous]

i overall like her

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I mean, this is kind of funny and true.

But it's also not like we are going to get someone better as a mayor.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I mean, this is kind of funny and true.

But it's also not like we are going to get someone better as a mayor.

Bowser is a failure. Robert White would make a far better mayor.

-1. Schools would still be closed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:the difficulty here is that more than one of these things can be true.

Lafayette can be full.

The Military Road School location is across Rock Creek Park. It's really not close to Lafayette.

Rock Creek Park has been a boundary of residential, racial, social, class, segregation.

The neighborhoods right near Military Road School are also full of students; the building is literally just down 14th from a row of huge apartment buildings and an area with many Spanish-speaking families with needs that include preschool options.

So who's in the wrong for asking for what they want? Who should get scarce resources?

(In my opinion, just mine, I think I'd favor the needs of lower-income families right near the school location over those of Lafayette. BUT when a school like Lafayette is huge, full, and overcrowded - you do have to do SOMETHING.)

You clearly don't live near Military ELC. Brightwood is a stone's throw away and clears its pre-K waitlist every year. There are charters all around, many undersubscribed. Our preschools are not full, we have options. Don't pity us for our huge apartment buildings full of Spanish speakers. Lafayette didn't turn up their nose at Military out of altruism to underserved communities. You're saying "who is in the wrong for asking for what they want" but you invented that EOTP parents were asking for the building in the first place.

Lafayette wanted a dedicated preschool to alleviate overcrowding. They were offered one, but got scared that it was a slippery slope to leaving the Deal-Wilson pattern. So they declined and instead asked for building that was not for sale. Now they're back asking why nobody cares about their overcrowding. The answer is because they didn't seem to care, at least not really.

+1

To all of these. EOTP is littered with charters and schools for PK3 and 4. And no the military road building is not that far from Lafayette. Yes it’s across the park and on a busy street but it’s not such a crazy drive. It’s just across the park. And parents at Lafayette MUST be able to walk to school. So yeah you are overcrowded.

[Anonymous]

This is a weird situation. While I get that she's implying that Lafayette parents don't want to send their kids to school EOTP (which, I'm sure many don't), it's also REALLY BAD to have a mini-Lafayette across from Brightwood. Those optics would be bad, and the outcomes would be disparate.

[Anonymous]

her comment seems honest. they offered a solution - not the greatest solution. it is literally across the park (a commute). getting into all the reasons lafayette families apparently hated this option is best "leave that there" (the city and schools generally have a lot of other problems on her high-level plate right now).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is a weird situation. While I get that she's implying that Lafayette parents don't want to send their kids to school EOTP (which, I'm sure many don't), it's also REALLY BAD to have a mini-Lafayette across from Brightwood. Those optics would be bad, and the outcomes would be disparate.

This was not the concern at all. (Sidenote: What outcomes are you imagining being so disparate in a Pre-K classroom anyway? Parents are famously satisfied with DCPS ECE wherever the program is found.) Lafayette parents thought that if they demonstrated any willingness whatsoever to drive East, they'd be pulled out of Deal-Wilson with SES and used to create a cohort that could establish a third high-performing by-right middle school (and 2nd high school) in DCPS. Rather than risk that remote outcome, they stayed in daycare another year.

[Anonymous]

Easier for Bowser to throw shade than make tough decisions about DCPS. You know, govern.

[Anonymous]

Lafayette parents thought that if they demonstrated any willingness whatsoever to drive East, they'd be pulled out of Deal-Wilson with SES and used to create a cohort that could establish a third high-performing by-right middle school (and 2nd high school) in DCPS. Rather than risk that remote outcome, they stayed in daycare another year.

This poster is spot on. Whatever the stated reasons (driving, walking, optics, blah) this ^^^ is the bottom line.

And, they're not wrong at all about the risk.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Easier for Bowser to throw shade than make tough decisions about DCPS. You know, govern.

Ok — so what exactly would have been the “tough” decision for her to have made with respect to this?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Easier for Bowser to throw shade than make tough decisions about DCPS. You know, govern.

Ok — so what exactly would have been the “tough” decision for her to have made with respect to this?

Re-draw some boundaries so schools are not overcrowded. Too politically difficult.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Easier for Bowser to throw shade than make tough decisions about DCPS. You know, govern.

Ok — so what exactly would have been the “tough” decision for her to have made with respect to this?

Re-draw some boundaries so schools are not overcrowded. Too politically difficult.

Is that what people in the Lafayette zone actually want? To shrink the geographic size of the zone and shift kids in it to other zones?

[Anonymous]

it seems like there is a need for a third middle school and second high school. its funny for parents of pre-k kids to already be so vehemently stacked against this type of change.