Boundary Study Townhalls - first one starts now

[Anonymous]

DCPS has modernized more schools than just McArthur: https://dgs.dc.gov/page/dcps-school-projects

When you tell half the story, people take you a lot less seriously. Should Whittier have jumped to the top of the list? Maybe. But I don’t think McArthur prevented it from doing so. Also, there are only so many swing spaces in the city. I truly believe you have a valid argument that Whittier needs renovating, but don’t dilute it by complaining about the swing space that everyone gets routed to.

[Anonymous]

Yawn.

[Anonymous]

Question for the Whittier poster - were you not aware of the crappy building and rats before you enrolled your child? Another question- once you became aware, did you choose to keep your child there, with no assurances from anyone that the situation was going to change? If the answer to either one of these questions is yes, then sit down somewhere and focus on making some choices that will actually help your child rather than complaining into the void of DCUM. Move or play the lottery. It gets so tiring when people refuse to play the cards they’ve been dealt. Assume nothing will change in DCPS and be surprised when it does. Make your choices accordingly (and if you are posting here, you probably do have choices)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Question for the Whittier poster - were you not aware of the crappy building and rats before you enrolled your child? Another question- once you became aware, did you choose to keep your child there, with no assurances from anyone that the situation was going to change? If the answer to either one of these questions is yes, then sit down somewhere and focus on making some choices that will actually help your child rather than complaining into the void of DCUM. Move or play the lottery. It gets so tiring when people refuse to play the cards they’ve been dealt. Assume nothing will change in DCPS and be surprised when it does. Make your choices accordingly (and if you are posting here, you probably do have choices)

But why should any child have to go to a school with a building full of rats? It's not acceptable, and not just for people with options who can opt out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Question for the Whittier poster - were you not aware of the crappy building and rats before you enrolled your child? Another question- once you became aware, did you choose to keep your child there, with no assurances from anyone that the situation was going to change? If the answer to either one of these questions is yes, then sit down somewhere and focus on making some choices that will actually help your child rather than complaining into the void of DCUM. Move or play the lottery. It gets so tiring when people refuse to play the cards they’ve been dealt. Assume nothing will change in DCPS and be surprised when it does. Make your choices accordingly (and if you are posting here, you probably do have choices)

So you are a Dc resident who is okay with young children going to school with rats and air quality issues? If the answer is yes, it gets tiring to hear your constant virtue signaling and see your yard signs and know you just don’t actually care.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Question for the Whittier poster - were you not aware of the crappy building and rats before you enrolled your child? Another question- once you became aware, did you choose to keep your child there, with no assurances from anyone that the situation was going to change? If the answer to either one of these questions is yes, then sit down somewhere and focus on making some choices that will actually help your child rather than complaining into the void of DCUM. Move or play the lottery. It gets so tiring when people refuse to play the cards they’ve been dealt. Assume nothing will change in DCPS and be surprised when it does. Make your choices accordingly (and if you are posting here, you probably do have choices)

Not having a moral compass must be an incredibly hard cross for you to bear. Your poor family. Speaking of financially poor families, DC does not have school buses - which means they have rely on unreliable public transportation. Not everyone has a car. Moreover, the mayor, Janeese Lewis George, the head of DGS, and sundry visited Whittier and assured the school and parents, that the Rats of NIMH would be banished. They have not been -while Chevy Chase parents whine about not having a specialty ECE center set up smack on the CC,MD border. Now that IS incredibly emotionally exhausting.

[Anonymous]

I’m new to DC and confused.

Why don’t students attend their in-boundary school? Why send your child across town to Jackson-Reed or other schools?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Question for the Whittier poster - were you not aware of the crappy building and rats before you enrolled your child? Another question- once you became aware, did you choose to keep your child there, with no assurances from anyone that the situation was going to change? If the answer to either one of these questions is yes, then sit down somewhere and focus on making some choices that will actually help your child rather than complaining into the void of DCUM. Move or play the lottery. It gets so tiring when people refuse to play the cards they’ve been dealt. Assume nothing will change in DCPS and be surprised when it does. Make your choices accordingly (and if you are posting here, you probably do have choices)

I am a Whittier parent and we didn’t get in to any other school in the lottery. You know that happens right? This is why people complain about upper NW parents not actually giving a crap about anyone else. But when their Petunia doesn’t get into a higher level math class then burn the whole system down.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’m new to DC and confused.

Why don’t students attend their in-boundary school? Why send your child across town to Jackson-Reed or other schools?

You can go to your in-bound or you can try to lottery into another school (DCPS or charter). DCPS has a lot of crap schools, so people try to lottery elsewhere.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Question for the Whittier poster - were you not aware of the crappy building and rats before you enrolled your child? Another question- once you became aware, did you choose to keep your child there, with no assurances from anyone that the situation was going to change? If the answer to either one of these questions is yes, then sit down somewhere and focus on making some choices that will actually help your child rather than complaining into the void of DCUM. Move or play the lottery. It gets so tiring when people refuse to play the cards they’ve been dealt. Assume nothing will change in DCPS and be surprised when it does. Make your choices accordingly (and if you are posting here, you probably do have choices)

I am a Whittier parent and we didn’t get in to any other school in the lottery. You know that happens right? This is why people complain about upper NW parents not actually giving a crap about anyone else. But when their Petunia doesn’t get into a higher level math class then burn the whole system down.

Y’all are missing the point. The very thing you hate about the NW parents is that they are not afraid to go crazy over anything they think is not in line with an ideal education. So the thing that you hate about them is what makes them so successful. And they don’t really spend their time unleashing their crazy to this forum (even if it seems like it…I know a few like to argue here). They mostly unleash their crazy on school admin, city council, DCPS, the Mayor’s office, the Washington Post, etc.

So here is my advice. And I am being serious not snarky. Instead of analyzing on here your various levels of hate of this kind of parent behavior and then wishing their kids would go to your school so they can do the “crazy” work for your school…spend your time adopting a little “crazy” and going after the people who can do something. Maybe email the PTA’s of these places and ask for advice on how to be as crazy as they are. Do you really think they would embarrass themselves in this way if it didn’t work to go ape s**t if they don’t get nice buildings, AP course offerings and the like?

It’s not the zero sum game you think it is. There is room for every school to succeed. DCPS/government is lazy with your school because they can be. You are model parents to them. Gold star. And what do you get for it?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Question for the Whittier poster - were you not aware of the crappy building and rats before you enrolled your child? Another question- once you became aware, did you choose to keep your child there, with no assurances from anyone that the situation was going to change? If the answer to either one of these questions is yes, then sit down somewhere and focus on making some choices that will actually help your child rather than complaining into the void of DCUM. Move or play the lottery. It gets so tiring when people refuse to play the cards they’ve been dealt. Assume nothing will change in DCPS and be surprised when it does. Make your choices accordingly (and if you are posting here, you probably do have choices)

I am a Whittier parent and we didn’t get in to any other school in the lottery. You know that happens right? This is why people complain about upper NW parents not actually giving a crap about anyone else. But when their Petunia doesn’t get into a higher level math class then burn the whole system down.

Y’all are missing the point. The very thing you hate about the NW parents is that they are not afraid to go crazy over anything they think is not in line with an ideal education. So the thing that you hate about them is what makes them so successful. And they don’t really spend their time unleashing their crazy to this forum (even if it seems like it…I know a few like to argue here). They mostly unleash their crazy on school admin, city council, DCPS, the Mayor’s office, the Washington Post, etc.

So here is my advice. And I am being serious not snarky. Instead of analyzing on here your various levels of hate of this kind of parent behavior and then wishing their kids would go to your school so they can do the “crazy” work for your school…spend your time adopting a little “crazy” and going after the people who can do something. Maybe email the PTA’s of these places and ask for advice on how to be as crazy as they are. Do you really think they would embarrass themselves in this way if it didn’t work to go ape s**t if they don’t get nice buildings, AP course offerings and the like?

It’s not the zero sum game you think it is. There is room for every school to succeed. DCPS/government is lazy with your school because they can be. You are model parents to them. Gold star. And what do you get for it?

New to this convo, but if anyone asked me to explain the DCUM population, I'd just show them the screenshot I took. 10/10 crazy

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Question for the Whittier poster - were you not aware of the crappy building and rats before you enrolled your child? Another question- once you became aware, did you choose to keep your child there, with no assurances from anyone that the situation was going to change? If the answer to either one of these questions is yes, then sit down somewhere and focus on making some choices that will actually help your child rather than complaining into the void of DCUM. Move or play the lottery. It gets so tiring when people refuse to play the cards they’ve been dealt. Assume nothing will change in DCPS and be surprised when it does. Make your choices accordingly (and if you are posting here, you probably do have choices)

I am a Whittier parent and we didn’t get in to any other school in the lottery. You know that happens right? This is why people complain about upper NW parents not actually giving a crap about anyone else. But when their Petunia doesn’t get into a higher level math class then burn the whole system down.

Y’all are missing the point. The very thing you hate about the NW parents is that they are not afraid to go crazy over anything they think is not in line with an ideal education. So the thing that you hate about them is what makes them so successful. And they don’t really spend their time unleashing their crazy to this forum (even if it seems like it…I know a few like to argue here). They mostly unleash their crazy on school admin, city council, DCPS, the Mayor’s office, the Washington Post, etc.

So here is my advice. And I am being serious not snarky. Instead of analyzing on here your various levels of hate of this kind of parent behavior and then wishing their kids would go to your school so they can do the “crazy” work for your school…spend your time adopting a little “crazy” and going after the people who can do something. Maybe email the PTA’s of these places and ask for advice on how to be as crazy as they are. Do you really think they would embarrass themselves in this way if it didn’t work to go ape s**t if they don’t get nice buildings, AP course offerings and the like?

It’s not the zero sum game you think it is. There is room for every school to succeed. DCPS/government is lazy with your school because they can be. You are model parents to them. Gold star. And what do you get for it?

New to this convo, but if anyone asked me to explain the DCUM population, I'd just show them the screenshot I took. 10/10 crazy

Sure. There are crazies here. My point is that being crazy here gets you very little. Being crazy with public officials gets you a lot.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Question for the Whittier poster - were you not aware of the crappy building and rats before you enrolled your child? Another question- once you became aware, did you choose to keep your child there, with no assurances from anyone that the situation was going to change? If the answer to either one of these questions is yes, then sit down somewhere and focus on making some choices that will actually help your child rather than complaining into the void of DCUM. Move or play the lottery. It gets so tiring when people refuse to play the cards they’ve been dealt. Assume nothing will change in DCPS and be surprised when it does. Make your choices accordingly (and if you are posting here, you probably do have choices)

I am a Whittier parent and we didn’t get in to any other school in the lottery. You know that happens right? This is why people complain about upper NW parents not actually giving a crap about anyone else. But when their Petunia doesn’t get into a higher level math class then burn the whole system down.

Y’all are missing the point. The very thing you hate about the NW parents is that they are not afraid to go crazy over anything they think is not in line with an ideal education. So the thing that you hate about them is what makes them so successful. And they don’t really spend their time unleashing their crazy to this forum (even if it seems like it…I know a few like to argue here). They mostly unleash their crazy on school admin, city council, DCPS, the Mayor’s office, the Washington Post, etc.

So here is my advice. And I am being serious not snarky. Instead of analyzing on here your various levels of hate of this kind of parent behavior and then wishing their kids would go to your school so they can do the “crazy” work for your school…spend your time adopting a little “crazy” and going after the people who can do something. Maybe email the PTA’s of these places and ask for advice on how to be as crazy as they are. Do you really think they would embarrass themselves in this way if it didn’t work to go ape s**t if they don’t get nice buildings, AP course offerings and the like?

It’s not the zero sum game you think it is. There is room for every school to succeed. DCPS/government is lazy with your school because they can be. You are model parents to them. Gold star. And what do you get for it?

New to this convo, but if anyone asked me to explain the DCUM population, I'd just show them the screenshot I took. 10/10 crazy

Sure. There are crazies here. My point is that being crazy here gets you very little. Being crazy with public officials gets you a lot.

So much ignorance to unpack. Whittier is in NW. NW does not begin and end with Chevy Chase and Glover Park. MC kids not IB for Deal/J-R/ the new “Palisades Prep,” are spending hours in the car every day commuting to Hyde-Addison and Hearst just for a chance to attend Hardy or Deal. We are doing are part - and we are making noise - but we are also going to call out the hypocrisy of out of ward feeders, double optional feeders, entitled behavior from Chevy Chase, Bancroft, Shepherd, JkLM, etc. etc.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Question for the Whittier poster - were you not aware of the crappy building and rats before you enrolled your child? Another question- once you became aware, did you choose to keep your child there, with no assurances from anyone that the situation was going to change? If the answer to either one of these questions is yes, then sit down somewhere and focus on making some choices that will actually help your child rather than complaining into the void of DCUM. Move or play the lottery. It gets so tiring when people refuse to play the cards they’ve been dealt. Assume nothing will change in DCPS and be surprised when it does. Make your choices accordingly (and if you are posting here, you probably do have choices)

I am a Whittier parent and we didn’t get in to any other school in the lottery. You know that happens right? This is why people complain about upper NW parents not actually giving a crap about anyone else. But when their Petunia doesn’t get into a higher level math class then burn the whole system down.

Y’all are missing the point. The very thing you hate about the NW parents is that they are not afraid to go crazy over anything they think is not in line with an ideal education. So the thing that you hate about them is what makes them so successful. And they don’t really spend their time unleashing their crazy to this forum (even if it seems like it…I know a few like to argue here). They mostly unleash their crazy on school admin, city council, DCPS, the Mayor’s office, the Washington Post, etc.

So here is my advice. And I am being serious not snarky. Instead of analyzing on here your various levels of hate of this kind of parent behavior and then wishing their kids would go to your school so they can do the “crazy” work for your school…spend your time adopting a little “crazy” and going after the people who can do something. Maybe email the PTA’s of these places and ask for advice on how to be as crazy as they are. Do you really think they would embarrass themselves in this way if it didn’t work to go ape s**t if they don’t get nice buildings, AP course offerings and the like?

It’s not the zero sum game you think it is. There is room for every school to succeed. DCPS/government is lazy with your school because they can be. You are model parents to them. Gold star. And what do you get for it?

New to this convo, but if anyone asked me to explain the DCUM population, I'd just show them the screenshot I took. 10/10 crazy

Sure. There are crazies here. My point is that being crazy here gets you very little. Being crazy with public officials gets you a lot.

So much ignorance to unpack. Whittier is in NW. NW does not begin and end with Chevy Chase and Glover Park. MC kids not IB for Deal/J-R/ the new “Palisades Prep,” are spending hours in the car every day commuting to Hyde-Addison and Hearst just for a chance to attend Hardy or Deal. We are doing are part - and we are making noise - but we are also going to call out the hypocrisy of out of ward feeders, double optional feeders, entitled behavior from Chevy Chase, Bancroft, Shepherd, JkLM, etc. etc.

What are these?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Question for the Whittier poster - were you not aware of the crappy building and rats before you enrolled your child? Another question- once you became aware, did you choose to keep your child there, with no assurances from anyone that the situation was going to change? If the answer to either one of these questions is yes, then sit down somewhere and focus on making some choices that will actually help your child rather than complaining into the void of DCUM. Move or play the lottery. It gets so tiring when people refuse to play the cards they’ve been dealt. Assume nothing will change in DCPS and be surprised when it does. Make your choices accordingly (and if you are posting here, you probably do have choices)

I am a Whittier parent and we didn’t get in to any other school in the lottery. You know that happens right? This is why people complain about upper NW parents not actually giving a crap about anyone else. But when their Petunia doesn’t get into a higher level math class then burn the whole system down.

Y’all are missing the point. The very thing you hate about the NW parents is that they are not afraid to go crazy over anything they think is not in line with an ideal education. So the thing that you hate about them is what makes them so successful. And they don’t really spend their time unleashing their crazy to this forum (even if it seems like it…I know a few like to argue here). They mostly unleash their crazy on school admin, city council, DCPS, the Mayor’s office, the Washington Post, etc.

So here is my advice. And I am being serious not snarky. Instead of analyzing on here your various levels of hate of this kind of parent behavior and then wishing their kids would go to your school so they can do the “crazy” work for your school…spend your time adopting a little “crazy” and going after the people who can do something. Maybe email the PTA’s of these places and ask for advice on how to be as crazy as they are. Do you really think they would embarrass themselves in this way if it didn’t work to go ape s**t if they don’t get nice buildings, AP course offerings and the like?

It’s not the zero sum game you think it is. There is room for every school to succeed. DCPS/government is lazy with your school because they can be. You are model parents to them. Gold star. And what do you get for it?

New to this convo, but if anyone asked me to explain the DCUM population, I'd just show them the screenshot I took. 10/10 crazy

Sure. There are crazies here. My point is that being crazy here gets you very little. Being crazy with public officials gets you a lot.

So much ignorance to unpack. Whittier is in NW. NW does not begin and end with Chevy Chase and Glover Park. MC kids not IB for Deal/J-R/ the new “Palisades Prep,” are spending hours in the car every day commuting to Hyde-Addison and Hearst just for a chance to attend Hardy or Deal. We are doing are part - and we are making noise - but we are also going to call out the hypocrisy of out of ward feeders, double optional feeders, entitled behavior from Chevy Chase, Bancroft, Shepherd, JkLM, etc. etc.

You keep on keeping on then. Sounds like you got it all figured out.