Boundary Focus Groups

[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!

Agreed, but it is not the responsibility of parents to "fix" a school, much less an entire school system. Parents want the best for their kids and many are willing and some are as to help out directly in supporting schools. However it is the PROFESSIONAL educators and administrators ---people who have studied education and make their livelihoods in that space--who must fix the schools. It is absurd to put the fixing on the backs of parents. In what other profession are the customers expected to do all the work and devise all the solutions? In other fields customers make demands and if they don't get the product or service they desire they shop elsewhere...same with our schools...my local school stinks...well, we'll go charter or elsewhere. But you're not going to put the responsibility to fix my local school squarely in my lap, challenging me to risk my child's only shot at education and childhood on a crap shoot. I will pull my weight, I will be engaged, but I won't be forced or shamed into taking on a job that is not mine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Well, you make more that we do, PP, and we're not "struggling" to live in out WOTP neighborhood zone for good schools. Why don't you move IB?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Well, you make more that we do, PP, and we're not "struggling" to live in out WOTP neighborhood zone for good schools. Why don't you move IB?

NP. 20012 IS INBOUNDS! You are an idiot.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

hate to break it to you, but you're the only one who sees your skin color as relevant here. Black people have been oppressed horribly in this country in the past. They continue to be oppressed still. But this doesn't mean every moment away from doing what you want is another example of oppression.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

hate to break it to you, but you're the only one who sees your skin color as relevant here. Black people have been oppressed horribly in this country in the past. They continue to be oppressed still. But this doesn't mean every moment away from doing what you want is another example of oppression.

PP here again. Your son is exactly whom I want as a classmate to my children. But the problem of overcrowding remains and something needs to be done. Everyone says not us. So, if not you,(for the audience generally) then how do we solve the problem? Let's get off the whole they only want to kick us out cause we're black. I feel sorry for you if this is your belief and world view. Literally, I'm sad when I imagine myself viewing the world through your jaded eyes.

[Anonymous]

Every parent in every ward wants their child to go to a good school with other kids who are prepared and ready to learn. Right? So let's all send all our kids to Deal and Wilson. Too many kids? So whose kids don't get to go? Let's see some hands! Who is willing to sacrifice their own child for the sake of the system? Ward 4? Ward 3? Ward 7? Sounds good in theory but in practice few of us are willing to let our own kids be the experiment.

Now guess where I live.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Well, you make more that we do, PP, and we're not "struggling" to live in out WOTP neighborhood zone for good schools. Why don't you move IB?

NP. 20012 IS INBOUNDS! You are an idiot.

Not all of it. But, you're right. A lot of it is

I should have said, that the >300K family can afford to live IB for Deal no matter where the new boundary ends up beaing drawn.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

hate to break it to you, but you're the only one who sees your skin color as relevant here. Black people have been oppressed horribly in this country in the past. They continue to be oppressed still. But this doesn't mean every moment away from doing what you want is another example of oppression.

PP here again. Your son is exactly whom I want as a classmate to my children. But the problem of overcrowding remains and something needs to be done. Everyone says not us. So, if not you,(for the audience generally) then how do we solve the problem? Let's get off the whole they only want to kick us out cause we're black. I feel sorry for you if this is your belief and world view. Literally, I'm sad when I imagine myself viewing the world through your jaded eyes.

Unfortunately, I think you're not reading (or comprehending) all the posts on this thread. There have been plenty of posts that refer to my boy as unprepared. When you make blanket statements like those that have been made, there is no other conclusion you can come to.

[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. [/quote

If they do get rid of boundaries how are all the children getting to school? There us no busing. This effects the children in ward 8 too especially if they are sent to Mann or Key which are not metro accesable. And who is going to make the eofp remain top without all those parents who will no longer be invested in their neighborhood schools. There are not enough.high ses parents for all the schools. And if the boundaries are erased there is no gauarantee your child would go to a better school then your current neighborhood school whether you be in a wofp or eotp school. Getting rid of boundaries wont fix the situation.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Unfortunately, I think you're not reading (or comprehending) all the posts on this thread. There have been plenty of posts that refer to my boy as unprepared. When you make blanket statements like those that have been made, there is no other conclusion you can come to.

Quote one.

[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.

It is not the upper NW people who have created the us vs them dynamic. We send our kids to the neighbohood publics and gladly accept OOB when we can. There are zero charter option for us in Ward 3. It's all the center city folks who refuse to send their kids to publics and instead go charters. Sure they will tell you it's because little Johnny really wants to learn mandarin, but we know the real reason.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

It is not the upper NW people who have created the us vs them dynamic. We send our kids to the neighbohood publics and gladly accept OOB when we can. There are zero charter option for us in Ward 3. It's all the center city folks who refuse to send their kids to publics and instead go charters. Sure they will tell you it's because little Johnny really wants to learn mandarin, but we know the real reason.

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[Anonymous]

Re 20012.

I live 7/10ths of a mile from my door to Deal's door, in approx the 5300 block of 39th St Nw. When the leaves are off the trees, can see Deal's roof and cupola from my yard.

It takes me 4 minutes "door to door"'to get to Deal on a school morning in a car.

I am DYING to know how Mr $>300k gets there in 3 more minutes from across rock creek park. In a helicopter? Hovercraft?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

It is not the upper NW people who have created the us vs them dynamic. We send our kids to the neighbohood publics and gladly accept OOB when we can. There are zero charter option for us in Ward 3. It's all the center city folks who refuse to send their kids to publics and instead go charters. Sure they will tell you it's because little Johnny really wants to learn mandarin, but we know the real reason.

+1

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[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Re 20012.

I live 7/10ths of a mile from my door to Deal's door, in approx the 5300 block of 39th St Nw. When the leaves are off the trees, can see Deal's roof and cupola from my yard.

It takes me 4 minutes "door to door"'to get to Deal on a school morning in a car.

I am DYING to know how Mr $>300k gets there in 3 more minutes from across rock creek park. In a helicopter? Hovercraft?

NP here. Driving across the park is fast. I hesitate in posting this because I don't want traffic to pick up. But I make it to my kid's preschool on the Connecticut circle in Chevy Chase in 4 minutes.