Why don't out of boundary parents work on their own schools?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Real life parent here. I'm OB! Proudly pay my real estate taxes for more than one parcel of real estate in DC, proudly pay for your kid (especially those of you living in apartments or renting houses in ward 2 and 3), and proudly took advantage of a better public school education in Ward 3 (also volunteered as a parent). No thank you necessary, all paid for.

Wow, the trolleration continues. You do realize that renters pay real estate taxes, right? It's not like building owners just pay real estate taxes on behalf of their renters out of benevolence. The real estate taxes are included in the rent and paid out of rental income. I haven't entered this thread because it is ridiculous, but come on.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Real life parent here. I'm OB! Proudly pay my real estate taxes for more than one parcel of real estate in DC, proudly pay for your kid (especially those of you living in apartments or renting houses in ward 2 and 3), and proudly took advantage of a better public school education in Ward 3 (also volunteered as a parent). No thank you necessary, all paid for.

Another real life parent. You have NO right. None. Zero. To claim that because you own property are more worthy than someone else.

This is one of the most offensive threads I have read in a really long time. Takes the cake.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:well said OP well said, some will do amazing things to make changes others will quit and go the path of least resistance. I am with you,. improve your own school or be able to afford to live in the area where you want your kid to go to school.

Ha! If kids hadn't gone OOB to the schools dd attended wotp, those schools would have shut down. Those schools needed kids like my dd and they still do today.

Ha! And, if the WOTP families fled in the 80s and 90s then the tax base would have collapsed and the city would have gone bankrupt. So, it's kind of a wash. Don't you think?

No connection at all there. But keep trying.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Real life parent here. I'm OB! Proudly pay my real estate taxes for more than one parcel of real estate in DC, proudly pay for your kid (especially those of you living in apartments or renting houses in ward 2 and 3), and proudly took advantage of a better public school education in Ward 3 (also volunteered as a parent). No thank you necessary, all paid for.

Former OOB mom here. I support your right as OOB to send your kid to a Ward 3 school but I want to remind you that renters pay property taxes indirectly as part of their rent.

[Anonymous]

For OP and others who don't want OOB kids at their schools: you are not living in the right place. Move to VA or MD.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:For OP and others who don't want OOB kids at their schools: you are not living in the right place. Move to VA or MD.

That doesn't make sense either. Those schools VA or MD typically have more SES and racial diversity than the JKLMMs. There are plenty of town homes and apartments mixed in with most of the good school zones, unless you target an area like Mclean or Whitman pyramid. My point is, don't lump all people who do not live in DC (though I do) with people like this OP. That is not fair to the people in VA and MD.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:For OP and others who don't want OOB kids at their schools: you are not living in the right place. Move to VA or MD.

That doesn't make sense either. Those schools VA or MD typically have more SES and racial diversity than the JKLMMs. There are plenty of town homes and apartments mixed in with most of the good school zones, unless you target an area like Mclean or Whitman pyramid. My point is, don't lump all people who do not live in DC (though I do) with people like this OP. That is not fair to the people in VA and MD.

Well, there are tradeoffs in life. You can't have everything. If your priority is having neighborhood schools without out of bounds children, the District is not the place for you. The boundary process made clear that OOB numbers will be increasing, not decreasing, and kids will have the right to continue with the feeder pattern. If getting out of that system is critical to you, then you should leave the District. You can complain on an anonymous forum as much as you like, but it won't change the reality.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:For OP and others who don't want OOB kids at their schools: you are not living in the right place. Move to VA or MD.

That doesn't make sense either. Those schools VA or MD typically have more SES and racial diversity than the JKLMMs. There are plenty of town homes and apartments mixed in with most of the good school zones, unless you target an area like Mclean or Whitman pyramid. My point is, don't lump all people who do not live in DC (though I do) with people like this OP. That is not fair to the people in VA and MD.

Well, there are tradeoffs in life. You can't have everything. If your priority is having neighborhood schools without out of bounds children, the District is not the place for you. The boundary process made clear that OOB numbers will be increasing, not decreasing, and kids will have the right to continue with the feeder pattern. If getting out of that system is critical to you, then you should leave the District. You can complain on an anonymous forum as much as you like, but it won't change the reality.

Fair enough, I was a NP, but just don't like it when people sling random mud at the supposedly evil suburbs.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:For OP and others who don't want OOB kids at their schools: you are not living in the right place. Move to VA or MD.

That doesn't make sense either. Those schools VA or MD typically have more SES and racial diversity than the JKLMMs. There are plenty of town homes and apartments mixed in with most of the good school zones, unless you target an area like Mclean or Whitman pyramid. My point is, don't lump all people who do not live in DC (though I do) with people like this OP. That is not fair to the people in VA and MD.

Well, there are tradeoffs in life. You can't have everything. If your priority is having neighborhood schools without out of bounds children, the District is not the place for you. The boundary process made clear that OOB numbers will be increasing, not decreasing, and kids will have the right to continue with the feeder pattern. If getting out of that system is critical to you, then you should leave the District. You can complain on an anonymous forum as much as you like, but it won't change the reality.

Fair enough, I was a NP, but just don't like it when people sling random mud at the supposedly evil suburbs.

I wasn't slinging mud at the suburbs. I don't know where you got that. I was saying that for people whose priority is not having OOB students at the school, they should move to the 'burbs because they will have that there. They won't have OOB students there, or at least not in the proportions we have here. I am a city person myself, but I can see why some people would prefer the 'burbs, and they certainly have their advantages in terms of schools. It's a choice we all have to make, and I can see where reasonable people would decide to stay in the city and other reasonable people would decide to move to the 'burbs.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:For OP and others who don't want OOB kids at their schools: you are not living in the right place. Move to VA or MD.

That doesn't make sense either. Those schools VA or MD typically have more SES and racial diversity than the JKLMMs. There are plenty of town homes and apartments mixed in with most of the good school zones, unless you target an area like Mclean or Whitman pyramid. My point is, don't lump all people who do not live in DC (though I do) with people like this OP. That is not fair to the people in VA and MD.

Well, there are tradeoffs in life. You can't have everything. If your priority is having neighborhood schools without out of bounds children, the District is not the place for you. The boundary process made clear that OOB numbers will be increasing, not decreasing, and kids will have the right to continue with the feeder pattern. If getting out of that system is critical to you, then you should leave the District. You can complain on an anonymous forum as much as you like, but it won't change the reality.

This is BS. OOB numbers will steadily decrease as they have been doing for years, due to increased IB interest at many DCPS. The set asides will not reverse this trend. They will only slow/modify it.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:For OP and others who don't want OOB kids at their schools: you are not living in the right place. Move to VA or MD.

That doesn't make sense either. Those schools VA or MD typically have more SES and racial diversity than the JKLMMs. There are plenty of town homes and apartments mixed in with most of the good school zones, unless you target an area like Mclean or Whitman pyramid. My point is, don't lump all people who do not live in DC (though I do) with people like this OP. That is not fair to the people in VA and MD.

Well, there are tradeoffs in life. You can't have everything. If your priority is having neighborhood schools without out of bounds children, the District is not the place for you. The boundary process made clear that OOB numbers will be increasing, not decreasing, and kids will have the right to continue with the feeder pattern. If getting out of that system is critical to you, then you should leave the District. You can complain on an anonymous forum as much as you like, but it won't change the reality.

This is BS. OOB numbers will steadily decrease as they have been doing for years, due to increased IB interest at many DCPS. The set asides will not reverse this trend. They will only slow/modify it.

Great! All taken care of. Stop complaining about it then.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For OP and others who don't want OOB kids at their schools: you are not living in the right place. Move to VA or MD.

That doesn't make sense either. Those schools VA or MD typically have more SES and racial diversity than the JKLMMs. There are plenty of town homes and apartments mixed in with most of the good school zones, unless you target an area like Mclean or Whitman pyramid. My point is, don't lump all people who do not live in DC (though I do) with people like this OP. That is not fair to the people in VA and MD.

Well, there are tradeoffs in life. You can't have everything. If your priority is having neighborhood schools without out of bounds children, the District is not the place for you. The boundary process made clear that OOB numbers will be increasing, not decreasing, and kids will have the right to continue with the feeder pattern. If getting out of that system is critical to you, then you should leave the District. You can complain on an anonymous forum as much as you like, but it won't change the reality.

This is BS. OOB numbers will steadily decrease as they have been doing for years, due to increased IB interest at many DCPS. The set asides will not reverse this trend. They will only slow/modify it.

Great! All taken care of. Stop complaining about it then.

There are multiple people responding on this thread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:You are an idiot OP. My IB school doesn't even have a PTA or any formal parent organization. there is zero fundraising capabilities. The school is almost all ELL and the parents who are trying to "improve" the school are a handful of mainly white high SES parents and that doesn't go over so well with some of the admin and lower income families. And a group of 20 parents can only do much when 300 of the students are below grade level. So if I am trying to get my kid elsewhere because I work full time and I don't have the luxury of spending 60 hours a week improving my school thats my business.

well said

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:For OP and others who don't want OOB kids at their schools: you are not living in the right place. Move to VA or MD.

That doesn't make sense either. Those schools VA or MD typically have more SES and racial diversity than the JKLMMs. There are plenty of town homes and apartments mixed in with most of the good school zones, unless you target an area like Mclean or Whitman pyramid. My point is, don't lump all people who do not live in DC (though I do) with people like this OP. That is not fair to the people in VA and MD.

Well, there are tradeoffs in life. You can't have everything. If your priority is having neighborhood schools without out of bounds children, the District is not the place for you. The boundary process made clear that OOB numbers will be increasing, not decreasing, and kids will have the right to continue with the feeder pattern. If getting out of that system is critical to you, then you should leave the District. You can complain on an anonymous forum as much as you like, but it won't change the reality.

This is BS. OOB numbers will steadily decrease as they have been doing for years, due to increased IB interest at many DCPS. The set asides will not reverse this trend. They will only slow/modify it.

Great! All taken care of. Stop complaining about it then.

There are multiple people responding on this thread.

Then back to my original point: If you see this as such a problem and don't want schools with OOB children, then you can opt to live in MD or VA, where they have good neighborhood schools with few if any OOB kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Lol that OP thinks her kid's school is high performing because of all her super-awesome PTA participation.

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