Proximity Preference 0.5 mile for charters

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Bowsers going to announce a proximity preference for families living 0.5 mile from a charter. Will start in SY 18.

As if schools like YY and Basis aren't hard enough to get into already.

This will benefit the families in gentrifying neighborhoods East of the Park and West of the Anacostia. It won't help poorer students at all.

This is ONLY for elementary schools. Basis and Latin are not elementary schools.

[Anonymous]

Last I checked, YY is an elementary school. Even families with children actually attending the school worry about getting their pre-schoolers into the coveted PK3 classrooms.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This is utterly ludicrous. How are immersion schools supposed to survive? They already can only get native speakers via recruitment only, and now that's gone too?

The strong schools will survive, though target language instruction will suffer. But then who really cares about that in the DC charter realm? Yu Ying has thrived with a handful of native speakers, literally a handful out of 540 students.

I know LAMB isn't in the common lottery so this may be moot. But LAMB's Missouri Avenue campus is surrounded by homes and apartment buildings full of native speakers whose children attend Brightwood or Center City PCS on Georgia. If they were to offer this preference it would absolutely increase the percentage of native speakers.

Even if LAMB was eligible and decided to apply this preference (LAMB parents on this board has mentioned recruiting efforts for the school lottery throughout the neighborhood), all of those apartments are less than .5 miles from their IB school.

This isn't true. I live in a house near these apartments. While the closest to LAMB would be ineligible, there are several apts a little further north (near me) where they would because Brightwood campus is .6M away and LAMB is under .5.

[Anonymous]

11:57. I was the person who wrote that about LAMB. Thanks for the correction.

[Anonymous]

This is going to affect nearly nobody. It will only affect people who meet all of the following criteria:

- Live w/i .05 mile of a charter.
-Do not live w/1 .05 mile of a DCPC
-The charter you live near participates and gives the "walkability preference
-The charter gives the walkability preference and either puts the preference ahead of sibling or other preferences - or there are still slots that are not taken by sibling or other preferences.
-The charter you live near is a charter that you actually would like to go to.

Is this correct?

This proposal is either:
-a political stunt aimed at looking like the mayor cares about walkability, or
-It is aimed to satisfy one or two wealthy donors to whom this would apply. or
-It is aimed to satisfy one particular charter school located in a low income neighborhood - that aims to serve poor children but ends up with a high percentage high income kids.

[Anonymous]

Everybody should oppose this. People who want fair lotteries. People who want good neighborhood schools.

Write to Jennie Niles and your State Board rep to tell them this is awful.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Everybody should oppose this. People who want fair lotteries. People who want good neighborhood schools.

Write to Jennie Niles and your State Board rep to tell them this is awful.

Nope. I think it's great. Everyone should be in favor of it!

[Anonymous]

If you are going to give a proximity preference, then why not language preferences at immersion charters? If you make one exception you have to consider others. Starts the process of eliminating "fair lotteries"

[Anonymous]

Lotteries are not "fair." An understanding of equality vs. equity makes this very clear. Let's not delude ourselves, DCUM.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Everybody should oppose this. People who want fair lotteries. People who want good neighborhood schools.

Write to Jennie Niles and your State Board rep to tell them this is awful.

Who is our state board rep? I'll contact Jennie niles today. Also I contacted my council member but he's useless.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Everybody should oppose this. People who want fair lotteries. People who want good neighborhood schools.

Write to Jennie Niles and your State Board rep to tell them this is awful.

Who is our state board rep? I'll contact Jennie niles today. Also I contacted my council member but he's useless.

Jennie Niles works for the mayor. She is on board with this. So don't waste your time.

The only ones who can stop this are the Council.

As for the state board, this is outside their jurisdiction. But you can find the list here https://sboe.dc.gov/node/1102552

If the Council approves, you can also pressure the charter schools you care about (or all of them for that matter) not to offer it.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:This is going to affect nearly nobody. It will only affect people who meet all of the following criteria:

- Live w/i .05 mile of a charter.
-Do not live w/1 .05 mile of a DCPC
-The charter you live near participates and gives the "walkability preference
-The charter gives the walkability preference and either puts the preference ahead of sibling or other preferences - or there are still slots that are not taken by sibling or other preferences.
-The charter you live near is a charter that you actually would like to go to.

Is this correct?

This proposal is either:
-a political stunt aimed at looking like the mayor cares about walkability, or
-It is aimed to satisfy one or two wealthy donors to whom this would apply. or
-It is aimed to satisfy one particular charter school located in a low income neighborhood - that aims to serve poor children but ends up with a high percentage high income kids.

I think you are correct, and the proposal is aimed to satisfy small groups of people who live very near a popular charter and not so near their in bound DCPS. An obvious impact will be on folks whose DCPS was closed, and the building is now occupied by a popular charter. (They are likely to be more than .5 miles from what is now their in bound DCPS). It might also be designed to mollify neighborhoods around popular charter schools who complain about traffic and such from people who are driving their kids to school and congesting small residential streets nearby.

[Anonymous]

DME released analysis today showing this proposal would have most impact in Wards 5 and 9.

https://www.scribd.com/document/338904118/Analysis-Charter-Walkability-Preference-FINAL-1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DME released analysis today showing this proposal would have most impact in Wards 5 and 9.

https://www.scribd.com/document/338904118/Analysis-Charter-Walkability-Preference-FINAL-1

Oops - meant ward 5 and 8!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DME released analysis today showing this proposal would have most impact in Wards 5 and 9.

https://www.scribd.com/document/338904118/Analysis-Charter-Walkability-Preference-FINAL-1

Oops - meant ward 5 and 8!

No you didn't