Boundary Focus Groups

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Sherrill Dr, Wise Rd, Blagden and 16th/Military all mapquest as 8-10 minutes to the school (2.4 to 2.7 miles). I know I usually beat mapquest's estimate by a few minutes. No reason to try to catch anyone in a lie here 0.7 mile lady.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Sherrill Dr, Wise Rd, Blagden and 16th/Military all mapquest as 8-10 minutes to the school (2.4 to 2.7 miles). I know I usually beat mapquest's estimate by a few minutes. No reason to try to catch anyone in a lie here 0.7 mile lady.

Not during a.m. commute hour, sir. But we're glad you're part of the community.

[Anonymous]

Different perspective here.

We are not IB for Deal and have chosen the PCS MS route rather than move.

If boundaries are eliminated for Wilson and, perhaps, Deal, then those parents who do not flee to MoCo or privates will likely enter the lottery for Latin or BASIS. Having those bright would-be Deal kids at either Latin or BASIS will go a long way toward improving both schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Sherrill Dr, Wise Rd, Blagden and 16th/Military all mapquest as 8-10 minutes to the school (2.4 to 2.7 miles). I know I usually beat mapquest's estimate by a few minutes. No reason to try to catch anyone in a lie here 0.7 mile lady.

Not during a.m. commute hour, sir. But we're glad you're part of the community.

Again, you caanot say what someones else's experience is that they do every day. There is no traffic from Wise to Nebraska at 750am.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

Sherrill Dr, Wise Rd, Blagden and 16th/Military all mapquest as 8-10 minutes to the school (2.4 to 2.7 miles). I know I usually beat mapquest's estimate by a few minutes. No reason to try to catch anyone in a lie here 0.7 mile lady.

Not during a.m. commute hour, sir. But we're glad you're part of the community.

I'm glad you're a part of the community too. This is the attitude that is referred to. These are IB people that are already in the community not people that you are graciously allowing to attend.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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.

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BS. I sat in on an Upper NW ES discussion about boundaries and it was EXPLICITLY expressed that THOSE kids from across town should be booted out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

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.

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BS. I sat in on an Upper NW ES discussion about boundaries and it was EXPLICITLY expressed that THOSE kids from across town should be booted out.

My focus group as well. Ward 3 parents (all Janney and a few Murch) are absolutely the driving force behind the us v. them dynamic. Their sense of community is limited to their little circle. There is no wider concern for the community as a city. It is sad. There was clearly an organized effort at Janney to dominate the focus groups and argue for what is best for Janney parents only.

[Anonymous]

How were the focus groups administered? Was each participant given the same amount of time to talk on whatever issue they wanted? Or was it more structured?

[Anonymous]

I am a Janney parent that would love to see us lobbying for organization because we keep hearing that every other school has organized around their own pov, but I can tell you there is no organization and the four Janney families, out of 600, that were at the focus group do not represent mass organization. That being said, wanting a neighborhood school does not make anyone an evil person. It's why we all bought houses in the neighborhood so that our kids could go to neighborhood schools. It doesn't mean we don't care about anyone else. But you don't fix a broken system by tearing apart one aspect that's working well.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I am a Janney parent that would love to see us lobbying for organization because we keep hearing that every other school has organized around their own pov, but I can tell you there is no organization and the four Janney families, out of 600, that were at the focus group do not represent mass organization. That being said, wanting a neighborhood school does not make anyone an evil person. It's why we all bought houses in the neighborhood so that our kids could go to neighborhood schools. It doesn't mean we don't care about anyone else. But you don't fix a broken system by tearing apart one aspect that's working well.

But how does this jive with the narrative that you're the devil? Stupid people will continue to believe what they want, namely that there's some massive, subversive intent in the hearts and minds of these rich power brokers in NW DC. They already control the levels of wealth creation; now they're dead-set on controlling the levers of education, too. Soon, we'll all be enslaved to you, as you dine on caviar, virgins and unicorns and we're left to subside on rationed victory gruel.

There's no point in trying to reason with the naysayers who believe every thing you say is racist, explicitly or inherently, and that you only care about yourself. You're the devil.

[Anonymous]

everybody wants to contribute to a whole system, but people want to gain, not lose. its the problem of separating carrots and sticks so the boundary commission is all sticks and no carrots like new school programs or spending. so everyone hates it and starts acting defensive of what they already have.

[Anonymous]

To all the OOB Deal parents, what's so much better about the school than your IB school? The teachers? The facilities? The principal? I genuinely want to learn why you make the commute.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a Janney parent that would love to see us lobbying for organization because we keep hearing that every other school has organized around their own pov, but I can tell you there is no organization and the four Janney families, out of 600, that were at the focus group do not represent mass organization. That being said, wanting a neighborhood school does not make anyone an evil person. It's why we all bought houses in the neighborhood so that our kids could go to neighborhood schools. It doesn't mean we don't care about anyone else. But you don't fix a broken system by tearing apart one aspect that's working well.

But how does this jive with the narrative that you're the devil? Stupid people will continue to believe what they want, namely that there's some massive, subversive intent in the hearts and minds of these rich power brokers in NW DC. They already control the levels of wealth creation; now they're dead-set on controlling the levers of education, too. Soon, we'll all be enslaved to you, as you dine on caviar, virgins and unicorns and we're left to subside on rationed victory gruel.

There's no point in trying to reason with the naysayers who believe every thing you say is racist, explicitly or inherently, and that you only care about yourself. You're the devil.

It's not imagined and I'm no naysayer. I live IB for an Upper NW ES and have heard parents talk openly about getting OOB kids out of the feeders for Deal and Wilson. And I'm not talking this happening at the recent focus groups. These types of discussions have been going on for months. The boundary issue will pit neighborhoods against each other - don't be so foolish to think it won't. If you have any power in this town, now is the time to flex it. People will use their power where their kids are concerned.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I am a Janney parent that would love to see us lobbying for organization because we keep hearing that every other school has organized around their own pov, but I can tell you there is no organization and the four Janney families, out of 600, that were at the focus group do not represent mass organization. That being said, wanting a neighborhood school does not make anyone an evil person. It's why we all bought houses in the neighborhood so that our kids could go to neighborhood schools. It doesn't mean we don't care about anyone else. But you don't fix a broken system by tearing apart one aspect that's working well.

But how does this jive with the narrative that you're the devil? Stupid people will continue to believe what they want, namely that there's some massive, subversive intent in the hearts and minds of these rich power brokers in NW DC. They already control the levels of wealth creation; now they're dead-set on controlling the levers of education, too. Soon, we'll all be enslaved to you, as you dine on caviar, virgins and unicorns and we're left to subside on rationed victory gruel.

There's no point in trying to reason with the naysayers who believe every thing you say is racist, explicitly or inherently, and that you only care about yourself. You're the devil.

It's not imagined and I'm no naysayer. I live IB for an Upper NW ES and have heard parents talk openly about getting OOB kids out of the feeders for Deal and Wilson. And I'm not talking this happening at the recent focus groups. These types of discussions have been going on for months. The boundary issue will pit neighborhoods against each other - don't be so foolish to think it won't. If you have any power in this town, now is the time to flex it. People will use their power where their kids are concerned.

Why do they want them out of their schools? Is it because they're black, as earlier posters asserted? Or, perhaps, is it possible that the motivation is because the schools are overcrowded?

[Anonymous]

The only reason there is any talk of "wanting out of bounds kids out of the schools" is because even with just IB kids, the schools are overcrowded, so basically, Janney parents are argument against overcrowded schools, not against, your kids.