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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?

Expensive neighborhoods and schools in expensive neighborhoods.

(JKLM = Janney, Key, Lafayette, Mann)

No, the bolded: out of ward feeders, double optional feeders

Shepherd (out of ward), Bancroft (out of ward/dual feeder), a good chunk of Lafayette is out of ward, Oyster-Adams (double feeder), Murch has a chunk out of ward. Ross, I think. There a few others.

Bancroft has three possible feeds, Deal, MacFarland and CHEC.

Seems ward boundaries and school boundaries are not the same for so many schools.

During the last boundar review, Bancroft, Shepherd, and Lafayette were supposed to be routed out of Deal-Wilson, and mayor intervened, b/c she used to represent Ward 4. She’s a lame duck now, and will not be allowed to intervene again per Mendelson.

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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?

Expensive neighborhoods and schools in expensive neighborhoods.

(JKLM = Janney, Key, Lafayette, Mann)

No, the bolded: out of ward feeders, double optional feeders

Shepherd (out of ward), Bancroft (out of ward/dual feeder), a good chunk of Lafayette is out of ward, Oyster-Adams (double feeder), Murch has a chunk out of ward. Ross, I think. There a few others.

Bancroft has three possible feeds, Deal, MacFarland and CHEC.

Seems ward boundaries and school boundaries are not the same for so many schools.

During the last boundar review, Bancroft, Shepherd, and Lafayette were supposed to be routed out of Deal-Wilson, and mayor intervened, b/c she used to represent Ward 4. She’s a lame duck now, and will not be allowed to intervene again per Mendelson.

Interesting. Where would Lafayette be routed to? Wells I think is the closest middle school but it’s already full.

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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?

Expensive neighborhoods and schools in expensive neighborhoods.

(JKLM = Janney, Key, Lafayette, Mann)

No, the bolded: out of ward feeders, double optional feeders

Shepherd (out of ward), Bancroft (out of ward/dual feeder), a good chunk of Lafayette is out of ward, Oyster-Adams (double feeder), Murch has a chunk out of ward. Ross, I think. There a few others.

Bancroft has three possible feeds, Deal, MacFarland and CHEC.

Seems ward boundaries and school boundaries are not the same for so many schools.

During the last boundar review, Bancroft, Shepherd, and Lafayette were supposed to be routed out of Deal-Wilson, and mayor intervened, b/c she used to represent Ward 4. She’s a lame duck now, and will not be allowed to intervene again per Mendelson.

Interesting. Where would Lafayette be routed to? Wells I think is the closest middle school but it’s already full.

During the last review they were going to change the catchment for Lafayette to pull out the chunk who live in Ward 4. Per current boundary commission, they can build out Wells and add trailers. IB participation is only 60%, so there are other things the commission is apparently considering at all schools re: OOB students.

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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?

Expensive neighborhoods and schools in expensive neighborhoods.

(JKLM = Janney, Key, Lafayette, Mann)

No, the bolded: out of ward feeders, double optional feeders

Shepherd (out of ward), Bancroft (out of ward/dual feeder), a good chunk of Lafayette is out of ward, Oyster-Adams (double feeder), Murch has a chunk out of ward. Ross, I think. There a few others.

Bancroft has three possible feeds, Deal, MacFarland and CHEC.

Seems ward boundaries and school boundaries are not the same for so many schools.

During the last boundar review, Bancroft, Shepherd, and Lafayette were supposed to be routed out of Deal-Wilson, and mayor intervened, b/c she used to represent Ward 4. She’s a lame duck now, and will not be allowed to intervene again per Mendelson.

You are so brazenly full of garbage. How is the mayor a lame duck?

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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?

Expensive neighborhoods and schools in expensive neighborhoods.

(JKLM = Janney, Key, Lafayette, Mann)

No, the bolded: out of ward feeders, double optional feeders

Shepherd (out of ward), Bancroft (out of ward/dual feeder), a good chunk of Lafayette is out of ward, Oyster-Adams (double feeder), Murch has a chunk out of ward. Ross, I think. There a few others.

Bancroft has three possible feeds, Deal, MacFarland and CHEC.

Seems ward boundaries and school boundaries are not the same for so many schools.

During the last boundar review, Bancroft, Shepherd, and Lafayette were supposed to be routed out of Deal-Wilson, and mayor intervened, b/c she used to represent Ward 4. She’s a lame duck now, and will not be allowed to intervene again per Mendelson.

You are so brazenly full of garbage. How is the mayor a lame duck?

And when did Mendelson ever stand up to the mayor?

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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?

Expensive neighborhoods and schools in expensive neighborhoods.

(JKLM = Janney, Key, Lafayette, Mann)

No, the bolded: out of ward feeders, double optional feeders

Shepherd (out of ward), Bancroft (out of ward/dual feeder), a good chunk of Lafayette is out of ward, Oyster-Adams (double feeder), Murch has a chunk out of ward. Ross, I think. There a few others.

Bancroft has three possible feeds, Deal, MacFarland and CHEC.

Seems ward boundaries and school boundaries are not the same for so many schools.

During the last boundar review, Bancroft, Shepherd, and Lafayette were supposed to be routed out of Deal-Wilson, and mayor intervened, b/c she used to represent Ward 4. She’s a lame duck now, and will not be allowed to intervene again per Mendelson.

You are so brazenly full of garbage. How is the mayor a lame duck?

Because she’s in her third term, and highly unlikely to run for a 4th term. That’s the usual definition of a lame duck. Last time she didn’t have a kid in a school that’s under consideration for re-routing. Now she does. She got a lot of flack when she intervened before. The council is on record as saying that they want the process to go forward without a thumb on the scale, and the deputy mayor is heavily involved with the roll-out.

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With all the finger pointing in who should have to move out of JR boundary, why doesn’t Oyster Adams get named? They are quite far away from the high school comparatively. What’s the history on keeping them with JR and not moving them to a closer high school (Cardozo or MacArthur)?

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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?

Expensive neighborhoods and schools in expensive neighborhoods.

(JKLM = Janney, Key, Lafayette, Mann)

No, the bolded: out of ward feeders, double optional feeders

Shepherd (out of ward), Bancroft (out of ward/dual feeder), a good chunk of Lafayette is out of ward, Oyster-Adams (double feeder), Murch has a chunk out of ward. Ross, I think. There a few others.

Bancroft has three possible feeds, Deal, MacFarland and CHEC.

Seems ward boundaries and school boundaries are not the same for so many schools.

During the last boundar review, Bancroft, Shepherd, and Lafayette were supposed to be routed out of Deal-Wilson, and mayor intervened, b/c she used to represent Ward 4. She’s a lame duck now, and will not be allowed to intervene again per Mendelson.

You are so brazenly full of garbage. How is the mayor a lame duck?

Because she’s in her third term, and highly unlikely to run for a 4th term. That’s the usual definition of a lame duck. Last time she didn’t have a kid in a school that’s under consideration for re-routing. Now she does. She got a lot of flack when she intervened before. The council is on record as saying that they want the process to go forward without a thumb on the scale, and the deputy mayor is heavily involved with the roll-out.

Until she actually declares she isn’t running (which she won’t do until EHN resigns or doesn’t run again), she is not term limited and so not a lame duck. Basic Merriam Webster. By stubbornly sticking to this point and your position that ward and school boundaries are contiguous, you devalue anything else you say.

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Anonymous wrote:With all the finger pointing in who should have to move out of JR boundary, why doesn’t Oyster Adams get named? They are quite far away from the high school comparatively. What’s the history on keeping them with JR and not moving them to a closer high school (Cardozo or MacArthur)?

They are considering it, considered it last time as well.

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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?

Expensive neighborhoods and schools in expensive neighborhoods.

(JKLM = Janney, Key, Lafayette, Mann)

No, the bolded: out of ward feeders, double optional feeders

Shepherd (out of ward), Bancroft (out of ward/dual feeder), a good chunk of Lafayette is out of ward, Oyster-Adams (double feeder), Murch has a chunk out of ward. Ross, I think. There a few others.

Bancroft has three possible feeds, Deal, MacFarland and CHEC.

Seems ward boundaries and school boundaries are not the same for so many schools.

During the last boundar review, Bancroft, Shepherd, and Lafayette were supposed to be routed out of Deal-Wilson, and mayor intervened, b/c she used to represent Ward 4. She’s a lame duck now, and will not be allowed to intervene again per Mendelson.

You are so brazenly full of garbage. How is the mayor a lame duck?

Because she’s in her third term, and highly unlikely to run for a 4th term. That’s the usual definition of a lame duck. Last time she didn’t have a kid in a school that’s under consideration for re-routing. Now she does. She got a lot of flack when she intervened before. The council is on record as saying that they want the process to go forward without a thumb on the scale, and the deputy mayor is heavily involved with the roll-out.

Until she actually declares she isn’t running (which she won’t do until EHN resigns or doesn’t run again), she is not term limited and so not a lame duck. Basic Merriam Webster. By stubbornly sticking to this point and your position that ward and school boundaries are contiguous, you devalue anything else you say.

Ummm. Ignorance is apparently your daily breakfast- are you suggesting she’s going to be mayor for life like Marion Barry - because it is unprecedented and highly unlikely for her to run for a 4th term - if you look at DC mayoral history. We get that you moved her like 10 minutes ago, but yikes. She’s also been trying quite heavily to get a job in the Biden administration since he was inaugurated the first time and she violated her own Covid closure order to drive to Delaware for his election night party.

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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?

Expensive neighborhoods and schools in expensive neighborhoods.

(JKLM = Janney, Key, Lafayette, Mann)

No, the bolded: out of ward feeders, double optional feeders

Shepherd (out of ward), Bancroft (out of ward/dual feeder), a good chunk of Lafayette is out of ward, Oyster-Adams (double feeder), Murch has a chunk out of ward. Ross, I think. There a few others.

Bancroft has three possible feeds, Deal, MacFarland and CHEC.

Seems ward boundaries and school boundaries are not the same for so many schools.

During the last boundar review, Bancroft, Shepherd, and Lafayette were supposed to be routed out of Deal-Wilson, and mayor intervened, b/c she used to represent Ward 4. She’s a lame duck now, and will not be allowed to intervene again per Mendelson.

You are so brazenly full of garbage. How is the mayor a lame duck?

Because she’s in her third term, and highly unlikely to run for a 4th term. That’s the usual definition of a lame duck. Last time she didn’t have a kid in a school that’s under consideration for re-routing. Now she does. She got a lot of flack when she intervened before. The council is on record as saying that they want the process to go forward without a thumb on the scale, and the deputy mayor is heavily involved with the roll-out.

Until she actually declares she isn’t running (which she won’t do until EHN resigns or doesn’t run again), she is not term limited and so not a lame duck. Basic Merriam Webster. By stubbornly sticking to this point and your position that ward and school boundaries are contiguous, you devalue anything else you say.

Ummm. Ignorance is apparently your daily breakfast- are you suggesting she’s going to be mayor for life like Marion Barry - because it is unprecedented and highly unlikely for her to run for a 4th term - if you look at DC mayoral history. We get that you moved her like 10 minutes ago, but yikes. She’s also been trying quite heavily to get a job in the Biden administration since he was inaugurated the first time and she violated her own Covid closure order to drive to Delaware for his election night party.

Nobody is disputing any of this. The dispute is calling her a “lame duck.” That’s not what that term means.

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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?

Expensive neighborhoods and schools in expensive neighborhoods.

(JKLM = Janney, Key, Lafayette, Mann)

No, the bolded: out of ward feeders, double optional feeders

Shepherd (out of ward), Bancroft (out of ward/dual feeder), a good chunk of Lafayette is out of ward, Oyster-Adams (double feeder), Murch has a chunk out of ward. Ross, I think. There a few others.

Bancroft has three possible feeds, Deal, MacFarland and CHEC.

Seems ward boundaries and school boundaries are not the same for so many schools.

During the last boundar review, Bancroft, Shepherd, and Lafayette were supposed to be routed out of Deal-Wilson, and mayor intervened, b/c she used to represent Ward 4. She’s a lame duck now, and will not be allowed to intervene again per Mendelson.

That's just not true.

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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?

Expensive neighborhoods and schools in expensive neighborhoods.

(JKLM = Janney, Key, Lafayette, Mann)

No, the bolded: out of ward feeders, double optional feeders

Shepherd (out of ward), Bancroft (out of ward/dual feeder), a good chunk of Lafayette is out of ward, Oyster-Adams (double feeder), Murch has a chunk out of ward. Ross, I think. There a few others.

Bancroft has three possible feeds, Deal, MacFarland and CHEC.

Seems ward boundaries and school boundaries are not the same for so many schools.

During the last boundar review, Bancroft, Shepherd, and Lafayette were supposed to be routed out of Deal-Wilson, and mayor intervened, b/c she used to represent Ward 4. She’s a lame duck now, and will not be allowed to intervene again per Mendelson.

You are so brazenly full of garbage. How is the mayor a lame duck?

Because she’s in her third term, and highly unlikely to run for a 4th term. That’s the usual definition of a lame duck. Last time she didn’t have a kid in a school that’s under consideration for re-routing. Now she does. She got a lot of flack when she intervened before. The council is on record as saying that they want the process to go forward without a thumb on the scale, and the deputy mayor is heavily involved with the roll-out.

I think it's hilarious that you continue to state anyone is being considered of re-routing. Have you seen any proposals yet or you just assuming? For the millionth time, Coolidge and Roosevelt are more crowded than Jackson Reed. JR is now well under capacity. The only way Lafayette or Shepherd gets re-routed is if there were a new middle school all together.

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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?

Expensive neighborhoods and schools in expensive neighborhoods.

(JKLM = Janney, Key, Lafayette, Mann)

No, the bolded: out of ward feeders, double optional feeders

Shepherd (out of ward), Bancroft (out of ward/dual feeder), a good chunk of Lafayette is out of ward, Oyster-Adams (double feeder), Murch has a chunk out of ward. Ross, I think. There a few others.

Bancroft has three possible feeds, Deal, MacFarland and CHEC.

Seems ward boundaries and school boundaries are not the same for so many schools.

During the last boundar review, Bancroft, Shepherd, and Lafayette were supposed to be routed out of Deal-Wilson, and mayor intervened, b/c she used to represent Ward 4. She’s a lame duck now, and will not be allowed to intervene again per Mendelson.

You are so brazenly full of garbage. How is the mayor a lame duck?

Because she’s in her third term, and highly unlikely to run for a 4th term. That’s the usual definition of a lame duck. Last time she didn’t have a kid in a school that’s under consideration for re-routing. Now she does. She got a lot of flack when she intervened before. The council is on record as saying that they want the process to go forward without a thumb on the scale, and the deputy mayor is heavily involved with the roll-out.

I think it's hilarious that you continue to state anyone is being considered of re-routing. Have you seen any proposals yet or you just assuming? For the millionth time, Coolidge and Roosevelt are more crowded than Jackson Reed. JR is now well under capacity. The only way Lafayette or Shepherd gets re-routed is if there were a new middle school all together.

Roosevelt is not more crowded. PP was shown to be using old data when Roosevelt Stay was co-located two years ago.

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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?

Expensive neighborhoods and schools in expensive neighborhoods.

(JKLM = Janney, Key, Lafayette, Mann)

No, the bolded: out of ward feeders, double optional feeders

Shepherd (out of ward), Bancroft (out of ward/dual feeder), a good chunk of Lafayette is out of ward, Oyster-Adams (double feeder), Murch has a chunk out of ward. Ross, I think. There a few others.

Bancroft has three possible feeds, Deal, MacFarland and CHEC.

Seems ward boundaries and school boundaries are not the same for so many schools.

During the last boundar review, Bancroft, Shepherd, and Lafayette were supposed to be routed out of Deal-Wilson, and mayor intervened, b/c she used to represent Ward 4. She’s a lame duck now, and will not be allowed to intervene again per Mendelson.

Interesting. Where would Lafayette be routed to? Wells I think is the closest middle school but it’s already full.

During the last review they were going to change the catchment for Lafayette to pull out the chunk who live in Ward 4. Per current boundary commission, they can build out Wells and add trailers. IB participation is only 60%, so there are other things the commission is apparently considering at all schools re: OOB students.

So Wells was just rebuilt a few years ago and they might be putting kids in trailers because it isn’t big enough? That just makes no sense and shows poor planning in general.