Housing proposed for Tenley Library/portion of Janney site

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Aren’t they adding schools in NW?

Anything could happen. DC is even studying a 100 percent lottery assignment system, with string at risk preferences.. In 5 years AU Park students might be assigned Hearst or even to a school in SE, not necessarily their neighborhood school. This is the only way to address DEI meaningfully in DCPS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Aren’t they adding schools in NW?

Anything could happen. DC is even studying a 100 percent lottery assignment system, with string at risk preferences.. In 5 years AU Park students might be assigned Hearst or even to a school in SE, not necessarily their neighborhood school. This is the only way to address DEI meaningfully in DCPS.

Many families will flee the city and there will likewise be growth in the charter and private school sectors.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Aren’t they adding schools in NW?

Anything could happen. DC is even studying a 100 percent lottery assignment system, with string at risk preferences.. In 5 years AU Park students might be assigned Hearst or even to a school in SE, not necessarily their neighborhood school. This is the only way to address DEI meaningfully in DCPS.

The surest way to start a new wave of white flight, just like in San Francisco. Even the staunchest progressives won’t have their kids bused from AU Park to SE. They will not be dumb enough to do this.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Aren’t they adding schools in NW?

Anything could happen. DC is even studying a 100 percent lottery assignment system, with string at risk preferences.. In 5 years AU Park students might be assigned Hearst or even to a school in SE, not necessarily their neighborhood school. This is the only way to address DEI meaningfully in DCPS.

The only place I've heard of this "study" is this thread. Not sure why it's even being considered, if it even is. It's been a disaster in San Francisco, making inequity worse not better, and they're getting rid of it.

[Anonymous]

The city planing should allow for higher density at metro stations. School boundaries can be adjusted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The city planing should allow for higher density at metro stations. School boundaries can be adjusted.

Ok how specifically will these boundaries be adjusted to solve overcrowding? All the schools we're talking about here are overcrowded and will become even more so in coming years. Moving kids from one overcrowded school to another overcrowded school is not a solution.

I seriously would like the "simply adjust the boundaries" posters to provide specifics on how their miracle solution actually would work. Otherwise they're just being trolls at this point.

[Anonymous]

The city planned for this by investing money to build the library with re-enforced infrastructure. I don’t think this is a sudden decision that is being made.

Will there be an ANC meeting to share the details with the community? I think we need to learn more before stifling development over a metro station. That is incredibly short-sighted.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The city planing should allow for higher density at metro stations. School boundaries can be adjusted.

Interesting, because Mary Cheh voted to eliminate the requirement that was in the Comprehensive Plan previously that the Zoning Commission and BZA had to consider infrastructure like local school capacity before approving large development projects. That provision is now gone, so DC can just approve all sorts of development now and worry about critical needs like schools later. Thanks, Cheh.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Aren’t they adding schools in NW?

Anything could happen. DC is even studying a 100 percent lottery assignment system, with string at risk preferences.. In 5 years AU Park students might be assigned Hearst or even to a school in SE, not necessarily their neighborhood school. This is the only way to address DEI meaningfully in DCPS.

The surest way to start a new wave of white flight, just like in San Francisco. Even the staunchest progressives won’t have their kids bused from AU Park to SE. They will not be dumb enough to do this.

And why would this be such as bad thing? DCPS would become more diverse, with more inclusive access to top performing schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Aren’t they adding schools in NW?

Anything could happen. DC is even studying a 100 percent lottery assignment system, with string at risk preferences.. In 5 years AU Park students might be assigned Hearst or even to a school in SE, not necessarily their neighborhood school. This is the only way to address DEI meaningfully in DCPS.

The surest way to start a new wave of white flight, just like in San Francisco. Even the staunchest progressives won’t have their kids bused from AU Park to SE. They will not be dumb enough to do this.

And why would this be such as bad thing? DCPS would become more diverse, with more inclusive access to top performing schools.

Are you new to this issue? Because the schools wouldn’t be “top performing” anymore if all the top performing kids in DCPS (the vast majority of whom are white, since most UMC Black families don’t send their kids to public schools in DC) leave. DCPS doesn’t have enough high performing kids right now to improve all schools by randomly distributing them, and it would have even less if it decided to kill neighborhood schools. I guarantee you that such a move would send the school system into a downward spiral.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Aren’t they adding schools in NW?

Anything could happen. DC is even studying a 100 percent lottery assignment system, with string at risk preferences.. In 5 years AU Park students might be assigned Hearst or even to a school in SE, not necessarily their neighborhood school. This is the only way to address DEI meaningfully in DCPS.

The surest way to start a new wave of white flight, just like in San Francisco. Even the staunchest progressives won’t have their kids bused from AU Park to SE. They will not be dumb enough to do this.

And why would this be such as bad thing? DCPS would become more diverse, with more inclusive access to top performing schools.

DCPS would become less diverse under such a plan. Exponentially so.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Aren’t they adding schools in NW?

Anything could happen. DC is even studying a 100 percent lottery assignment system, with string at risk preferences.. In 5 years AU Park students might be assigned Hearst or even to a school in SE, not necessarily their neighborhood school. This is the only way to address DEI meaningfully in DCPS.

The surest way to start a new wave of white flight, just like in San Francisco. Even the staunchest progressives won’t have their kids bused from AU Park to SE. They will not be dumb enough to do this.

And why would this be such as bad thing? DCPS would become more diverse, with more inclusive access to top performing schools.

Do you know anything about education? Can you point to one example where this strategy has actually worked out well?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Aren’t they adding schools in NW?

Anything could happen. DC is even studying a 100 percent lottery assignment system, with string at risk preferences.. In 5 years AU Park students might be assigned Hearst or even to a school in SE, not necessarily their neighborhood school. This is the only way to address DEI meaningfully in DCPS.

The surest way to start a new wave of white flight, just like in San Francisco. Even the staunchest progressives won’t have their kids bused from AU Park to SE. They will not be dumb enough to do this.

And why would this be such as bad thing? DCPS would become more diverse, with more inclusive access to top performing schools.

DCPS would become less diverse under such a plan. Exponentially so.

It depends on your view what diversity is. It would certainly accelerate DCPS becoming anti-racist.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Aren’t they adding schools in NW?

Anything could happen. DC is even studying a 100 percent lottery assignment system, with string at risk preferences.. In 5 years AU Park students might be assigned Hearst or even to a school in SE, not necessarily their neighborhood school. This is the only way to address DEI meaningfully in DCPS.

The surest way to start a new wave of white flight, just like in San Francisco. Even the staunchest progressives won’t have their kids bused from AU Park to SE. They will not be dumb enough to do this.

And why would this be such as bad thing? DCPS would become more diverse, with more inclusive access to top performing schools.

DCPS would become less diverse under such a plan. Exponentially so.

It depends on your view what diversity is. It would certainly accelerate DCPS becoming anti-racist.

A school system exclusively populated by poor black and brown kids is neither diverse nor anti-racist.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Aren’t they adding schools in NW?

Anything could happen. DC is even studying a 100 percent lottery assignment system, with string at risk preferences.. In 5 years AU Park students might be assigned Hearst or even to a school in SE, not necessarily their neighborhood school. This is the only way to address DEI meaningfully in DCPS.

The surest way to start a new wave of white flight, just like in San Francisco. Even the staunchest progressives won’t have their kids bused from AU Park to SE. They will not be dumb enough to do this.

And why would this be such as bad thing? DCPS would become more diverse, with more inclusive access to top performing schools.

DCPS would become less diverse under such a plan. Exponentially so.

It depends on your view what diversity is. It would certainly accelerate DCPS becoming anti-racist.

Oh stop. Racism is a two way street. Diversity is not and should not be the sole goal of any educational institution. Providing the best education possible for all kids should be. “Anti/racist - yawn!