DME Kicks Off DCPS Boundary Review; Changes Expected for 2015-16 School Year

[Anonymous]

^^ tongue in cheek

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I heard someone on the radio today who said the fairest proposed system would be to randomly assign students to particular DCPS schools, to assure a mixture of more affluent students and disadvantaged students. So a student in AU Park (and their siblings) might be assigned a spot in Ward 8 and a kid from Barry Farm could go to Janney.

I really, really hope they do it. It is the fairest thing!

And the easiest way to get affluent parents leaving the district in droves, eroding the tax base and making schools worse.

Many, many affluent people attend private school so this whole debate is silly. As an EotP resident, I feel my right to attend Deal is just as valid as JKLMM. I pay a very large amount in taxes. My money is just as good as yours.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I heard someone on the radio today who said the fairest proposed system would be to randomly assign students to particular DCPS schools, to assure a mixture of more affluent students and disadvantaged students. So a student in AU Park (and their siblings) might be assigned a spot in Ward 8 and a kid from Barry Farm could go to Janney.

I really, really hope they do it. It is the fairest thing!

And the easiest way to get affluent parents leaving the district in droves, eroding the tax base and making schools worse.

Many, many affluent people attend private school so this whole debate is silly. As an EotP resident, I feel my right to attend Deal is just as valid as JKLMM. I pay a very large amount in taxes. My money is just as good as yours.

You know what they call a EoTP resident with money? "Stupid."

You KNOW that's how it works in DC. LOL LOL

[Anonymous]

16:21, it's not the upper NW parents who don't want the poor kids in their schools. The poor kids have been there for years. It's the center city urban pioneers who don't want their kids around low income inc That why they go to charters

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I heard someone on the radio today who said the fairest proposed system would be to randomly assign students to particular DCPS schools, to assure a mixture of more affluent students and disadvantaged students. So a student in AU Park (and their siblings) might be assigned a spot in Ward 8 and a kid from Barry Farm could go to Janney.

I really, really hope they do it. It is the fairest thing!

And the easiest way to get affluent parents leaving the district in droves, eroding the tax base and making schools worse.

Many, many affluent people attend private school so this whole debate is silly. As an EotP resident, I feel my right to attend Deal is just as valid as JKLMM. I pay a very large amount in taxes. My money is just as good as yours.

Feel free to move west, then.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:16:21, it's not the upper NW parents who don't want the poor kids in their schools. The poor kids have been there for years. It's the center city urban pioneers who don't want their kids around low income inc That why they go to charters

Like they're the Sooners of Oklahoma.... riding into a savage land to claim their manifest destiny once real estate interest rates dropped to nearly zero and enough railroads.. oops! bike lanes were built

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Gotta keep the poor kids away from our "best and brightest." They're gonna contaminate them! Egads!!!

I know this is toungue in cheek and you can reduce it to that but truth is, if they don't economically integrate schools carefully, it can lead to a worse situation for disadvantaged kids than they have now.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:16:21, it's not the upper NW parents who don't want the poor kids in their schools. The poor kids have been there for years. It's the center city urban pioneers who don't want their kids around low income inc That why they go to charters

No. Wrong. It's about numbers. Center city pioneers are wary ( rightfully so) about being hugely outnumbered by poor kids. This would never happen in NW.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Gotta keep the poor kids away from our "best and brightest." They're gonna contaminate them! Egads!!!

I know this is toungue in cheek and you can reduce it to that but truth is, if they don't economically integrate schools carefully, it can lead to a worse situation for disadvantaged kids than they have now.

Thanks for recognizing the humor in all this. The bolded part is key.. I agree. But what I get sick of is what I perceive as a knee-jerk reaction to the "threat" of these roving gangs of "low SES" kids "polluting" the atmosphere of these bright, shining schools on a hill.

People need to get over themselves.

[Anonymous]

Random DCPS school assignment, like San Francisco tried, is not going to happen. Can you imagine stretching to buy a house in the Janney or Lafayette districts and then being told "your child has been assigned to Marion S. Barry Elementary School in Ward 8" ?! One City, baby.

I don't know what would be louder: the storm of protest outiside the District building or the squeak of tires as DC residents move to Maryland.

[Anonymous]

16:48, so the pioneers moved there because they craved a more diverse community, but just not TOO much diversity. Got it. Whatever helps them feel good.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Random DCPS school assignment, like San Francisco tried, is not going to happen. Can you imagine stretching to buy a house in the Janney or Lafayette districts and then being told "your child has been assigned to Marion S. Barry Elementary School in Ward 8" ?! One City, baby.

I don't know what would be louder: the storm of protest outiside the District building or the squeak of tires as DC residents move to Montgomery or Howard counties, Maryland.

FIXED. Also:

"Too many poor blacks in PG county."

^^^ wait for it

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:16:48, so the pioneers moved there because they craved a more diverse community, but just not TOO much diversity. Got it. Whatever helps them feel good.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Ok, pp. why so sure? Is DC above stupidity? It happened in San Fransisco.

Well, although anything is possible, to go the San Francisco route would be a major fight. If this concept were anywhere on the table, DCPS would not be taking up the current boundary fight. A boundary system is the exact opposite of what is happening in SF which is no boundaries/ full choice (with some neighborhood preference).

Again, your scenario makes no sense given the current boundary debate. The concept is just not on the table.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I listened to Dep. Mayor Smith yesterday on Kojo. It did not sound like geography was a particularly important boundary criteria for her (ironic, yes). Diversity, on the other hand, seems to be what the majority of parents are crying out for so that our kids will be able to compete in the 21st Century. Also, Kojo could not get a straight answer about grandfather provision. It sounded like younger siblings could be out of luck though. There was another education expert guest on the show who kept referring to Greek philosophers who advocated for a society where parents did not know the identities of their true children so that all kids would be loved equally. Scary.

I'm all for diversity but if it becomes a more important mission statement than academic quality, our kids will not succeed in the 21st Century.