New DCPS school on former Georgetown Day site will be a high school

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Anonymous wrote:Again reflecting DC's racial fears. The high schools are highly segregated, so the place for a new high school in DC is of course placed at the least accessible furthest corner of Georgetown.

Google Maps tells me if you get to the Anacostia Metro at 7:30 am, catch the Green Line then the D6, you can get to that location just before 9am.

Just the bus from Dupont Circle takes 36 minutes.

Who says all OOB kids come from EotR? You’d have to move heaven and earth to cut Janney out of Deal, but families who live IB for Janney will lottery for this school in droves. And that, plus the end of the Hardy-to-Wilson feed, will open up OOB seats at Wilson. Which is right on top of the train, a 30-minute ride from the Anacostia station. It’s a dynamic system.

They should bar kids currently zoned for Wilson from lotterying into this school, unless the plan really is mostly to open seats at Wilson. Doesn't really seem like it's serving the ostensible goal of maintaining citywide seats if a bunch of them are taken by kids who live one neighborhood outside of the boundary. My kids are zoned for Wilson, so theoretically my opinion is against my family's interests, but I don't see how this outcome would really be fair for the city as a whole.

That would be an enormous can of worms that probably isn't worth opening. I don't think there is anyone currently barred from city-wide seats right now. What if the school has specialties that you can't get at Wilson? What if someone wants a smaller school?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Again reflecting DC's racial fears. The high schools are highly segregated, so the place for a new high school in DC is of course placed at the least accessible furthest corner of Georgetown.

Google Maps tells me if you get to the Anacostia Metro at 7:30 am, catch the Green Line then the D6, you can get to that location just before 9am.

Just the bus from Dupont Circle takes 36 minutes.

DC jumped on the space when it came available without any thought for how to use it.

Changing feeder so that it is a Hardy + lottery is very interesting and probably the easiest way to alleviate the overcrowding at Wilson.
Many families LOVE Hardy b/c it is smaller than Deal so it hits the sweet spot of a strong school with enough students to give it critical mass.

There definitely are challenges with this decision of which current public transportation is one - but tat can be discussed and changed.

Maybe they could do an express bus that hits Ellington and whatever this new HS is.

For sure there needs to be a public transport infrastructure response to this.

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Anonymous wrote:Again reflecting DC's racial fears. The high schools are highly segregated, so the place for a new high school in DC is of course placed at the least accessible furthest corner of Georgetown.

Google Maps tells me if you get to the Anacostia Metro at 7:30 am, catch the Green Line then the D6, you can get to that location just before 9am.

Just the bus from Dupont Circle takes 36 minutes.

Who says all OOB kids come from EotR? You’d have to move heaven and earth to cut Janney out of Deal, but families who live IB for Janney will lottery for this school in droves. And that, plus the end of the Hardy-to-Wilson feed, will open up OOB seats at Wilson. Which is right on top of the train, a 30-minute ride from the Anacostia station. It’s a dynamic system.

They should bar kids currently zoned for Wilson from lotterying into this school, unless the plan really is mostly to open seats at Wilson. Doesn't really seem like it's serving the ostensible goal of maintaining citywide seats if a bunch of them are taken by kids who live one neighborhood outside of the boundary. My kids are zoned for Wilson, so theoretically my opinion is against my family's interests, but I don't see how this outcome would really be fair for the city as a whole.

That would be an enormous can of worms that probably isn't worth opening. I don't think there is anyone currently barred from city-wide seats right now. What if the school has specialties that you can't get at Wilson? What if someone wants a smaller school?

Yes, agree super odd idea which would never get off the ground.

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Anonymous wrote:Again reflecting DC's racial fears. The high schools are highly segregated, so the place for a new high school in DC is of course placed at the least accessible furthest corner of Georgetown.

Google Maps tells me if you get to the Anacostia Metro at 7:30 am, catch the Green Line then the D6, you can get to that location just before 9am.

So you wanna move some white people to Annacostia to hopefully full up all the open school seats? If the city wanted to get rid of high school boundaries they would have done it. Perhaps they did not cause they would have even more empty seats...

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Again reflecting DC's racial fears. The high schools are highly segregated, so the place for a new high school in DC is of course placed at the least accessible furthest corner of Georgetown.

Google Maps tells me if you get to the Anacostia Metro at 7:30 am, catch the Green Line then the D6, you can get to that location just before 9am.

So you wanna move some white people to Annacostia to hopefully full up all the open school seats? If the city wanted to get rid of high school boundaries they would have done it. Perhaps they did not cause they would have even more empty seats...

Listen to yourself, then reflect.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Again reflecting DC's racial fears. The high schools are highly segregated, so the place for a new high school in DC is of course placed at the least accessible furthest corner of Georgetown.

Google Maps tells me if you get to the Anacostia Metro at 7:30 am, catch the Green Line then the D6, you can get to that location just before 9am.

Just the bus from Dupont Circle takes 36 minutes.

Who says all OOB kids come from EotR? You’d have to move heaven and earth to cut Janney out of Deal, but families who live IB for Janney will lottery for this school in droves. And that, plus the end of the Hardy-to-Wilson feed, will open up OOB seats at Wilson. Which is right on top of the train, a 30-minute ride from the Anacostia station. It’s a dynamic system.

They should bar kids currently zoned for Wilson from lotterying into this school, unless the plan really is mostly to open seats at Wilson. Doesn't really seem like it's serving the ostensible goal of maintaining citywide seats if a bunch of them are taken by kids who live one neighborhood outside of the boundary. My kids are zoned for Wilson, so theoretically my opinion is against my family's interests, but I don't see how this outcome would really be fair for the city as a whole.

That would be an enormous can of worms that probably isn't worth opening. I don't think there is anyone currently barred from city-wide seats right now. What if the school has specialties that you can't get at Wilson? What if someone wants a smaller school?

Yes, agree super odd idea which would never get off the ground.

Yep. Lawsuit waiting to happen.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Again reflecting DC's racial fears. The high schools are highly segregated, so the place for a new high school in DC is of course placed at the least accessible furthest corner of Georgetown.

Google Maps tells me if you get to the Anacostia Metro at 7:30 am, catch the Green Line then the D6, you can get to that location just before 9am.

Just the bus from Dupont Circle takes 36 minutes.

Who says all OOB kids come from EotR? You’d have to move heaven and earth to cut Janney out of Deal, but families who live IB for Janney will lottery for this school in droves. And that, plus the end of the Hardy-to-Wilson feed, will open up OOB seats at Wilson. Which is right on top of the train, a 30-minute ride from the Anacostia station. It’s a dynamic system.

Well it’s going to take Janney kids an hour+ to get there, too, isn’t it? To get to Dupont and then over??

These aren’t little kids, they’re teenagers. It’s 3.5 miles door to door from Janney to this school. You can bike that in 20 minutes and walk in less than an hour. NBD.

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I feel bad for Hardy kids. The location and actual physical space sucks. It is a tiny lot for a high school.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Again reflecting DC's racial fears. The high schools are highly segregated, so the place for a new high school in DC is of course placed at the least accessible furthest corner of Georgetown.

Google Maps tells me if you get to the Anacostia Metro at 7:30 am, catch the Green Line then the D6, you can get to that location just before 9am.

Just the bus from Dupont Circle takes 36 minutes.

Who says all OOB kids come from EotR? You’d have to move heaven and earth to cut Janney out of Deal, but families who live IB for Janney will lottery for this school in droves. And that, plus the end of the Hardy-to-Wilson feed, will open up OOB seats at Wilson. Which is right on top of the train, a 30-minute ride from the Anacostia station. It’s a dynamic system.

Well it’s going to take Janney kids an hour+ to get there, too, isn’t it? To get to Dupont and then over??

These aren’t little kids, they’re teenagers. It’s 3.5 miles door to door from Janney to this school. You can bike that in 20 minutes and walk in less than an hour. NBD.

Isn't Janney zoned for Deal?

[Anonymous]

Of the portions that were proposed this makes the most sense. Hardy will be the feeder, so any family with a kid going to Hardy was already prepared to get them to the neighborhood.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Again reflecting DC's racial fears. The high schools are highly segregated, so the place for a new high school in DC is of course placed at the least accessible furthest corner of Georgetown.

Google Maps tells me if you get to the Anacostia Metro at 7:30 am, catch the Green Line then the D6, you can get to that location just before 9am.

I took 1.5 hours to get to my magnet school on the school bus. Committed high school students will make it happen. It WILL weed out students who are not committed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Palisades resident here: I am really excited about the possibility of getting more public transportation over here. More buses, fewer cars!!!

+1! The D6 and M4 need more buses on the route. And the new high school will need more routes altogether. Since the demise of the D5 there's not even a bus route that passes the new school heading south(the D6 turns off MacArthur at Q St).

[Anonymous]

With "dedicated citywide seats"-does that mean for at risk kids? too bad its so inconvenient get to for most "citywide kids"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Again reflecting DC's racial fears. The high schools are highly segregated, so the place for a new high school in DC is of course placed at the least accessible furthest corner of Georgetown.

Google Maps tells me if you get to the Anacostia Metro at 7:30 am, catch the Green Line then the D6, you can get to that location just before 9am.

I took 1.5 hours to get to my magnet school on the school bus. Committed high school students will make it happen. It WILL weed out students who are not committed.

Committed students are likely not considered "at risk" I would assume the dedicated seats will be for at risk kids

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Again reflecting DC's racial fears. The high schools are highly segregated, so the place for a new high school in DC is of course placed at the least accessible furthest corner of Georgetown.

Google Maps tells me if you get to the Anacostia Metro at 7:30 am, catch the Green Line then the D6, you can get to that location just before 9am.

So you wanna move some white people to Annacostia to hopefully full up all the open school seats? If the city wanted to get rid of high school boundaries they would have done it. Perhaps they did not cause they would have even more empty seats...

if the city wants to desegregate schools it would create a true magnet school centrally located. Dunbar is only at 50% capacity, turn that into a TJ or Boston Latin