Boundary Study Townhalls - first one starts now

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:“I think we should send SES and Lafayette kids to the moon!” -PP, probably

SES and Lafayette deserve to be zoned for Ward 3. Money has it is privileges---and property values talk. SP is literally home to Jack...and...Jill. FFS. Make Chevy Chase cross the Rock Creek Park for ECE?What if our Teslas get scratched by construction debris? Woebegone Whitter with its rats? Tattered Takoma? We are so above it! Moreover, tons of SP and CC families don't even use the public schools (gag!), but we need to preserve our feeder pattern so that if we do sell our faux Tudors and bucolic bungalows to become digital nomads or what-evs, we can make as much money as possible. Porto has gotten pricey these days.

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Anonymous wrote:Push Shepherd to Coolidge and the south part of the Coolidge catchment further south to the underenrolled schools, just like Hardy is being pushed south to MacA. There are plenty of open seats at existing schools.

Or instead of pushing anyone EOTP which the city has clearly stated they don't want, push another school in W3 to Hardy and MacArthur. Easier pull to swallow sending kids to equal performing schools don't you think? Unless you really are determined to make JR and Deal all white.

Push some EOTP students south and you’ll get a higher performing school. Unless you don’t want to go where there are so many OOB kids? Why is that?

I don't live in Shepherd Park but your logic makes zero sense and you know it. Shepherd's 40 kids will make zero difference at Coolidge (already at 100% capacity). So you'd need to send 250 kids from Coolidge to Brookland middle and Dunbar. Then you can send the 40 kids from Shepherd and the 200 kids from Lafayette. Yes. I agree, that could be tenable. But now you got an under-enrolled Deal and JR, same as Hardy and MacArthur. It would make more sense to take some kids from Janney and send them to Hardy and MacArthur.

Also Deal/JR to Hardy/MA, you're more likely to have buy-in. With moving kids from Wells/Coolidge to Brookland/Dunbar and then Deal/JR to Wells/Coolidge, you're pissing off and possibly losing 450 families vs 200 from Janney (or insert W3 neighborhood). Also W3 going to Hardy/MA is as close to even trade as you can get. The other scenario, everyone goes down in quality. Not to mention, you now have an all white Deal/JR.

I’m confused why you think there are only white kids enrolled at Deal feeders WOTP

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Push Shepherd to Coolidge and the south part of the Coolidge catchment further south to the underenrolled schools, just like Hardy is being pushed south to MacA. There are plenty of open seats at existing schools.

Or instead of pushing anyone EOTP which the city has clearly stated they don't want, push another school in W3 to Hardy and MacArthur. Easier pull to swallow sending kids to equal performing schools don't you think? Unless you really are determined to make JR and Deal all white.

Push some EOTP students south and you’ll get a higher performing school. Unless you don’t want to go where there are so many OOB kids? Why is that?

I don't live in Shepherd Park but your logic makes zero sense and you know it. Shepherd's 40 kids will make zero difference at Coolidge (already at 100% capacity). So you'd need to send 250 kids from Coolidge to Brookland middle and Dunbar. Then you can send the 40 kids from Shepherd and the 200 kids from Lafayette. Yes. I agree, that could be tenable. But now you got an under-enrolled Deal and JR, same as Hardy and MacArthur. It would make more sense to take some kids from Janney and send them to Hardy and MacArthur.

Also Deal/JR to Hardy/MA, you're more likely to have buy-in. With moving kids from Wells/Coolidge to Brookland/Dunbar and then Deal/JR to Wells/Coolidge, you're pissing off and possibly losing 450 families vs 200 from Janney (or insert W3 neighborhood). Also W3 going to Hardy/MA is as close to even trade as you can get. The other scenario, everyone goes down in quality. Not to mention, you now have an all white Deal/JR.

I’m confused why you think there are only white kids enrolled at Deal feeders WOTP

Janney: 4% Black
Murch: 13% Black
Lafayette: 8% Black
Hearst: 17% Black
Deal: 26% Black
Hardy: 29% Black
DCPS: 57% Black, 22% Hispanic, 17% White

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:“I think we should send SES and Lafayette kids to the moon!” -PP, probably

SES and Lafayette deserve to be zoned for Ward 3. Money has it is privileges---and property values talk. SP is literally home to Jack...and...Jill. FFS. Make Chevy Chase cross the Rock Creek Park for ECE?What if our Teslas get scratched by construction debris? Woebegone Whitter with its rats? Tattered Takoma? We are so above it! Moreover, tons of SP and CC families don't even use the public schools (gag!), but we need to preserve our feeder pattern so that if we do sell our faux Tudors and bucolic bungalows to become digital nomads or what-evs, we can make as much money as possible. Porto has gotten pricey these days.

You're an ugly person. SP did not have a middle school 30 years ago when it was zoned for Deal. Wells is already packed. Stop misdirecting your ugliness. They should have better planned for a large middle school in North Ward 4 to accommodate Lafayette and Shepherd and Takoma. They did not. There is no other alternative other than to zone hundreds to Brookland to accommodate SP and CC at Wells. That doesn't make sense when Hardy and MA have space. You can use all your hate and ugliness towards SP and CC but it's misdirected. I'm sorry you're going to be zoned to Hardy. There are thousands in the city that would kill to be in your shoes. There's always GDS. Then again, you probably won't get in because you showed your ugliness to them when they took up too many neighborhood parking spots.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Push Shepherd to Coolidge and the south part of the Coolidge catchment further south to the underenrolled schools, just like Hardy is being pushed south to MacA. There are plenty of open seats at existing schools.

Or instead of pushing anyone EOTP which the city has clearly stated they don't want, push another school in W3 to Hardy and MacArthur. Easier pull to swallow sending kids to equal performing schools don't you think? Unless you really are determined to make JR and Deal all white.

Push some EOTP students south and you’ll get a higher performing school. Unless you don’t want to go where there are so many OOB kids? Why is that?

I don't live in Shepherd Park but your logic makes zero sense and you know it. Shepherd's 40 kids will make zero difference at Coolidge (already at 100% capacity). So you'd need to send 250 kids from Coolidge to Brookland middle and Dunbar. Then you can send the 40 kids from Shepherd and the 200 kids from Lafayette. Yes. I agree, that could be tenable. But now you got an under-enrolled Deal and JR, same as Hardy and MacArthur. It would make more sense to take some kids from Janney and send them to Hardy and MacArthur.

Also Deal/JR to Hardy/MA, you're more likely to have buy-in. With moving kids from Wells/Coolidge to Brookland/Dunbar and then Deal/JR to Wells/Coolidge, you're pissing off and possibly losing 450 families vs 200 from Janney (or insert W3 neighborhood). Also W3 going to Hardy/MA is as close to even trade as you can get. The other scenario, everyone goes down in quality. Not to mention, you now have an all white Deal/JR.

I’m confused why you think there are only white kids enrolled at Deal feeders WOTP

Janney: 4% Black
Murch: 13% Black
Lafayette: 8% Black
Hearst: 17% Black
Deal: 26% Black
Hardy: 29% Black
DCPS: 57% Black, 22% Hispanic, 17% White

4%/8% Black? Throw away the whole school boundary. Either that or Janney and Lafayette should be 100% at risk for any set aside seats. They also need to zone a sliver of Lafayette to Shepherd and a sliver away from Janney. Don't re-zone. They should use any remainder seats for 100% at-risk lottery.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Push Shepherd to Coolidge and the south part of the Coolidge catchment further south to the underenrolled schools, just like Hardy is being pushed south to MacA. There are plenty of open seats at existing schools.

Or instead of pushing anyone EOTP which the city has clearly stated they don't want, push another school in W3 to Hardy and MacArthur. Easier pull to swallow sending kids to equal performing schools don't you think? Unless you really are determined to make JR and Deal all white.

Push some EOTP students south and you’ll get a higher performing school. Unless you don’t want to go where there are so many OOB kids? Why is that?

I don't live in Shepherd Park but your logic makes zero sense and you know it. Shepherd's 40 kids will make zero difference at Coolidge (already at 100% capacity). So you'd need to send 250 kids from Coolidge to Brookland middle and Dunbar. Then you can send the 40 kids from Shepherd and the 200 kids from Lafayette. Yes. I agree, that could be tenable. But now you got an under-enrolled Deal and JR, same as Hardy and MacArthur. It would make more sense to take some kids from Janney and send them to Hardy and MacArthur.

Great, yes, send some current Janney kids to MacA and push some kids EOTP south to the seriously underenrolled and under performing schools. Use any resulting capacity beyond IB students at all schools for at-risk kids. If the families of at-risk kids don’t want to move them out of their neighborhood school, great. You’ll more kids from the neighborhoods to the north to help bring up the school and support the at-risk kids there.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Push Shepherd to Coolidge and the south part of the Coolidge catchment further south to the underenrolled schools, just like Hardy is being pushed south to MacA. There are plenty of open seats at existing schools.

Or instead of pushing anyone EOTP which the city has clearly stated they don't want, push another school in W3 to Hardy and MacArthur. Easier pull to swallow sending kids to equal performing schools don't you think? Unless you really are determined to make JR and Deal all white.

Push some EOTP students south and you’ll get a higher performing school. Unless you don’t want to go where there are so many OOB kids? Why is that?

I don't live in Shepherd Park but your logic makes zero sense and you know it. Shepherd's 40 kids will make zero difference at Coolidge (already at 100% capacity). So you'd need to send 250 kids from Coolidge to Brookland middle and Dunbar. Then you can send the 40 kids from Shepherd and the 200 kids from Lafayette. Yes. I agree, that could be tenable. But now you got an under-enrolled Deal and JR, same as Hardy and MacArthur. It would make more sense to take some kids from Janney and send them to Hardy and MacArthur.

Great, yes, send some current Janney kids to MacA and push some kids EOTP south to the seriously underenrolled and under performing schools. Use any resulting capacity beyond IB students at all schools for at-risk kids. If the families of at-risk kids don’t want to move them out of their neighborhood school, great. You’ll more kids from the neighborhoods to the north to help bring up the school and support the at-risk kids there.

I'm fine with that. -PP

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:“I think we should send SES and Lafayette kids to the moon!” -PP, probably

SES and Lafayette deserve to be zoned for Ward 3. Money has it is privileges---and property values talk. SP is literally home to Jack...and...Jill. FFS. Make Chevy Chase cross the Rock Creek Park for ECE?What if our Teslas get scratched by construction debris? Woebegone Whitter with its rats? Tattered Takoma? We are so above it! Moreover, tons of SP and CC families don't even use the public schools (gag!), but we need to preserve our feeder pattern so that if we do sell our faux Tudors and bucolic bungalows to become digital nomads or what-evs, we can make as much money as possible. Porto has gotten pricey these days.

You're an ugly person. SP did not have a middle school 30 years ago when it was zoned for Deal. Wells is already packed. Stop misdirecting your ugliness. They should have better planned for a large middle school in North Ward 4 to accommodate Lafayette and Shepherd and Takoma. They did not. There is no other alternative other than to zone hundreds to Brookland to accommodate SP and CC at Wells. That doesn't make sense when Hardy and MA have space. You can use all your hate and ugliness towards SP and CC but it's misdirected. I'm sorry you're going to be zoned to Hardy. There are thousands in the city that would kill to be in your shoes. There's always GDS. Then again, you probably won't get in because you showed your ugliness to them when they took up too many neighborhood parking spots.

I am most sorry for your parents - I am sure that tried to raise you better than you have become (hateful, uber-entitled, teeming with contempt those you deem below your station in life). What is about the diversity of the rest of Ward 4 that brings out the torrential storms of your inner bile? Or scares you? I am not zoned for Hardy - I'm IB for Wells/Coolidge -and am tired off your poor behavior with its ready tinge of colorism, "let them eat cake"-ism, too bougie for Brightwood-ism, etc. DCPS can contract or expand any school, including Wells/Coolidge - and Shepherd Park and and least half of Lafayette can join us. Hell, the built a new high school in one summer.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:“I think we should send SES and Lafayette kids to the moon!” -PP, probably

SES and Lafayette deserve to be zoned for Ward 3. Money has it is privileges---and property values talk. SP is literally home to Jack...and...Jill. FFS. Make Chevy Chase cross the Rock Creek Park for ECE?What if our Teslas get scratched by construction debris? Woebegone Whitter with its rats? Tattered Takoma? We are so above it! Moreover, tons of SP and CC families don't even use the public schools (gag!), but we need to preserve our feeder pattern so that if we do sell our faux Tudors and bucolic bungalows to become digital nomads or what-evs, we can make as much money as possible. Porto has gotten pricey these days.

You're an ugly person. SP did not have a middle school 30 years ago when it was zoned for Deal. Wells is already packed. Stop misdirecting your ugliness. They should have better planned for a large middle school in North Ward 4 to accommodate Lafayette and Shepherd and Takoma. They did not. There is no other alternative other than to zone hundreds to Brookland to accommodate SP and CC at Wells. That doesn't make sense when Hardy and MA have space. You can use all your hate and ugliness towards SP and CC but it's misdirected. I'm sorry you're going to be zoned to Hardy. There are thousands in the city that would kill to be in your shoes. There's always GDS. Then again, you probably won't get in because you showed your ugliness to them when they took up too many neighborhood parking spots.

I am most sorry for your parents - I am sure that tried to raise you better than you have become (hateful, uber-entitled, teeming with contempt those you deem below your station in life). What is about the diversity of the rest of Ward 4 that brings out the torrential storms of your inner bile? Or scares you? I am not zoned for Hardy - I'm IB for Wells/Coolidge -and am tired off your poor behavior with its ready tinge of colorism, "let them eat cake"-ism, too bougie for Brightwood-ism, etc. DCPS can contract or expand any school, including Wells/Coolidge - and Shepherd Park and and least half of Lafayette can join us. Hell, the built a new high school in one summer.

I am a very brown skin HU grad that is not a member of J&J. Try not to paint all of SP with a broad brush. I'd be fine to be zoned for Wells/Coolidge if it could accommodate everyone. Agree that some of Lafayette should zone too. I do wish Wells were designed to be IB. Deal is not a magical place. In fact, it can be too much.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Push Shepherd to Coolidge and the south part of the Coolidge catchment further south to the underenrolled schools, just like Hardy is being pushed south to MacA. There are plenty of open seats at existing schools.

Or instead of pushing anyone EOTP which the city has clearly stated they don't want, push another school in W3 to Hardy and MacArthur. Easier pull to swallow sending kids to equal performing schools don't you think? Unless you really are determined to make JR and Deal all white.

Push some EOTP students south and you’ll get a higher performing school. Unless you don’t want to go where there are so many OOB kids? Why is that?

I don't live in Shepherd Park but your logic makes zero sense and you know it. Shepherd's 40 kids will make zero difference at Coolidge (already at 100% capacity). So you'd need to send 250 kids from Coolidge to Brookland middle and Dunbar. Then you can send the 40 kids from Shepherd and the 200 kids from Lafayette. Yes. I agree, that could be tenable. But now you got an under-enrolled Deal and JR, same as Hardy and MacArthur. It would make more sense to take some kids from Janney and send them to Hardy and MacArthur.

Also Deal/JR to Hardy/MA, you're more likely to have buy-in. With moving kids from Wells/Coolidge to Brookland/Dunbar and then Deal/JR to Wells/Coolidge, you're pissing off and possibly losing 450 families vs 200 from Janney (or insert W3 neighborhood). Also W3 going to Hardy/MA is as close to even trade as you can get. The other scenario, everyone goes down in quality. Not to mention, you now have an all white Deal/JR.

I’m confused why you think there are only white kids enrolled at Deal feeders WOTP

Janney: 4% Black
Murch: 13% Black
Lafayette: 8% Black
Hearst: 17% Black
Deal: 26% Black
Hardy: 29% Black
DCPS: 57% Black, 22% Hispanic, 17% White

Ok but that still doesn’t add up to an all white Deal and JR.

I’m also very confused why we must insist that schools be the exact same percentages of the city for every school. Are we insisting that schools in Ward 8 take Hispanic kids? Because I don’t think we are.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Push Shepherd to Coolidge and the south part of the Coolidge catchment further south to the underenrolled schools, just like Hardy is being pushed south to MacA. There are plenty of open seats at existing schools.

Or instead of pushing anyone EOTP which the city has clearly stated they don't want, push another school in W3 to Hardy and MacArthur. Easier pull to swallow sending kids to equal performing schools don't you think? Unless you really are determined to make JR and Deal all white.

Push some EOTP students south and you’ll get a higher performing school. Unless you don’t want to go where there are so many OOB kids? Why is that?

I don't live in Shepherd Park but your logic makes zero sense and you know it. Shepherd's 40 kids will make zero difference at Coolidge (already at 100% capacity). So you'd need to send 250 kids from Coolidge to Brookland middle and Dunbar. Then you can send the 40 kids from Shepherd and the 200 kids from Lafayette. Yes. I agree, that could be tenable. But now you got an under-enrolled Deal and JR, same as Hardy and MacArthur. It would make more sense to take some kids from Janney and send them to Hardy and MacArthur.

Also Deal/JR to Hardy/MA, you're more likely to have buy-in. With moving kids from Wells/Coolidge to Brookland/Dunbar and then Deal/JR to Wells/Coolidge, you're pissing off and possibly losing 450 families vs 200 from Janney (or insert W3 neighborhood). Also W3 going to Hardy/MA is as close to even trade as you can get. The other scenario, everyone goes down in quality. Not to mention, you now have an all white Deal/JR.

I’m confused why you think there are only white kids enrolled at Deal feeders WOTP

Janney: 4% Black
Murch: 13% Black
Lafayette: 8% Black
Hearst: 17% Black
Deal: 26% Black
Hardy: 29% Black
DCPS: 57% Black, 22% Hispanic, 17% White

Ok but that still doesn’t add up to an all white Deal and JR.

I’m also very confused why we must insist that schools be the exact same percentages of the city for every school. Are we insisting that schools in Ward 8 take Hispanic kids? Because I don’t think we are.

NP and you see no problem with the largest elementary school in the city being 8% black? You are being disingenuous.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Push Shepherd to Coolidge and the south part of the Coolidge catchment further south to the underenrolled schools, just like Hardy is being pushed south to MacA. There are plenty of open seats at existing schools.

Or instead of pushing anyone EOTP which the city has clearly stated they don't want, push another school in W3 to Hardy and MacArthur. Easier pull to swallow sending kids to equal performing schools don't you think? Unless you really are determined to make JR and Deal all white.

Push some EOTP students south and you’ll get a higher performing school. Unless you don’t want to go where there are so many OOB kids? Why is that?

I don't live in Shepherd Park but your logic makes zero sense and you know it. Shepherd's 40 kids will make zero difference at Coolidge (already at 100% capacity). So you'd need to send 250 kids from Coolidge to Brookland middle and Dunbar. Then you can send the 40 kids from Shepherd and the 200 kids from Lafayette. Yes. I agree, that could be tenable. But now you got an under-enrolled Deal and JR, same as Hardy and MacArthur. It would make more sense to take some kids from Janney and send them to Hardy and MacArthur.

Also Deal/JR to Hardy/MA, you're more likely to have buy-in. With moving kids from Wells/Coolidge to Brookland/Dunbar and then Deal/JR to Wells/Coolidge, you're pissing off and possibly losing 450 families vs 200 from Janney (or insert W3 neighborhood). Also W3 going to Hardy/MA is as close to even trade as you can get. The other scenario, everyone goes down in quality. Not to mention, you now have an all white Deal/JR.

I’m confused why you think there are only white kids enrolled at Deal feeders WOTP

Janney: 4% Black
Murch: 13% Black
Lafayette: 8% Black
Hearst: 17% Black
Deal: 26% Black
Hardy: 29% Black
DCPS: 57% Black, 22% Hispanic, 17% White

Ok but that still doesn’t add up to an all white Deal and JR.

I’m also very confused why we must insist that schools be the exact same percentages of the city for every school. Are we insisting that schools in Ward 8 take Hispanic kids? Because I don’t think we are.

NP and you see no problem with the largest elementary school in the city being 8% black? You are being disingenuous.

And the second largest being 4%.

Also, nobody is willing to take metro to go to schools in Ward 8 so she's being super disingenuous. These are the top rated schools. Not only is it an access things but there is no way to even gain access to these schools because the schools don't have OOB spots and the neighbors fight tooth and nail preventing any type of legitimate low to mod income housing that has space for families. Some fortunate kids throughout the city gain access via Shepherd (40% OOB) and a lesser extent Hearst (23% OOB).

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Push Shepherd to Coolidge and the south part of the Coolidge catchment further south to the underenrolled schools, just like Hardy is being pushed south to MacA. There are plenty of open seats at existing schools.

Or instead of pushing anyone EOTP which the city has clearly stated they don't want, push another school in W3 to Hardy and MacArthur. Easier pull to swallow sending kids to equal performing schools don't you think? Unless you really are determined to make JR and Deal all white.

Push some EOTP students south and you’ll get a higher performing school. Unless you don’t want to go where there are so many OOB kids? Why is that?

I don't live in Shepherd Park but your logic makes zero sense and you know it. Shepherd's 40 kids will make zero difference at Coolidge (already at 100% capacity). So you'd need to send 250 kids from Coolidge to Brookland middle and Dunbar. Then you can send the 40 kids from Shepherd and the 200 kids from Lafayette. Yes. I agree, that could be tenable. But now you got an under-enrolled Deal and JR, same as Hardy and MacArthur. It would make more sense to take some kids from Janney and send them to Hardy and MacArthur.

Also Deal/JR to Hardy/MA, you're more likely to have buy-in. With moving kids from Wells/Coolidge to Brookland/Dunbar and then Deal/JR to Wells/Coolidge, you're pissing off and possibly losing 450 families vs 200 from Janney (or insert W3 neighborhood). Also W3 going to Hardy/MA is as close to even trade as you can get. The other scenario, everyone goes down in quality. Not to mention, you now have an all white Deal/JR.

I’m confused why you think there are only white kids enrolled at Deal feeders WOTP

Janney: 4% Black
Murch: 13% Black
Lafayette: 8% Black
Hearst: 17% Black
Deal: 26% Black
Hardy: 29% Black
DCPS: 57% Black, 22% Hispanic, 17% White

Ok but that still doesn’t add up to an all white Deal and JR.

I’m also very confused why we must insist that schools be the exact same percentages of the city for every school. Are we insisting that schools in Ward 8 take Hispanic kids? Because I don’t think we are.

Is anyone insisting on that? I think they are just pointing out that JR feeders are self segregated, in some cases extremely so.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2023/09/30/dc-school-boundary-study/

Bancroft and Shepherd parents getting called out, great. The Mt. Pleasant mother whose kids are in private school and whining b/c she may not be able to send her kids to J-R is super gross.

+1

She lives in boundary for Bancroft and chooses to send her kids to private until
HS and is ‘fretting’ about not having JR? Boo pay for private HS too if you are that worried.

Also…I find it hard to believe she really plans to send her kids to JR. Seems far more likely these kids go to private for HS or the family moves to Bethesda so they can go to Whitman. In which case, this sure feels like a smokescreen for concerns about property values.

“It’s what we bought into this community for, or one of the reasons. If Bancroft moved, I don’t know,” she says. They moved to the Bancroft community to send their kids to private school? That’s weird.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Push Shepherd to Coolidge and the south part of the Coolidge catchment further south to the underenrolled schools, just like Hardy is being pushed south to MacA. There are plenty of open seats at existing schools.

Or instead of pushing anyone EOTP which the city has clearly stated they don't want, push another school in W3 to Hardy and MacArthur. Easier pull to swallow sending kids to equal performing schools don't you think? Unless you really are determined to make JR and Deal all white.

Push some EOTP students south and you’ll get a higher performing school. Unless you don’t want to go where there are so many OOB kids? Why is that?

I don't live in Shepherd Park but your logic makes zero sense and you know it. Shepherd's 40 kids will make zero difference at Coolidge (already at 100% capacity). So you'd need to send 250 kids from Coolidge to Brookland middle and Dunbar. Then you can send the 40 kids from Shepherd and the 200 kids from Lafayette. Yes. I agree, that could be tenable. But now you got an under-enrolled Deal and JR, same as Hardy and MacArthur. It would make more sense to take some kids from Janney and send them to Hardy and MacArthur.

Also Deal/JR to Hardy/MA, you're more likely to have buy-in. With moving kids from Wells/Coolidge to Brookland/Dunbar and then Deal/JR to Wells/Coolidge, you're pissing off and possibly losing 450 families vs 200 from Janney (or insert W3 neighborhood). Also W3 going to Hardy/MA is as close to even trade as you can get. The other scenario, everyone goes down in quality. Not to mention, you now have an all white Deal/JR.

I’m confused why you think there are only white kids enrolled at Deal feeders WOTP

Janney: 4% Black
Murch: 13% Black
Lafayette: 8% Black
Hearst: 17% Black
Deal: 26% Black
Hardy: 29% Black
DCPS: 57% Black, 22% Hispanic, 17% White

Ok but that still doesn’t add up to an all white Deal and JR.

I’m also very confused why we must insist that schools be the exact same percentages of the city for every school. Are we insisting that schools in Ward 8 take Hispanic kids? Because I don’t think we are.

Is anyone insisting on that? I think they are just pointing out that JR feeders are self segregated, in some cases extremely so.

There is no way to fix that. Houses are 1 million plus. The apartments are accepting vouchers so more at risk kids are getting in to Murch and Hearst. Janney has no apartments and Lafayette has very few. Maybe they should move some of the apartment buildings to those schools.

The only other way to fix it is to blow up neighborhood schools and that is not going to happen.