Win-win solutions for Brent?

[Anonymous]

^^^ Once again, no one has made the claim that any school, much less the students who attend, is "undeserving" of a quality public education.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Right now, VanNess is the wild card in terms of Brent and parents such as OP should be demanding answers from DCPS.

How is Van Ness a wild card? As an unaffiliated overflow school for Brent? Potential "cluster" partner?

Also an overflow school for Amidon, and another convenient OOB school on the Hill in the model of LT.

[Anonymous]

Articulate and regular Brent poster (who I think is a male, Hill staffer and whose first kid is about 3) .....

when are you going to get it through your head that you and your 60 affluent white neighbors are not going to effect structural change to suit your highly specific wants (not needs)?

You come on here about every two weeks publicly wringing your hands because your white 3 year old and 1 year old will have to attend school -- as it stands now -- with children of color whose parents did not get a Masters of Public Policy from U. of Michigan.

Your fear that you may not be able to customize a PUBLIC resource to your highly specific wishes is palpable. (Hey! What if we drew a line around my rowhouse and Dave's and Brandon's, and possibly a few other rowhouses on this block, but ONLY if the current owners sell before 2015, AND they sell to a white couple who both have grad degrees and Hill experience .. otherwise, just me and Dave and Brandon's kids should go to this tiny school that we'll create walking distance to our house with preference for both proximity AND HHI. ANd DCPS will pay for us to have this sweet, little separate school that must be kept below 13.6% FARMS at all time, and if that percentage creeps up above 14%, then DCPS should revisit boundaries to lop off those 3 rental rowhouses where the single moms lives so their children can't be in the same building as my Acclerated Learners (who are 2 and 3, mind you, but then again, I have a Masters from U. MIchigan and work for the Senate Committee on Nonsense, did I mention that? So I'm pretty sure my white 2 year old will in fact be an Accelerated Learner.

Anyway, do you guys have any thoughts on how my three neighbors with JDs and I can get our own little sweet school on the taxpayers dime, while redlining out the black kids?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Articulate and regular Brent poster (who I think is a male, Hill staffer and whose first kid is about 3) .....

when are you going to get it through your head that you and your 60 affluent white neighbors are not going to effect structural change to suit your highly specific wants (not needs)?

You come on here about every two weeks publicly wringing your hands because your white 3 year old and 1 year old will have to attend school -- as it stands now -- with children of color whose parents did not get a Masters of Public Policy from U. of Michigan.

Your fear that you may not be able to customize a PUBLIC resource to your highly specific wishes is palpable. (Hey! What if we drew a line around my rowhouse and Dave's and Brandon's, and possibly a few other rowhouses on this block, but ONLY if the current owners sell before 2015, AND they sell to a white couple who both have grad degrees and Hill experience .. otherwise, just me and Dave and Brandon's kids should go to this tiny school that we'll create walking distance to our house with preference for both proximity AND HHI. ANd DCPS will pay for us to have this sweet, little separate school that must be kept below 13.6% FARMS at all time, and if that percentage creeps up above 14%, then DCPS should revisit boundaries to lop off those 3 rental rowhouses where the single moms lives so their children can't be in the same building as my Acclerated Learners (who are 2 and 3, mind you, but then again, I have a Masters from U. MIchigan and work for the Senate Committee on Nonsense, did I mention that? So I'm pretty sure my white 2 year old will in fact be an Accelerated Learner.

Anyway, do you guys have any thoughts on how my three neighbors with JDs and I can get our own little sweet school on the taxpayers dime, while redlining out the black kids?

+1

And, I'd like to buy the PP a round.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Most Brent parents will hate the idea.

Tyler has taken a long time to be acceptable to many on the Hill even the SI program.

When my oldest child started preschool (in 2007), Brent and Tyler were about equally desirable, both more desirable than Maury. Tyler has progressed way more slowly.

Yes, spend some quality time at Tyler and you will see that it has a really long way to go.

[Anonymous]

It seems like a problem with this idea would be that people from both catchment areas who didn't get into Brent in the lottery would have no other option but Spanish Immersion as an IB option. If there are more people who want something other than SI than there are spaces, what will these people do besides OOB elsewhere. SI is usually a choice that people are given, but it doesn't seem to be a requirement for any family as their only IB option. (Correct me if I am wrong and this is what Oyster families are offered. I don't know if there is another IB option in the Oyster neighborhood.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Articulate and regular Brent poster (who I think is a male, Hill staffer and whose first kid is about 3) .....

when are you going to get it through your head that you and your 60 affluent white neighbors are not going to effect structural change to suit your highly specific wants (not needs)?

You come on here about every two weeks publicly wringing your hands because your white 3 year old and 1 year old will have to attend school -- as it stands now -- with children of color whose parents did not get a Masters of Public Policy from U. of Michigan.

Your fear that you may not be able to customize a PUBLIC resource to your highly specific wishes is palpable. (Hey! What if we drew a line around my rowhouse and Dave's and Brandon's, and possibly a few other rowhouses on this block, but ONLY if the current owners sell before 2015, AND they sell to a white couple who both have grad degrees and Hill experience .. otherwise, just me and Dave and Brandon's kids should go to this tiny school that we'll create walking distance to our house with preference for both proximity AND HHI. ANd DCPS will pay for us to have this sweet, little separate school that must be kept below 13.6% FARMS at all time, and if that percentage creeps up above 14%, then DCPS should revisit boundaries to lop off those 3 rental rowhouses where the single moms lives so their children can't be in the same building as my Acclerated Learners (who are 2 and 3, mind you, but then again, I have a Masters from U. MIchigan and work for the Senate Committee on Nonsense, did I mention that? So I'm pretty sure my white 2 year old will in fact be an Accelerated Learner.

Anyway, do you guys have any thoughts on how my three neighbors with JDs and I can get our own little sweet school on the taxpayers dime, while redlining out the black kids?

Resentment or jealosy? Either way it is a bitch, especially when seasoned width you projection of racism.

[Anonymous]

^^^ PP is obviously off her cray cray meds.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Articulate and regular Brent poster (who I think is a male, Hill staffer and whose first kid is about 3) .....

when are you going to get it through your head that you and your 60 affluent white neighbors are not going to effect structural change to suit your highly specific wants (not needs)?

You come on here about every two weeks publicly wringing your hands because your white 3 year old and 1 year old will have to attend school -- as it stands now -- with children of color whose parents did not get a Masters of Public Policy from U. of Michigan.

Your fear that you may not be able to customize a PUBLIC resource to your highly specific wishes is palpable. (Hey! What if we drew a line around my rowhouse and Dave's and Brandon's, and possibly a few other rowhouses on this block, but ONLY if the current owners sell before 2015, AND they sell to a white couple who both have grad degrees and Hill experience .. otherwise, just me and Dave and Brandon's kids should go to this tiny school that we'll create walking distance to our house with preference for both proximity AND HHI. ANd DCPS will pay for us to have this sweet, little separate school that must be kept below 13.6% FARMS at all time, and if that percentage creeps up above 14%, then DCPS should revisit boundaries to lop off those 3 rental rowhouses where the single moms lives so their children can't be in the same building as my Acclerated Learners (who are 2 and 3, mind you, but then again, I have a Masters from U. MIchigan and work for the Senate Committee on Nonsense, did I mention that? So I'm pretty sure my white 2 year old will in fact be an Accelerated Learner.

Anyway, do you guys have any thoughts on how my three neighbors with JDs and I can get our own little sweet school on the taxpayers dime, while redlining out the black kids?

This is awful. You are a bad person. Shame on you.

[Anonymous]

Might be worth remembering that politicis is the art of the possible on this thread. Organizers of the Brent school boundaries working group have already spoken to DC City Council Committee on Education members about which boundaries may change, and the Brent-Tyler boundary, and relationship, are not on the table. This is because DCPS considers Tyler under-enrolled IB, like Watkins, and under-enrolled schools won't have their boundaries enlarged. Moreover, DCPS very rarely allows parents to choose between two IB schools.

What is being considered is drawing the Van Ness school boundaries to include the southern zone of the Brent District, killing two birds with one stone in DCPS' eyes by furnishing enough IB kids to seed the school for SY 2015-2016 and heading off over-crowding at Brent. DCPS is under increasing pressure from the big Capitol Hill Riverfront developers, particularly EYA (builder of the Capitol Quarter townhouses) to provide them with a school so they'll build more townhouses. Great, Brent District kids served up to keep developers happy. Many IB would much rather see Brent drop PreS3 in the medium-term, or even a classroom trailer or two on the small grounds.

Unless Wells and Kaya go are out of the picture politically within 18 months, nobody should be surprised if the Van Ness District includes a swathe of Brent's...

[Anonymous]

Where does EYA plan to construct all of these new Townhouses? Unless I am mistaken, all 323 units for Capotol Quarter have been completed. I can't wait to hear Catania and Wells try to seek crossing the CSX pit to residents. Mark my words, this is DOA.

[Anonymous]

Seek = sell

[Anonymous]

Who exactly would this "many IB" on whose behalf you or the "working group" purporting to speak? Do you even have a child currently attending Brent?

[Anonymous]

How many sped kids are there at Tyler (in the autism and LD programs plus in inclusion but still requiring special supports)? I believe it's at least 100. Where would they go?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Who exactly would this "many IB" on whose behalf you or the "working group" purporting to speak? Do you even have a child currently attending Brent?

A school boundaries working group of rising parents has been formed with the blessing of Principal Young.

The first meeting is in the Brent library tomorrow (Thurs) evening at 6:30.

The meeting announcement has been made via a list serv with 80 names, including almost the entire PreS3 and PreK4 wait lists, and at Monday night's meeting about early childhood programs/Reggio Emilia at Brent.

The rest of the school community is free to participate. There will be announcements in Brent's newsletters soon.