Mary Cheh, homeless shelters and Stoddert

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Peel all the layers of self-justification (cronies, alternative sites, and I love the one about unacceptably large irresponsible families) away, and....

"Make the poors go away" is not an acceptable way to live.

You're the only one who is saying that.

Isn't that the whole point of speaking in coded language?

[Anonymous]

Both the Stoddert community and the children served by the homeless shelter would benefit form these kids attending Stoddert. But there is no room at stoddery, or at any NWDC school.

Instead of stuffing more trailers at these schools, DCPS needs to do the logical thing of reclaiming the old Hardy school on Foxhall and opening it as an elementary school to relieve overcrowding at Key, Stoddert, and elsewhere. They can cancel the current lease if they wsnt. Then there will be room for these kids, as well as arts, etc at NW schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Both the Stoddert community and the children served by the homeless shelter would benefit form these kids attending Stoddert. But there is no room at stoddery, or at any NWDC school.

Instead of stuffing more trailers at these schools, DCPS needs to do the logical thing of reclaiming the old Hardy school on Foxhall and opening it as an elementary school to relieve overcrowding at Key, Stoddert, and elsewhere. They can cancel the current lease if they wsnt. Then there will be room for these kids, as well as arts, etc at NW schools.

It's sort of nutty to be talking about opening another elementary school in Upper NW, when there are schools that are majority OOB (Eaton, approx. 60%; Hearst - approx. 80% !), which means that there is plenty of excess capacity to absorb IB increases by throttling back OOB enrollment. Even Stoddert has OOB slots.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Both the Stoddert community and the children served by the homeless shelter would benefit form these kids attending Stoddert. But there is no room at stoddery, or at any NWDC school.

Instead of stuffing more trailers at these schools, DCPS needs to do the logical thing of reclaiming the old Hardy school on Foxhall and opening it as an elementary school to relieve overcrowding at Key, Stoddert, and elsewhere. They can cancel the current lease if they wsnt. Then there will be room for these kids, as well as arts, etc at NW schools.

It's sort of nutty to be talking about opening another elementary school in Upper NW, when there are schools that are majority OOB (Eaton, approx. 60%; Hearst - approx. 80% !), which means that there is plenty of excess capacity to absorb IB increases by throttling back OOB enrollment. Even Stoddert has OOB slots.

Key is over capacity by 100. Murch by 400. Stoddert shouldn't be accepting oob if kids are in trailers. Janney by at least 100. More than enough to fill a school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Relax everyone. The spot where the shelter may be is still a patch of grass.

Your true colors are showing.

The biggest threat to a shelter being built at that location would be the crony deal that underlies it.

Yeah, I heard that the developer would make some outrageous amount in rent. And I also heard that the Glover Park site was identified at the last minute because Bowser needed a site in Ward 3 and the other one they were looking at (I think maybe in the Murch district) couldn't be secured quickly enough to meet the Mayor's announcement. WOuld love someone in the know to post some details of the facts.

Jeff posted something in the previous thread on this topic noting that the two other Ward 3 properties were in Tenleytown. I'm pretty sure they were properties owned by AU. He also indicated that the tentative expense per unit was estimated to be something in the vicinity of $3,000. For that price, you could rent apartments for these families in various buildings throughout the entire ward. That's a lot of money going to developers, not the homeless.

[Anonymous]

Developers run this town.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Both the Stoddert community and the children served by the homeless shelter would benefit form these kids attending Stoddert. But there is no room at stoddery, or at any NWDC school.

Instead of stuffing more trailers at these schools, DCPS needs to do the logical thing of reclaiming the old Hardy school on Foxhall and opening it as an elementary school to relieve overcrowding at Key, Stoddert, and elsewhere. They can cancel the current lease if they wsnt. Then there will be room for these kids, as well as arts, etc at NW schools.

It's sort of nutty to be talking about opening another elementary school in Upper NW, when there are schools that are majority OOB (Eaton, approx. 60%; Hearst - approx. 80% !), which means that there is plenty of excess capacity to absorb IB increases by throttling back OOB enrollment. Even Stoddert has OOB slots.

Key is over capacity by 100. Murch by 400. Stoddert shouldn't be accepting oob if kids are in trailers. Janney by at least 100. More than enough to fill a school.

Despite tremendous overcrowding, Murch has nearly 100 OOB students. Either DCPS enrollment planners never got beyond third grade math or there is no political will to curtail OOB slots.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Peel all the layers of self-justification (cronies, alternative sites, and I love the one about unacceptably large irresponsible families) away, and....

"Make the poors go away" is not an acceptable way to live.

You're the only one who is saying that.

Isn't that the whole point of speaking in coded language?

Mary Cheh sounds like a stereotypical limousine liberal. Loves the poors... from afar. I never heard her once say "we have to do right by our homeless families", just "look at the impact on Stoddert".

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Both the Stoddert community and the children served by the homeless shelter would benefit form these kids attending Stoddert. But there is no room at stoddery, or at any NWDC school.

Instead of stuffing more trailers at these schools, DCPS needs to do the logical thing of reclaiming the old Hardy school on Foxhall and opening it as an elementary school to relieve overcrowding at Key, Stoddert, and elsewhere. They can cancel the current lease if they wsnt. Then there will be room for these kids, as well as arts, etc at NW schools.

It's sort of nutty to be talking about opening another elementary school in Upper NW, when there are schools that are majority OOB (Eaton, approx. 60%; Hearst - approx. 80% !), which means that there is plenty of excess capacity to absorb IB increases by throttling back OOB enrollment. Even Stoddert has OOB slots.

Key is over capacity by 100. Murch by 400. Stoddert shouldn't be accepting oob if kids are in trailers. Janney by at least 100. More than enough to fill a school.

Despite tremendous overcrowding, Murch has nearly 100 OOB students. Either DCPS enrollment planners never got beyond third grade math or there is no political will to curtail OOB slots.

If they reclaim the Foxhall school they can get rid of trailers and leave a little room for oob

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Peel all the layers of self-justification (cronies, alternative sites, and I love the one about unacceptably large irresponsible families) away, and....

"Make the poors go away" is not an acceptable way to live.

You're the only one who is saying that.

Isn't that the whole point of speaking in coded language?

Mary Cheh sounds like a stereotypical limousine liberal. Loves the poors... from afar. I never heard her once say "we have to do right by our homeless families", just "look at the impact on Stoddert".

It’s more than that. One site that the Bowser administration considered for the Ward 3 shelter location was in the Connecticut Ave and Albemarle area. However, in the end (surprise) Mary Cheh’s neighborhood wasn’t selected for the homeless shelter, and it will be located instead in Observatory Circle/Glover.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Relax everyone. The spot where the shelter may be is still a patch of grass.

Your true colors are showing.

The biggest threat to a shelter being built at that location would be the crony deal that underlies it.

Yeah, I heard that the developer would make some outrageous amount in rent. And I also heard that the Glover Park site was identified at the last minute because Bowser needed a site in Ward 3 and the other one they were looking at (I think maybe in the Murch district) couldn't be secured quickly enough to meet the Mayor's announcement. WOuld love someone in the know to post some details of the facts.

Jeff posted something in the previous thread on this topic noting that the two other Ward 3 properties were in Tenleytown. I'm pretty sure they were properties owned by AU. He also indicated that the tentative expense per unit was estimated to be something in the vicinity of $3,000. For that price, you could rent apartments for these families in various buildings throughout the entire ward. That's a lot of money going to developers, not the homeless.

I keep hearing about all these apartments which cost less. DC can't get multi-unit property owners to accept vouchers for rapid rehousing or transitional housing, so why do you think that they would jump at the chance to have homeless families as tenants for a three-month period?

[Anonymous]

OP please read this, grow some compassion, and stop worrying about homeless kids overwhelming your school.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/a-hidden-world-desperation-and-cramped-living-for-homeless-families-in-dc-motels/2016/01/28/279adfda-b4d8-11e5-a76a-0b5145e8679a_story.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:OP please read this, grow some compassion, and stop worrying about homeless kids overwhelming your school.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/a-hidden-world-desperation-and-cramped-living-for-homeless-families-in-dc-motels/2016/01/28/279adfda-b4d8-11e5-a76a-0b5145e8679a_story.html

It is possible to do both: support homeless kids AND be concerned about the local school's resources to support them. It is Muriel Bowser's job to have the foresight to consider the needs of ALL of the citizens. With regard to the shelter, she is not doing that...yet. And perhaps this demonstrates Bowser does not have the competence to govern effectively: in the past two weeks, Ward 3 has seen three jaw-dropping, incompetent hits from her Administration: no notice of not enough money to support Murch's long-planned renovation; no notice of plans to end Fillmore Art Center's 42-year legacy in Ward 3; no notice of decision to erect a homeless shelter full of school-age kids. I would have expected such foolishness from 1980's DC, but I perhaps foolishly expected better from Bowser.

[Anonymous]

I expected Bowser to be disorganized.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OP please read this, grow some compassion, and stop worrying about homeless kids overwhelming your school.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/a-hidden-world-desperation-and-cramped-living-for-homeless-families-in-dc-motels/2016/01/28/279adfda-b4d8-11e5-a76a-0b5145e8679a_story.html

It is possible to do both: support homeless kids AND be concerned about the local school's resources to support them. It is Muriel Bowser's job to have the foresight to consider the needs of ALL of the citizens. With regard to the shelter, she is not doing that...yet. And perhaps this demonstrates Bowser does not have the competence to govern effectively: in the past two weeks, Ward 3 has seen three jaw-dropping, incompetent hits from her Administration: no notice of not enough money to support Murch's long-planned renovation; no notice of plans to end Fillmore Art Center's 42-year legacy in Ward 3; no notice of decision to erect a homeless shelter full of school-age kids. I would have expected such foolishness from 1980's DC, but I perhaps foolishly expected better from Bowser.

I hoped that Bowser somehow would turn out better in office, but her vapid, "platitudes to the people" campaign should have put the voters on notice that she would be a mediocre mayor at best.