Why is the Foxhall Community Citizens Association scared of public school children?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:Its a private school type of area, private schools need support. I could ask why you are scared of handicap kids from the Lab school.

Private school type of area? The Lab School's students are sourced overwhelmingly from MD and VA. In contrast, the local public schools have some of the highest utilization rates in the entire city. A school that charges $50k in tuition and predominantly educates children from families who do not live in the District has no business in commanding implicit subsidies from DC taxpayers.

1st off the reason Ward 3 is so full and it has nothing to do with soccer fields. It has to do with DC lets the everyone try to squeeze into the life boats of a few not poor schools from the sinking rest of the system that is DCPS. MD and VA border is just a few miles away and they have just as much right to the Lab school as you do. Most of DC is further and a private school is free to admit anyone they like. You sound bitter you didn't get what you wanted, maybe pay for private.

You're trolling is so over the top I have to assume you are a private school hater.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Its a private school type of area, private schools need support. I could ask why you are scared of handicap kids from the Lab school.

Private school type of area? The Lab School's students are sourced overwhelmingly from MD and VA. In contrast, the local public schools have some of the highest utilization rates in the entire city. A school that charges $50k in tuition and predominantly educates children from families who do not live in the District has no business in commanding implicit subsidies from DC taxpayers.

1st off the reason Ward 3 is so full and it has nothing to do with soccer fields. It has to do with DC lets the everyone try to squeeze into the life boats of a few not poor schools from the sinking rest of the system that is DCPS. MD and VA border is just a few miles away and they have just as much right to the Lab school as you do. Most of DC is further and a private school is free to admit anyone they like. You sound bitter you didn't get what you wanted, maybe pay for private.

You are not making any sense.

Anyone from MD, VA or even CA and SD is indeed welcome to attend the Lab School. But it is poor economic and social policy for DC taxpayers to subsidize their enrolment, particularly when doing so undermines efforts to raise standards of public education in DC.

But I will say that it's nice to see you acknowledging that you have no argument by resorting to the last vestige of those who have nothing constructive to say, the ad holmium attack.

[Anonymous]

The FCCA meeting is at 7pm tonight. The Zoom link to the meeting can be found on the left sidebar here: https://foxhall.org

[Anonymous]

Looks like these folks are back at it again. They’ve been distributing flyers around the neighborhood making absurd and patently false claims that the new school will “destroy” [their] (they use “our”) park and facilities. There are “Save Hardy Park” yard signs as well. They are holding a meeting this Tuesday to further project their hatred of public school children.

[Anonymous]

It is so stupid to put another public school in a remote part of DC with minimal/no transit access. They should cancel this purchase.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is so stupid to put another public school in a remote part of DC with minimal/no transit access. They should cancel this purchase.

“Remote part of DC”. That’s an interesting turn of phrase, like MacArthur Blvd constitutes some strange wilderness.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Its a private school type of area, private schools need support. I could ask why you are scared of handicap kids from the Lab school.

Private school type of area? The Lab School's students are sourced overwhelmingly from MD and VA. In contrast, the local public schools have some of the highest utilization rates in the entire city. A school that charges $50k in tuition and predominantly educates children from families who do not live in the District has no business in commanding implicit subsidies from DC taxpayers.

1st off the reason Ward 3 is so full and it has nothing to do with soccer fields. It has to do with DC lets the everyone try to squeeze into the life boats of a few not poor schools from the sinking rest of the system that is DCPS. MD and VA border is just a few miles away and they have just as much right to the Lab school as you do. Most of DC is further and a private school is free to admit anyone they like. You sound bitter you didn't get what you wanted, maybe pay for private.

This is a John-Oliver-worthy non-sequitur. To say "it has nothing to do with soccer fields" when no one else is talking about soccer fields? What?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:It is so stupid to put another public school in a remote part of DC with minimal/no transit access. They should cancel this purchase.

No, what's stupid is a system where three quarters of the students travel outside of their neighborhoods to attend public school. Neighborhood schools make sense from a logistics standpoint.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:OMG. Would some kind soul break down this extremely long post?

Let me try . . . The Foxhall Community Citizens Association (FCCA) is scared of public school children. The public school serving Foxhall - as with many others in Ward 3 - is over-crowded. A solution to this problem appeared in the form of a public school building leased out to a wealthy public school until 2023. Instead of doing what the community wanted and advocating for this public school building to be given back to DCPS, the FCCA did all it could to ensure the lease was extended in virtual perpetuity. The FCCA eventually got what it wanted, but the city then announced a plan to build a new public elementary school right next to that school building. This new school building may end up taking away a bunch of land currently used for a public park. In response, the FCCA is pulling all sorts of shenanigans - including naked attempts to misrepresent community sentiment and harking back to the old NIMBY favorite on parking concerns - to stop the construction of a public school building that would help alleviate overcrowding in the Wilson feeder pattern.

To be even more specific, they are afraid of low income school children. I’m sure many of them have a “Hate has no home here” sign in their front yards but god forbid “those” kids invade the neighborhood. Let’s just call it for what it is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:It is so stupid to put another public school in a remote part of DC with minimal/no transit access. They should cancel this purchase.

“Remote part of DC”. That’s an interesting turn of phrase, like MacArthur Blvd constitutes some strange wilderness.

It’s not remote, it’s directly under the highway in the sky. ✈️✈️✈️

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Its a private school type of area, private schools need support. I could ask why you are scared of handicap kids from the Lab school.

This wins for dumbest post I've ever seen on DCUM. Private schools are PRIVATE. The support they need comes in the form of tuition payments. They do not need shady back room deals to leverage public resources at below-market cost.

And the ableist language in your concern trolling bolded above really gives away who you are.

- A former Lab school parent and donor

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Its a private school type of area, private schools need support. I could ask why you are scared of handicap kids from the Lab school.

Private school type of area? The Lab School's students are sourced overwhelmingly from MD and VA. In contrast, the local public schools have some of the highest utilization rates in the entire city. A school that charges $50k in tuition and predominantly educates children from families who do not live in the District has no business in commanding implicit subsidies from DC taxpayers.

1st off the reason Ward 3 is so full and it has nothing to do with soccer fields. It has to do with DC lets the everyone try to squeeze into the life boats of a few not poor schools from the sinking rest of the system that is DCPS. MD and VA border is just a few miles away and they have just as much right to the Lab school as you do. Most of DC is further and a private school is free to admit anyone they like. You sound bitter you didn't get what you wanted, maybe pay for private.

They don't have a right to my tax dollars. Full stop. Try again, dumb@ss.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:OMG. Would some kind soul break down this extremely long post?

Let me try . . . The Foxhall Community Citizens Association (FCCA) is scared of public school children. The public school serving Foxhall - as with many others in Ward 3 - is over-crowded. A solution to this problem appeared in the form of a public school building leased out to a wealthy public school until 2023. Instead of doing what the community wanted and advocating for this public school building to be given back to DCPS, the FCCA did all it could to ensure the lease was extended in virtual perpetuity. The FCCA eventually got what it wanted, but the city then announced a plan to build a new public elementary school right next to that school building. This new school building may end up taking away a bunch of land currently used for a public park. In response, the FCCA is pulling all sorts of shenanigans - including naked attempts to misrepresent community sentiment and harking back to the old NIMBY favorite on parking concerns - to stop the construction of a public school building that would help alleviate overcrowding in the Wilson feeder pattern.

are these the same people who years ago opposed the creation of a DC mayor mansion in a large land parcel owned by late Lebanon PM Hariri on the ground of traffic and so on, succeeded in their efforts only to see the land sold to developers that built 100+ large homes (probably bringing more traffic and disruption than a governor-like mansion would have brought)?

[Anonymous]

it's going to backfire on them big time if they try and lock people out of this public meeting tomorrow. I would be impacted by this school but don't live directly in the neighborhood where the school will be built. I want to watch this meeting.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:This group was perfectly happy to give away a public building to an elite private school serving non-DC students for pennies on the dollar in order to prevent it from being put into public use. A proposal for a public school nearby is made and all of a sudden all these concerns about parking and traffic become all important. Basic logic dictates that if you really care about parking and traffic, the last thing you want in your neighborhood is an elite private school serving non-DC students. But of course this has nothing to do with that but rather horrible prejudices apparently harbored by this group.

I don't think vilifying the Lab school is appropriate. Lots of DC kids go to Lab and DC pays for poor kids to go private day schools like this. The student population there is a mix of self pay and kids paid for by school districts (DC, VA and MD). No one wants to send their kid to a special education private school-its a school of last resort. Its not "elite".

Just stop. You are embarrassing yourself.