What would a lawsuit over redistricting/school assignment look like?

[Anonymous]

Everyone is spinning about possible lawsuits and litigation over the boundary/school assignment changes. What do people think the actual claims would be, and the city's defense?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: the actual claims would be

. . . dismised for failure to state a claim upon which relief can be granted

[Anonymous]

what about loss of property? we all know the IB schools on that side of the park benefit in value by the good schools.

[Anonymous]

so while its not necessarily a "taking" of the land, if the govt acts in such an egregious way as to diminish the use/value of the property they might have an angle.

[Anonymous]

Most posters threaten lawsuits with no basis. I better not he rezoned from Deal to Hardy or I will sue.

[Anonymous]

No One Left Behind.
I will claim back by right to certain access to a good performing MS.

[Anonymous]

No One Left Behind.
Reinstate my right to access the neighborhood high performing HS with no lottery uncertainty.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:what about loss of property? we all know the IB schools on that side of the park benefit in value by the good schools.

Governmental immunity. Also since you don't own the school you aren't losing the property - hence, as PP said, failure to state a claim for which relief can be granted.

[Anonymous]

Claiming compensation for private school tuiton, DCPS City-Wide HS Lottery eliminating my guaranteed access to HS with acceptable academic standards .

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Claiming compensation for private school tuiton, DCPS City-Wide HS Lottery eliminating my guaranteed access to HS with acceptable academic standards .

I am not saying we will win. But we will definetly delay the process.

[Anonymous]

That the loss of proximate access will result in significant financial stress for parents who now have to arrange transport to distant schools and lose having an older sibling close by so have to pay for aftercare. And that the overcrowding is artificially created in the first case.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:what about loss of property? we all know the IB schools on that side of the park benefit in value by the good schools.

Governmental immunity. Also since you don't own the school you aren't losing the property - hence, as PP said, failure to state a claim for which relief can be granted.

Good attorney can mount any type of case. The problem will be to create a group of families with an homogenous-enough view. We are talking about 50-70 families needed. Difficult but not impossible (the huge Towers condo on Cathedral/New Mexico has already half of that number, and they are an already tight/consolidated community of parents).

[Anonymous]

And that the overcrowding is artificially created in the first case.

yes! 5 years ago. "Feeders rights"!

[Anonymous]

Agree with the person who yesterday said that the whole "inherited feeder even if OOB" system instituted by Rhee was actually a Trojan horse introduced to one day break DCPS as it is doing right now.

Because that is what it is doing.

Question is: Was Rhee that smart?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:what about loss of property? we all know the IB schools on that side of the park benefit in value by the good schools.

Governmental immunity. Also since you don't own the school you aren't losing the property - hence, as PP said, failure to state a claim for which relief can be granted.

Good attorney can mount any type of case. The problem will be to create a group of families with an homogenous-enough view. We are talking about 50-70 families needed. Difficult but not impossible (the huge Towers condo on Cathedral/New Mexico has already half of that number, and they are an already tight/consolidated community of parents).

Yes, just a couple of the huge condos on Cathedral, which are full of families with kids all in DCPS, could reach these numbers. I'll reach for them.