Letter from Cancellor re moving schools - opps - I got caught moving my kid?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The big picture is that Bowser is going to have a hard time defending her leadership abilities when it comes to DCPS. I predict a decent candidate is gonna take a run at her.

"leadership abilities"

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I make $30k, zoned for Wilson and I don't want my kid going to Wilson. He risks his career to send his kid there. What am I missing?

Everything is relative. Look what the other options are in DCPS.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Wait a second -- he is renting, and he didn't just effing MOVE into a Wilson zone when he belatedly discovered the truth about Ellington? What's wrong with this guy?

The public records may not be up to date.

He moved here at least 5 months ahead of the rest of the family. Would be normal to be in an apartment alone here, then more with family.

Again, why he didn't move IB for a decent school - who knows. Clearly he / his wife didn't know to come to DCUM to talk about their lottery entries / where to live.

Whatever public records those refer to are out of date. He lives in Langdon in NE in a house he bought in June. That address is zoned to Langdon ES, McKinley MS, and Dunbar HS.

Langdon to Wilson HS is a helluva commute.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wait a second -- he is renting, and he didn't just effing MOVE into a Wilson zone when he belatedly discovered the truth about Ellington? What's wrong with this guy?

The public records may not be up to date.

He moved here at least 5 months ahead of the rest of the family. Would be normal to be in an apartment alone here, then more with family.

Again, why he didn't move IB for a decent school - who knows. Clearly he / his wife didn't know to come to DCUM to talk about their lottery entries / where to live.

Whatever public records those refer to are out of date. He lives in Langdon in NE in a house he bought in June. That address is zoned to Langdon ES, McKinley MS, and Dunbar HS.

Langdon to Wilson HS is a helluva commute.

Which goes back to the question of why he would have even considered living in NE with a kid in high school. Pretty crappy thing to do to your kid.

Compared to Ellington, it is an easier commute if the daughter is taking Metro and it's probably also an easier commute by car/carpool.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wait a second -- he is renting, and he didn't just effing MOVE into a Wilson zone when he belatedly discovered the truth about Ellington? What's wrong with this guy?

The public records may not be up to date.

He moved here at least 5 months ahead of the rest of the family. Would be normal to be in an apartment alone here, then more with family.

Again, why he didn't move IB for a decent school - who knows. Clearly he / his wife didn't know to come to DCUM to talk about their lottery entries / where to live.

Whatever public records those refer to are out of date. He lives in Langdon in NE in a house he bought in June. That address is zoned to Langdon ES, McKinley MS, and Dunbar HS.

Curious, how much did he pay for his home?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wait a second -- he is renting, and he didn't just effing MOVE into a Wilson zone when he belatedly discovered the truth about Ellington? What's wrong with this guy?

The public records may not be up to date.

He moved here at least 5 months ahead of the rest of the family. Would be normal to be in an apartment alone here, then more with family.

Again, why he didn't move IB for a decent school - who knows. Clearly he / his wife didn't know to come to DCUM to talk about their lottery entries / where to live.

Whatever public records those refer to are out of date. He lives in Langdon in NE in a house he bought in June. That address is zoned to Langdon ES, McKinley MS, and Dunbar HS.

Langdon to Wilson HS is a helluva commute.

Kids do this commute all the time especially from SW.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Robert White just called for the resignation of Wilson.

Nice job. I like him.

leadership

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wait a second -- he is renting, and he didn't just effing MOVE into a Wilson zone when he belatedly discovered the truth about Ellington? What's wrong with this guy?

The public records may not be up to date.

He moved here at least 5 months ahead of the rest of the family. Would be normal to be in an apartment alone here, then more with family.

Again, why he didn't move IB for a decent school - who knows. Clearly he / his wife didn't know to come to DCUM to talk about their lottery entries / where to live.

Whatever public records those refer to are out of date. He lives in Langdon in NE in a house he bought in June. That address is zoned to Langdon ES, McKinley MS, and Dunbar HS.

Curious, how much did he pay for his home?

$980K

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Robert White just called for the resignation of Wilson.

Nice job. I like him.

leadership

He should run for Mayor against Bowser. She hasn’t done anything, just cruising...

[Anonymous]

I assume no one on this board thinks that because Wilson went out of his way to move his child to Wilson High, he's racist?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wait a second -- he is renting, and he didn't just effing MOVE into a Wilson zone when he belatedly discovered the truth about Ellington? What's wrong with this guy?

The public records may not be up to date.

He moved here at least 5 months ahead of the rest of the family. Would be normal to be in an apartment alone here, then more with family.

Again, why he didn't move IB for a decent school - who knows. Clearly he / his wife didn't know to come to DCUM to talk about their lottery entries / where to live.

Whatever public records those refer to are out of date. He lives in Langdon in NE in a house he bought in June. That address is zoned to Langdon ES, McKinley MS, and Dunbar HS.

Curious, how much did he pay for his home?

$980K

Well, you can get a much nicer home for that amount in NE than WOTP, that's for sure--especially if you have 3 kids. It's also a more diverse neighborhood. I wonder if both of these influenced the thinking on this, and he assumed the school situation would work itself out (perhaps with assurances from those in DC?).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wait a second -- he is renting, and he didn't just effing MOVE into a Wilson zone when he belatedly discovered the truth about Ellington? What's wrong with this guy?

The public records may not be up to date.

He moved here at least 5 months ahead of the rest of the family. Would be normal to be in an apartment alone here, then more with family.

Again, why he didn't move IB for a decent school - who knows. Clearly he / his wife didn't know to come to DCUM to talk about their lottery entries / where to live.

Whatever public records those refer to are out of date. He lives in Langdon in NE in a house he bought in June. That address is zoned to Langdon ES, McKinley MS, and Dunbar HS.

Curious, how much did he pay for his home?

$980K

Well, you can get a much nicer home for that amount in NE than WOTP, that's for sure--especially if you have 3 kids. It's also a more diverse neighborhood. I wonder if both of these influenced the thinking on this, and he assumed the school situation would work itself out (perhaps with assurances from those in DC?).

P.S. The house I just looked up that fits the parameters looks pretty nice, and also huge (6brs). Coming from CA, his family might be used to everything looking pretty new and updated (BTDT ), so they may have balked at the typical 3-4brs you can get for that price WOTP.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wait a second -- he is renting, and he didn't just effing MOVE into a Wilson zone when he belatedly discovered the truth about Ellington? What's wrong with this guy?

The public records may not be up to date.

He moved here at least 5 months ahead of the rest of the family. Would be normal to be in an apartment alone here, then more with family.

Again, why he didn't move IB for a decent school - who knows. Clearly he / his wife didn't know to come to DCUM to talk about their lottery entries / where to live.

Whatever public records those refer to are out of date. He lives in Langdon in NE in a house he bought in June. That address is zoned to Langdon ES, McKinley MS, and Dunbar HS.

Curious, how much did he pay for his home?

$980K

Well, you can get a much nicer home for that amount in NE than WOTP, that's for sure--especially if you have 3 kids. It's also a more diverse neighborhood. I wonder if both of these influenced the thinking on this, and he assumed the school situation would work itself out (perhaps with assurances from those in DC?).

P.S. The house I just looked up that fits the parameters looks pretty nice, and also huge (6brs). Coming from CA, his family might be used to everything looking pretty new and updated (BTDT ), so they may have balked at the typical 3-4brs you can get for that price WOTP.

It looks like they lived in an apartment in Oakland, so maybe they wanted more space.

Still, it's a little hard to grasp the decision making behind buying a house all the way over in Langdon *after* your daughter gets a lottery spot at Duke Ellington.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Wait a second -- he is renting, and he didn't just effing MOVE into a Wilson zone when he belatedly discovered the truth about Ellington? What's wrong with this guy?

The public records may not be up to date.

He moved here at least 5 months ahead of the rest of the family. Would be normal to be in an apartment alone here, then more with family.

Again, why he didn't move IB for a decent school - who knows. Clearly he / his wife didn't know to come to DCUM to talk about their lottery entries / where to live.

Whatever public records those refer to are out of date. He lives in Langdon in NE in a house he bought in June. That address is zoned to Langdon ES, McKinley MS, and Dunbar HS.

Curious, how much did he pay for his home?

$980K

Well, you can get a much nicer home for that amount in NE than WOTP, that's for sure--especially if you have 3 kids. It's also a more diverse neighborhood. I wonder if both of these influenced the thinking on this, and he assumed the school situation would work itself out (perhaps with assurances from those in DC?).

P.S. The house I just looked up that fits the parameters looks pretty nice, and also huge (6brs). Coming from CA, his family might be used to everything looking pretty new and updated (BTDT ), so they may have balked at the typical 3-4brs you can get for that price WOTP.

It looks like they lived in an apartment in Oakland, so maybe they wanted more space.

Still, it's a little hard to grasp the decision making behind buying a house all the way over in Langdon *after* your daughter gets a lottery spot at Duke Ellington.

Child didn't get a lottery spot, have to interview.

[Anonymous]

He will have to resign. I do love how this sheds light on the limited quality HS choices in DC. Much more innovation needs to be applied towards middle and high schools. including more attractive and interesting specialized programs ie. the charter model.