Boundary Study Townhalls - first one starts now

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Anonymous wrote:Push Shepherd to Coolidge and the south part of the Coolidge catchment further south to the underenrolled schools, just like Hardy is being pushed south to MacA. There are plenty of open seats at existing schools.

Or instead of pushing anyone EOTP which the city has clearly stated they don't want, push another school in W3 to Hardy and MacArthur. Easier pull to swallow sending kids to equal performing schools don't you think? Unless you really are determined to make JR and Deal all white.

Push some EOTP students south and you’ll get a higher performing school. Unless you don’t want to go where there are so many OOB kids? Why is that?

I don't live in Shepherd Park but your logic makes zero sense and you know it. Shepherd's 40 kids will make zero difference at Coolidge (already at 100% capacity). So you'd need to send 250 kids from Coolidge to Brookland middle and Dunbar. Then you can send the 40 kids from Shepherd and the 200 kids from Lafayette. Yes. I agree, that could be tenable. But now you got an under-enrolled Deal and JR, same as Hardy and MacArthur. It would make more sense to take some kids from Janney and send them to Hardy and MacArthur.

Also Deal/JR to Hardy/MA, you're more likely to have buy-in. With moving kids from Wells/Coolidge to Brookland/Dunbar and then Deal/JR to Wells/Coolidge, you're pissing off and possibly losing 450 families vs 200 from Janney (or insert W3 neighborhood). Also W3 going to Hardy/MA is as close to even trade as you can get. The other scenario, everyone goes down in quality. Not to mention, you now have an all white Deal/JR.

I’m confused why you think there are only white kids enrolled at Deal feeders WOTP

Janney: 4% Black
Murch: 13% Black
Lafayette: 8% Black
Hearst: 17% Black
Deal: 26% Black
Hardy: 29% Black
DCPS: 57% Black, 22% Hispanic, 17% White

Don’t forget Bancroft: 4% Black.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:“I think we should send SES and Lafayette kids to the moon!” -PP, probably

SES and Lafayette deserve to be zoned for Ward 3. Money has it is privileges---and property values talk. SP is literally home to Jack...and...Jill. FFS. Make Chevy Chase cross the Rock Creek Park for ECE?What if our Teslas get scratched by construction debris? Woebegone Whitter with its rats? Tattered Takoma? We are so above it! Moreover, tons of SP and CC families don't even use the public schools (gag!), but we need to preserve our feeder pattern so that if we do sell our faux Tudors and bucolic bungalows to become digital nomads or what-evs, we can make as much money as possible. Porto has gotten pricey these days.

Whenever I read these posts, I can only imagine it is a Bancroft parent writing. Sadly we will never know the truth.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Push Shepherd to Coolidge and the south part of the Coolidge catchment further south to the underenrolled schools, just like Hardy is being pushed south to MacA. There are plenty of open seats at existing schools.

Or instead of pushing anyone EOTP which the city has clearly stated they don't want, push another school in W3 to Hardy and MacArthur. Easier pull to swallow sending kids to equal performing schools don't you think? Unless you really are determined to make JR and Deal all white.

Push some EOTP students south and you’ll get a higher performing school. Unless you don’t want to go where there are so many OOB kids? Why is that?

I don't live in Shepherd Park but your logic makes zero sense and you know it. Shepherd's 40 kids will make zero difference at Coolidge (already at 100% capacity). So you'd need to send 250 kids from Coolidge to Brookland middle and Dunbar. Then you can send the 40 kids from Shepherd and the 200 kids from Lafayette. Yes. I agree, that could be tenable. But now you got an under-enrolled Deal and JR, same as Hardy and MacArthur. It would make more sense to take some kids from Janney and send them to Hardy and MacArthur.

Also Deal/JR to Hardy/MA, you're more likely to have buy-in. With moving kids from Wells/Coolidge to Brookland/Dunbar and then Deal/JR to Wells/Coolidge, you're pissing off and possibly losing 450 families vs 200 from Janney (or insert W3 neighborhood). Also W3 going to Hardy/MA is as close to even trade as you can get. The other scenario, everyone goes down in quality. Not to mention, you now have an all white Deal/JR.

I’m confused why you think there are only white kids enrolled at Deal feeders WOTP

Janney: 4% Black
Murch: 13% Black
Lafayette: 8% Black
Hearst: 17% Black
Deal: 26% Black
Hardy: 29% Black
DCPS: 57% Black, 22% Hispanic, 17% White

So “not white” is now only Black?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:“I think we should send SES and Lafayette kids to the moon!” -PP, probably

SES and Lafayette deserve to be zoned for Ward 3. Money has it is privileges---and property values talk. SP is literally home to Jack...and...Jill. FFS. Make Chevy Chase cross the Rock Creek Park for ECE?What if our Teslas get scratched by construction debris? Woebegone Whitter with its rats? Tattered Takoma? We are so above it! Moreover, tons of SP and CC families don't even use the public schools (gag!), but we need to preserve our feeder pattern so that if we do sell our faux Tudors and bucolic bungalows to become digital nomads or what-evs, we can make as much money as possible. Porto has gotten pricey these days.

You're an ugly person. SP did not have a middle school 30 years ago when it was zoned for Deal. Wells is already packed. Stop misdirecting your ugliness. They should have better planned for a large middle school in North Ward 4 to accommodate Lafayette and Shepherd and Takoma. They did not. There is no other alternative other than to zone hundreds to Brookland to accommodate SP and CC at Wells. That doesn't make sense when Hardy and MA have space. You can use all your hate and ugliness towards SP and CC but it's misdirected. I'm sorry you're going to be zoned to Hardy. There are thousands in the city that would kill to be in your shoes. There's always GDS. Then again, you probably won't get in because you showed your ugliness to them when they took up too many neighborhood parking spots.

I am most sorry for your parents - I am sure that tried to raise you better than you have become (hateful, uber-entitled, teeming with contempt those you deem below your station in life). What is about the diversity of the rest of Ward 4 that brings out the torrential storms of your inner bile? Or scares you? I am not zoned for Hardy - I'm IB for Wells/Coolidge -and am tired off your poor behavior with its ready tinge of colorism, "let them eat cake"-ism, too bougie for Brightwood-ism, etc. DCPS can contract or expand any school, including Wells/Coolidge - and Shepherd Park and and least half of Lafayette can join us. Hell, the built a new high school in one summer.

I call BS on this post. You are not inbounds for Wells. You wouldn’t be this upset that SES and Lafayette were not zoned to Wells based on the contempt you have for them.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:“I think we should send SES and Lafayette kids to the moon!” -PP, probably

SES and Lafayette deserve to be zoned for Ward 3. Money has it is privileges---and property values talk. SP is literally home to Jack...and...Jill. FFS. Make Chevy Chase cross the Rock Creek Park for ECE?What if our Teslas get scratched by construction debris? Woebegone Whitter with its rats? Tattered Takoma? We are so above it! Moreover, tons of SP and CC families don't even use the public schools (gag!), but we need to preserve our feeder pattern so that if we do sell our faux Tudors and bucolic bungalows to become digital nomads or what-evs, we can make as much money as possible. Porto has gotten pricey these days.

You're an ugly person. SP did not have a middle school 30 years ago when it was zoned for Deal. Wells is already packed. Stop misdirecting your ugliness. They should have better planned for a large middle school in North Ward 4 to accommodate Lafayette and Shepherd and Takoma. They did not. There is no other alternative other than to zone hundreds to Brookland to accommodate SP and CC at Wells. That doesn't make sense when Hardy and MA have space. You can use all your hate and ugliness towards SP and CC but it's misdirected. I'm sorry you're going to be zoned to Hardy. There are thousands in the city that would kill to be in your shoes. There's always GDS. Then again, you probably won't get in because you showed your ugliness to them when they took up too many neighborhood parking spots.

I am most sorry for your parents - I am sure that tried to raise you better than you have become (hateful, uber-entitled, teeming with contempt those you deem below your station in life). What is about the diversity of the rest of Ward 4 that brings out the torrential storms of your inner bile? Or scares you? I am not zoned for Hardy - I'm IB for Wells/Coolidge -and am tired off your poor behavior with its ready tinge of colorism, "let them eat cake"-ism, too bougie for Brightwood-ism, etc. DCPS can contract or expand any school, including Wells/Coolidge - and Shepherd Park and and least half of Lafayette can join us. Hell, the built a new high school in one summer.

I call BS on this post. You are not inbounds for Wells. You wouldn’t be this upset that SES and Lafayette were not zoned to Wells based on the contempt you have for them.

This person has been posting similar for a long time now. Their theory is that rerouting Shepherd and Lafayette will improve his/her kid’s cohort. Which is kind of a weird take given the contempt he/she spews for shepherd and Lafayette families.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:“I think we should send SES and Lafayette kids to the moon!” -PP, probably

SES and Lafayette deserve to be zoned for Ward 3. Money has it is privileges---and property values talk. SP is literally home to Jack...and...Jill. FFS. Make Chevy Chase cross the Rock Creek Park for ECE?What if our Teslas get scratched by construction debris? Woebegone Whitter with its rats? Tattered Takoma? We are so above it! Moreover, tons of SP and CC families don't even use the public schools (gag!), but we need to preserve our feeder pattern so that if we do sell our faux Tudors and bucolic bungalows to become digital nomads or what-evs, we can make as much money as possible. Porto has gotten pricey these days.

You're an ugly person. SP did not have a middle school 30 years ago when it was zoned for Deal. Wells is already packed. Stop misdirecting your ugliness. They should have better planned for a large middle school in North Ward 4 to accommodate Lafayette and Shepherd and Takoma. They did not. There is no other alternative other than to zone hundreds to Brookland to accommodate SP and CC at Wells. That doesn't make sense when Hardy and MA have space. You can use all your hate and ugliness towards SP and CC but it's misdirected. I'm sorry you're going to be zoned to Hardy. There are thousands in the city that would kill to be in your shoes. There's always GDS. Then again, you probably won't get in because you showed your ugliness to them when they took up too many neighborhood parking spots.

I am most sorry for your parents - I am sure that tried to raise you better than you have become (hateful, uber-entitled, teeming with contempt those you deem below your station in life). What is about the diversity of the rest of Ward 4 that brings out the torrential storms of your inner bile? Or scares you? I am not zoned for Hardy - I'm IB for Wells/Coolidge -and am tired off your poor behavior with its ready tinge of colorism, "let them eat cake"-ism, too bougie for Brightwood-ism, etc. DCPS can contract or expand any school, including Wells/Coolidge - and Shepherd Park and and least half of Lafayette can join us. Hell, the built a new high school in one summer.

I call BS on this post. You are not inbounds for Wells. You wouldn’t be this upset that SES and Lafayette were not zoned to Wells based on the contempt you have for them.

Too funny. Have lived in Ward 4, IB for Whittier for 15+ years. As you should know, most of Ward 4 has disgust for the BEHAVIOR of CC parents, and more than a few SES parents, particularly lately. I understand that hate and contempt are your bread and butter for the hoi polloi in the rest of the city, but I don't think that other Ward 4 parents hate anyone, we just are calling you on your bad behavior/poor arguments. Come help us build a strong cohort of MC in students in Ward 4 schools, because Lafayette and SES literally breed churn by having the enshrined privilege feeder path out-of-ward.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:“I think we should send SES and Lafayette kids to the moon!” -PP, probably

SES and Lafayette deserve to be zoned for Ward 3. Money has it is privileges---and property values talk. SP is literally home to Jack...and...Jill. FFS. Make Chevy Chase cross the Rock Creek Park for ECE?What if our Teslas get scratched by construction debris? Woebegone Whitter with its rats? Tattered Takoma? We are so above it! Moreover, tons of SP and CC families don't even use the public schools (gag!), but we need to preserve our feeder pattern so that if we do sell our faux Tudors and bucolic bungalows to become digital nomads or what-evs, we can make as much money as possible. Porto has gotten pricey these days.

You're an ugly person. SP did not have a middle school 30 years ago when it was zoned for Deal. Wells is already packed. Stop misdirecting your ugliness. They should have better planned for a large middle school in North Ward 4 to accommodate Lafayette and Shepherd and Takoma. They did not. There is no other alternative other than to zone hundreds to Brookland to accommodate SP and CC at Wells. That doesn't make sense when Hardy and MA have space. You can use all your hate and ugliness towards SP and CC but it's misdirected. I'm sorry you're going to be zoned to Hardy. There are thousands in the city that would kill to be in your shoes. There's always GDS. Then again, you probably won't get in because you showed your ugliness to them when they took up too many neighborhood parking spots.

I am most sorry for your parents - I am sure that tried to raise you better than you have become (hateful, uber-entitled, teeming with contempt those you deem below your station in life). What is about the diversity of the rest of Ward 4 that brings out the torrential storms of your inner bile? Or scares you? I am not zoned for Hardy - I'm IB for Wells/Coolidge -and am tired off your poor behavior with its ready tinge of colorism, "let them eat cake"-ism, too bougie for Brightwood-ism, etc. DCPS can contract or expand any school, including Wells/Coolidge - and Shepherd Park and and least half of Lafayette can join us. Hell, the built a new high school in one summer.

I call BS on this post. You are not inbounds for Wells. You wouldn’t be this upset that SES and Lafayette were not zoned to Wells based on the contempt you have for them.

Too funny. Have lived in Ward 4, IB for Whittier for 15+ years. As you should know, most of Ward 4 has disgust for the BEHAVIOR of CC parents, and more than a few SES parents, particularly lately. I understand that hate and contempt are your bread and butter for the hoi polloi in the rest of the city, but I don't think that other Ward 4 parents hate anyone, we just are calling you on your bad behavior/poor arguments. Come help us build a strong cohort of MC in students in Ward 4 schools, because Lafayette and SES literally breed churn by having the enshrined privilege feeder path out-of-ward.

Come on, I live IB for Wells/Coolidge and it's not rocket science to me why Shepherd & Lafayette parents want to preserve their feeder pattern. If I lived in those neighborhoods, I'd want to also. Maybe our focus should be on the terrible IB participation rate of our boundary schools? There's already a strong cohort here, it's just not using the schools.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:“I think we should send SES and Lafayette kids to the moon!” -PP, probably

SES and Lafayette deserve to be zoned for Ward 3. Money has it is privileges---and property values talk. SP is literally home to Jack...and...Jill. FFS. Make Chevy Chase cross the Rock Creek Park for ECE?What if our Teslas get scratched by construction debris? Woebegone Whitter with its rats? Tattered Takoma? We are so above it! Moreover, tons of SP and CC families don't even use the public schools (gag!), but we need to preserve our feeder pattern so that if we do sell our faux Tudors and bucolic bungalows to become digital nomads or what-evs, we can make as much money as possible. Porto has gotten pricey these days.

You're an ugly person. SP did not have a middle school 30 years ago when it was zoned for Deal. Wells is already packed. Stop misdirecting your ugliness. They should have better planned for a large middle school in North Ward 4 to accommodate Lafayette and Shepherd and Takoma. They did not. There is no other alternative other than to zone hundreds to Brookland to accommodate SP and CC at Wells. That doesn't make sense when Hardy and MA have space. You can use all your hate and ugliness towards SP and CC but it's misdirected. I'm sorry you're going to be zoned to Hardy. There are thousands in the city that would kill to be in your shoes. There's always GDS. Then again, you probably won't get in because you showed your ugliness to them when they took up too many neighborhood parking spots.

I am most sorry for your parents - I am sure that tried to raise you better than you have become (hateful, uber-entitled, teeming with contempt those you deem below your station in life). What is about the diversity of the rest of Ward 4 that brings out the torrential storms of your inner bile? Or scares you? I am not zoned for Hardy - I'm IB for Wells/Coolidge -and am tired off your poor behavior with its ready tinge of colorism, "let them eat cake"-ism, too bougie for Brightwood-ism, etc. DCPS can contract or expand any school, including Wells/Coolidge - and Shepherd Park and and least half of Lafayette can join us. Hell, the built a new high school in one summer.

I call BS on this post. You are not inbounds for Wells. You wouldn’t be this upset that SES and Lafayette were not zoned to Wells based on the contempt you have for them.

Too funny. Have lived in Ward 4, IB for Whittier for 15+ years. As you should know, most of Ward 4 has disgust for the BEHAVIOR of CC parents, and more than a few SES parents, particularly lately. I understand that hate and contempt are your bread and butter for the hoi polloi in the rest of the city, but I don't think that other Ward 4 parents hate anyone, we just are calling you on your bad behavior/poor arguments. Come help us build a strong cohort of MC in students in Ward 4 schools, because Lafayette and SES literally breed churn by having the enshrined privilege feeder path out-of-ward.

Come on, I live IB for Wells/Coolidge and it's not rocket science to me why Shepherd & Lafayette parents want to preserve their feeder pattern. If I lived in those neighborhoods, I'd want to also. Maybe our focus should be on the terrible IB participation rate of our boundary schools? There's already a strong cohort here, it's just not using the schools.

Ummm. Wells has a 60% boundary participation rate. Coolidge won't get better unless it has a strong cohort from the entire Ward. I agree, there is a strong cohort in Ward 4 not using Ward 4 schools, and some of those kids live in Takoma et al, but a lot of them live in North Portal Estates, Chevy Chase, Colonial Village, and Shepherd Park. No one who has privilege wants to give it up - humans are self-maximizers with strong free-riding tendencies, but the out-of-ward privilege is hurting the rest of the kids in the Ward.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:“I think we should send SES and Lafayette kids to the moon!” -PP, probably

SES and Lafayette deserve to be zoned for Ward 3. Money has it is privileges---and property values talk. SP is literally home to Jack...and...Jill. FFS. Make Chevy Chase cross the Rock Creek Park for ECE?What if our Teslas get scratched by construction debris? Woebegone Whitter with its rats? Tattered Takoma? We are so above it! Moreover, tons of SP and CC families don't even use the public schools (gag!), but we need to preserve our feeder pattern so that if we do sell our faux Tudors and bucolic bungalows to become digital nomads or what-evs, we can make as much money as possible. Porto has gotten pricey these days.

You're an ugly person. SP did not have a middle school 30 years ago when it was zoned for Deal. Wells is already packed. Stop misdirecting your ugliness. They should have better planned for a large middle school in North Ward 4 to accommodate Lafayette and Shepherd and Takoma. They did not. There is no other alternative other than to zone hundreds to Brookland to accommodate SP and CC at Wells. That doesn't make sense when Hardy and MA have space. You can use all your hate and ugliness towards SP and CC but it's misdirected. I'm sorry you're going to be zoned to Hardy. There are thousands in the city that would kill to be in your shoes. There's always GDS. Then again, you probably won't get in because you showed your ugliness to them when they took up too many neighborhood parking spots.

I am most sorry for your parents - I am sure that tried to raise you better than you have become (hateful, uber-entitled, teeming with contempt those you deem below your station in life). What is about the diversity of the rest of Ward 4 that brings out the torrential storms of your inner bile? Or scares you? I am not zoned for Hardy - I'm IB for Wells/Coolidge -and am tired off your poor behavior with its ready tinge of colorism, "let them eat cake"-ism, too bougie for Brightwood-ism, etc. DCPS can contract or expand any school, including Wells/Coolidge - and Shepherd Park and and least half of Lafayette can join us. Hell, the built a new high school in one summer.

I call BS on this post. You are not inbounds for Wells. You wouldn’t be this upset that SES and Lafayette were not zoned to Wells based on the contempt you have for them.

Too funny. Have lived in Ward 4, IB for Whittier for 15+ years. As you should know, most of Ward 4 has disgust for the BEHAVIOR of CC parents, and more than a few SES parents, particularly lately. I understand that hate and contempt are your bread and butter for the hoi polloi in the rest of the city, but I don't think that other Ward 4 parents hate anyone, we just are calling you on your bad behavior/poor arguments. Come help us build a strong cohort of MC in students in Ward 4 schools, because Lafayette and SES literally breed churn by having the enshrined privilege feeder path out-of-ward.

Come on, I live IB for Wells/Coolidge and it's not rocket science to me why Shepherd & Lafayette parents want to preserve their feeder pattern. If I lived in those neighborhoods, I'd want to also. Maybe our focus should be on the terrible IB participation rate of our boundary schools? There's already a strong cohort here, it's just not using the schools.

Ummm. Wells has a 60% boundary participation rate. Coolidge won't get better unless it has a strong cohort from the entire Ward. I agree, there is a strong cohort in Ward 4 not using Ward 4 schools, and some of those kids live in Takoma et al, but a lot of them live in North Portal Estates, Chevy Chase, Colonial Village, and Shepherd Park. No one who has privilege wants to give it up - humans are self-maximizers with strong free-riding tendencies, but the out-of-ward privilege is hurting the rest of the kids in the Ward.

You're focusing on the wrong numbers for Wells. Look here: https://dme.dc.gov/node/1665401. Over 60% of its students live in-boundary but only 27% of grade-specific students living in-boundary attend. Its feeders have similarly low numbers. Compare to Deal and Hardy, for example, where that percentage is in the 70s.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:“I think we should send SES and Lafayette kids to the moon!” -PP, probably

SES and Lafayette deserve to be zoned for Ward 3. Money has it is privileges---and property values talk. SP is literally home to Jack...and...Jill. FFS. Make Chevy Chase cross the Rock Creek Park for ECE?What if our Teslas get scratched by construction debris? Woebegone Whitter with its rats? Tattered Takoma? We are so above it! Moreover, tons of SP and CC families don't even use the public schools (gag!), but we need to preserve our feeder pattern so that if we do sell our faux Tudors and bucolic bungalows to become digital nomads or what-evs, we can make as much money as possible. Porto has gotten pricey these days.

You're an ugly person. SP did not have a middle school 30 years ago when it was zoned for Deal. Wells is already packed. Stop misdirecting your ugliness. They should have better planned for a large middle school in North Ward 4 to accommodate Lafayette and Shepherd and Takoma. They did not. There is no other alternative other than to zone hundreds to Brookland to accommodate SP and CC at Wells. That doesn't make sense when Hardy and MA have space. You can use all your hate and ugliness towards SP and CC but it's misdirected. I'm sorry you're going to be zoned to Hardy. There are thousands in the city that would kill to be in your shoes. There's always GDS. Then again, you probably won't get in because you showed your ugliness to them when they took up too many neighborhood parking spots.

I am most sorry for your parents - I am sure that tried to raise you better than you have become (hateful, uber-entitled, teeming with contempt those you deem below your station in life). What is about the diversity of the rest of Ward 4 that brings out the torrential storms of your inner bile? Or scares you? I am not zoned for Hardy - I'm IB for Wells/Coolidge -and am tired off your poor behavior with its ready tinge of colorism, "let them eat cake"-ism, too bougie for Brightwood-ism, etc. DCPS can contract or expand any school, including Wells/Coolidge - and Shepherd Park and and least half of Lafayette can join us. Hell, the built a new high school in one summer.

I call BS on this post. You are not inbounds for Wells. You wouldn’t be this upset that SES and Lafayette were not zoned to Wells based on the contempt you have for them.

Too funny. Have lived in Ward 4, IB for Whittier for 15+ years. As you should know, most of Ward 4 has disgust for the BEHAVIOR of CC parents, and more than a few SES parents, particularly lately. I understand that hate and contempt are your bread and butter for the hoi polloi in the rest of the city, but I don't think that other Ward 4 parents hate anyone, we just are calling you on your bad behavior/poor arguments. Come help us build a strong cohort of MC in students in Ward 4 schools, because Lafayette and SES literally breed churn by having the enshrined privilege feeder path out-of-ward.

Come on, I live IB for Wells/Coolidge and it's not rocket science to me why Shepherd & Lafayette parents want to preserve their feeder pattern. If I lived in those neighborhoods, I'd want to also. Maybe our focus should be on the terrible IB participation rate of our boundary schools? There's already a strong cohort here, it's just not using the schools.

Ummm. Wells has a 60% boundary participation rate. Coolidge won't get better unless it has a strong cohort from the entire Ward. I agree, there is a strong cohort in Ward 4 not using Ward 4 schools, and some of those kids live in Takoma et al, but a lot of them live in North Portal Estates, Chevy Chase, Colonial Village, and Shepherd Park. No one who has privilege wants to give it up - humans are self-maximizers with strong free-riding tendencies, but the out-of-ward privilege is hurting the rest of the kids in the Ward.

You're focusing on the wrong numbers for Wells. Look here: https://dme.dc.gov/node/1665401. Over 60% of its students live in-boundary but only 27% of grade-specific students living in-boundary attend. Its feeders have similarly low numbers. Compare to Deal and Hardy, for example, where that percentage is in the 70s.

What does grade-specific mean in this context?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:“I think we should send SES and Lafayette kids to the moon!” -PP, probably

SES and Lafayette deserve to be zoned for Ward 3. Money has it is privileges---and property values talk. SP is literally home to Jack...and...Jill. FFS. Make Chevy Chase cross the Rock Creek Park for ECE?What if our Teslas get scratched by construction debris? Woebegone Whitter with its rats? Tattered Takoma? We are so above it! Moreover, tons of SP and CC families don't even use the public schools (gag!), but we need to preserve our feeder pattern so that if we do sell our faux Tudors and bucolic bungalows to become digital nomads or what-evs, we can make as much money as possible. Porto has gotten pricey these days.

You're an ugly person. SP did not have a middle school 30 years ago when it was zoned for Deal. Wells is already packed. Stop misdirecting your ugliness. They should have better planned for a large middle school in North Ward 4 to accommodate Lafayette and Shepherd and Takoma. They did not. There is no other alternative other than to zone hundreds to Brookland to accommodate SP and CC at Wells. That doesn't make sense when Hardy and MA have space. You can use all your hate and ugliness towards SP and CC but it's misdirected. I'm sorry you're going to be zoned to Hardy. There are thousands in the city that would kill to be in your shoes. There's always GDS. Then again, you probably won't get in because you showed your ugliness to them when they took up too many neighborhood parking spots.

I am most sorry for your parents - I am sure that tried to raise you better than you have become (hateful, uber-entitled, teeming with contempt those you deem below your station in life). What is about the diversity of the rest of Ward 4 that brings out the torrential storms of your inner bile? Or scares you? I am not zoned for Hardy - I'm IB for Wells/Coolidge -and am tired off your poor behavior with its ready tinge of colorism, "let them eat cake"-ism, too bougie for Brightwood-ism, etc. DCPS can contract or expand any school, including Wells/Coolidge - and Shepherd Park and and least half of Lafayette can join us. Hell, the built a new high school in one summer.

I call BS on this post. You are not inbounds for Wells. You wouldn’t be this upset that SES and Lafayette were not zoned to Wells based on the contempt you have for them.

Too funny. Have lived in Ward 4, IB for Whittier for 15+ years. As you should know, most of Ward 4 has disgust for the BEHAVIOR of CC parents, and more than a few SES parents, particularly lately. I understand that hate and contempt are your bread and butter for the hoi polloi in the rest of the city, but I don't think that other Ward 4 parents hate anyone, we just are calling you on your bad behavior/poor arguments. Come help us build a strong cohort of MC in students in Ward 4 schools, because Lafayette and SES literally breed churn by having the enshrined privilege feeder path out-of-ward.

Come on, I live IB for Wells/Coolidge and it's not rocket science to me why Shepherd & Lafayette parents want to preserve their feeder pattern. If I lived in those neighborhoods, I'd want to also. Maybe our focus should be on the terrible IB participation rate of our boundary schools? There's already a strong cohort here, it's just not using the schools.

Ummm. Wells has a 60% boundary participation rate. Coolidge won't get better unless it has a strong cohort from the entire Ward. I agree, there is a strong cohort in Ward 4 not using Ward 4 schools, and some of those kids live in Takoma et al, but a lot of them live in North Portal Estates, Chevy Chase, Colonial Village, and Shepherd Park. No one who has privilege wants to give it up - humans are self-maximizers with strong free-riding tendencies, but the out-of-ward privilege is hurting the rest of the kids in the Ward.

You're focusing on the wrong numbers for Wells. Look here: https://dme.dc.gov/node/1665401. Over 60% of its students live in-boundary but only 27% of grade-specific students living in-boundary attend. Its feeders have similarly low numbers. Compare to Deal and Hardy, for example, where that percentage is in the 70s.

What does grade-specific mean in this context?

Kids in the grade that the school serves

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Anonymous wrote:“I think we should send SES and Lafayette kids to the moon!” -PP, probably

SES and Lafayette deserve to be zoned for Ward 3. Money has it is privileges---and property values talk. SP is literally home to Jack...and...Jill. FFS. Make Chevy Chase cross the Rock Creek Park for ECE?What if our Teslas get scratched by construction debris? Woebegone Whitter with its rats? Tattered Takoma? We are so above it! Moreover, tons of SP and CC families don't even use the public schools (gag!), but we need to preserve our feeder pattern so that if we do sell our faux Tudors and bucolic bungalows to become digital nomads or what-evs, we can make as much money as possible. Porto has gotten pricey these days.

You're an ugly person. SP did not have a middle school 30 years ago when it was zoned for Deal. Wells is already packed. Stop misdirecting your ugliness. They should have better planned for a large middle school in North Ward 4 to accommodate Lafayette and Shepherd and Takoma. They did not. There is no other alternative other than to zone hundreds to Brookland to accommodate SP and CC at Wells. That doesn't make sense when Hardy and MA have space. You can use all your hate and ugliness towards SP and CC but it's misdirected. I'm sorry you're going to be zoned to Hardy. There are thousands in the city that would kill to be in your shoes. There's always GDS. Then again, you probably won't get in because you showed your ugliness to them when they took up too many neighborhood parking spots.

I am most sorry for your parents - I am sure that tried to raise you better than you have become (hateful, uber-entitled, teeming with contempt those you deem below your station in life). What is about the diversity of the rest of Ward 4 that brings out the torrential storms of your inner bile? Or scares you? I am not zoned for Hardy - I'm IB for Wells/Coolidge -and am tired off your poor behavior with its ready tinge of colorism, "let them eat cake"-ism, too bougie for Brightwood-ism, etc. DCPS can contract or expand any school, including Wells/Coolidge - and Shepherd Park and and least half of Lafayette can join us. Hell, the built a new high school in one summer.

I call BS on this post. You are not inbounds for Wells. You wouldn’t be this upset that SES and Lafayette were not zoned to Wells based on the contempt you have for them.

Too funny. Have lived in Ward 4, IB for Whittier for 15+ years. As you should know, most of Ward 4 has disgust for the BEHAVIOR of CC parents, and more than a few SES parents, particularly lately. I understand that hate and contempt are your bread and butter for the hoi polloi in the rest of the city, but I don't think that other Ward 4 parents hate anyone, we just are calling you on your bad behavior/poor arguments. Come help us build a strong cohort of MC in students in Ward 4 schools, because Lafayette and SES literally breed churn by having the enshrined privilege feeder path out-of-ward.

Come on, I live IB for Wells/Coolidge and it's not rocket science to me why Shepherd & Lafayette parents want to preserve their feeder pattern. If I lived in those neighborhoods, I'd want to also. Maybe our focus should be on the terrible IB participation rate of our boundary schools? There's already a strong cohort here, it's just not using the schools.

Ummm. Wells has a 60% boundary participation rate. Coolidge won't get better unless it has a strong cohort from the entire Ward. I agree, there is a strong cohort in Ward 4 not using Ward 4 schools, and some of those kids live in Takoma et al, but a lot of them live in North Portal Estates, Chevy Chase, Colonial Village, and Shepherd Park. No one who has privilege wants to give it up - humans are self-maximizers with strong free-riding tendencies, but the out-of-ward privilege is hurting the rest of the kids in the Ward.

Hello friend. I feel less alone here now!

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All this Ward talk. I didn’t know DCPS was supposed to align its feeder patterns by wards. Seems like it should be by proximity, and that may or may not fall along arbitrary ward lines. But if staying in ward is the desired policy, shouldn’t Bancroft then be compelled to stay in their ward. They are ward 1, right? Also by proximity it would make sense not to cross the park to get to school.

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I wish DCPS had planned for a new middle or high school on the Walter Reed campus. Maybe there’s a reason they didn’t consider, but all their fixes seem so short sighted.

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Anonymous wrote:All this Ward talk. I didn’t know DCPS was supposed to align its feeder patterns by wards. Seems like it should be by proximity, and that may or may not fall along arbitrary ward lines. But if staying in ward is the desired policy, shouldn’t Bancroft then be compelled to stay in their ward. They are ward 1, right? Also by proximity it would make sense not to cross the park to get to school.

Right, they should be feeding into Cardozo, Columbia Heights, etc.