Metro will cut all dedicated student buses for Jackson-Reed and Deal students

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain to me, slowly, what's going on with Crestwood?

The 2013 DCPS boundary study cut Crestwood out of the Deal/JR pathway, with those kids now going to MacFarland/Roosevelt. But in 2015, Bowser unilaterally announced "tweaks" to that plan. Crestwood kids would be grandfathered in to Deal/JR for seven years, which I assume means any Crestwood student who begins at a DCPS elementary for the 2022-23 school year or earlier has a right to Deal/JR.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/bowser-announces-tweaks-to-dc-school-boundary-plan/2015/02/27/b5f33f34-be2f-11e4-bdfa-b8e8f594e6ee_story.html

I assume that Crestwood kids who started at a DCPS from 2023-24 on will be heading to MacFarland/Roosevelt, but who knows.

The reason for this move is retail politics. This is a favor to Bowser’s original constituents. I for one think it’s not great, but it’s not even close to the top of the list of political stunts she has pulled with terrible consequences (OUC is #1 for me by a long way)

Oh it certainly was, just as the move to cut Crestwood out of the Deal/JR path was extreme pettiness toward a political opponent by the Vince Gray administration, which oversaw almost all of the 2013 boundary study before his loss to Bowser.

[Anonymous]

The city doesn't care I see many students waiting for busses in terrible weather riding with crazy people around the bus Was an incident when a girl was crying in the bus because a crazy man was bothering her and nobody help her.Shsme on transportation system .the circulator bus was a nice bus for tourists.The city is looking bad lately .weed shops next to Hardy what is going on .

[Anonymous]

Your grammar is what’s going on.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain to me, slowly, what's going on with Crestwood?

The 2013 DCPS boundary study cut Crestwood out of the Deal/JR pathway, with those kids now going to MacFarland/Roosevelt. But in 2015, Bowser unilaterally announced "tweaks" to that plan. Crestwood kids would be grandfathered in to Deal/JR for seven years, which I assume means any Crestwood student who begins at a DCPS elementary for the 2022-23 school year or earlier has a right to Deal/JR.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/bowser-announces-tweaks-to-dc-school-boundary-plan/2015/02/27/b5f33f34-be2f-11e4-bdfa-b8e8f594e6ee_story.html

I assume that Crestwood kids who started at a DCPS from 2023-24 on will be heading to MacFarland/Roosevelt, but who knows.

That’s not it at all. The grandfathering is related to the kid’s birth year/grade—not when they entered DCPS. As I understood it, students currently in 8th grade are the last group that have rights to Deal. Crestwood residents can only get to JR via Deal because of the feeder pattern—they can’t matriculate directly to JR without going from Deal. Crestwood residents only have by right access to Roosevelt, which is the neighborhood high school.

[Anonymous]

The immediate PP is explaining what was expected - however "dual middle school rights" aka the right to Deal for Crestwood (and a sliver east and north of there) will continue until after the boundaries are finally implemented and then will be figured out next.

Ask the DME. They'll tell you the details. But as of now, in the spring, enroll your Crestwood 5th grader in Deal without even lotterying and send her all the way through JR.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain to me, slowly, what's going on with Crestwood?

The 2013 DCPS boundary study cut Crestwood out of the Deal/JR pathway, with those kids now going to MacFarland/Roosevelt. But in 2015, Bowser unilaterally announced "tweaks" to that plan. Crestwood kids would be grandfathered in to Deal/JR for seven years, which I assume means any Crestwood student who begins at a DCPS elementary for the 2022-23 school year or earlier has a right to Deal/JR.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/bowser-announces-tweaks-to-dc-school-boundary-plan/2015/02/27/b5f33f34-be2f-11e4-bdfa-b8e8f594e6ee_story.html

I assume that Crestwood kids who started at a DCPS from 2023-24 on will be heading to MacFarland/Roosevelt, but who knows.

That’s not it at all. The grandfathering is related to the kid’s birth year/grade—not when they entered DCPS. As I understood it, students currently in 8th grade are the last group that have rights to Deal. Crestwood residents can only get to JR via Deal because of the feeder pattern—they can’t matriculate directly to JR without going from Deal. Crestwood residents only have by right access to Roosevelt, which is the neighborhood high school.

There is no way 8th graders are the last group with access to Deal. 6th and 7th graders at Deal will continue to matriculate. Elementary school feeders for Deal will continue to allow all enrolled to continue at Deal. Once you are in the feeder pattern you are in. No registrar is checking kids’ addresses.

[Anonymous]

Uh, do you know the Crestwood zoned elementary school? It’s John Lewis, not a Deal feeder.

[Anonymous]

Correct. They have a boundary right for middle school not a feeder right from elementary.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Correct. They have a boundary right for middle school not a feeder right from elementary.

Which is the whole thing the 2013 boundary realignment was supposed to standardize / eliminate across the city. (Access to a "boundary right" outside of the regular elementary feeds to middle feeds to high school pattern.)

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Uh, do you know the Crestwood zoned elementary school? It’s John Lewis, not a Deal feeder.

We live in Crestwood and our IB school is Powell, also not a Deal feeder. But I guess we will eventually be able to send our kid to Deal?

[Anonymous]

If the mayor ever feels pressure to implement that portion of the boundary study recommendations you’ll be unable to but UNTIL THEN…

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So?

Now JR and Deal students will have to fend for themselves like students at the other 249 public schools in DC.

(and private)

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Metro? Walk? Ride multiple buses?

As somebody who has never actually been to those two campuses, I just looked on Google Maps to see how hard they are to get to. There is a metro literally blocks away, as well as several bus lines. I had heard about this dedicated bus line and thought it was b/c the two schools were super inaccessible. If they are going to do a dedicated bus for those two schools, the city should provide buses from metro stations in Anacostia, Columbia Heights, Brookland, Deanwood, etc. to get those students to other schools. With the city budget the way it is, b/c they weren't able to provide for all of the students city, it makes sense they aren't going to provide any.

There is a metro right by Deal, but there isn't a metro stop in some of the neighborhoods that are in bounds for Deal.

If the routes have a lot of passengers, I don't see why they would be discontinued. Making middle schoolers travel through downtown doesn't seem efficient.

My kids have done this metro commute in reverse since 6th grade. It's fine.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Emphasizes the outsize catchment for this one school far into Upper Northwest.

Someday the politicians are just going to have to rip off the bandaid and suffer the consequences of making boundaries sane.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Emphasizes the outsize catchment for this one school far into Upper Northwest.

Someday the politicians are just going to have to rip off the bandaid and suffer the consequences of making boundaries sane.

It is such preferential treatment for that neighborhood that I’m surprised they continue to get away with it.