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

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:What the hell is going on in the third slide in this deck?: https://docs.google.com/file/d/1CXfjtqR4vfTVRhW2iZBpLjP6q7seYXB8/edit?usp=docslist_api&filetype=mspresentation

Someone has cut out a Google Maps image of Stoddert onto Hardy Park, probably at a higher level to make it look bigger than it actually is. If you actually look at the real Stoddert in Google Maps, you notice that the school co-exists quite well next to a very large public park.

Bob Avery made that, he's trying to show that the site is too small for a school. I think the scale is fine, if you look at the roofs of the Old Hardy/Lab building and the old part of Stoddert they're the same size. What he omits is that Stoddert is co-located with a rec center. Which actually would be a really good idea at Hardy too.

"Bob" needs to take care to document when he creates a slide based on a photo. To me it looks like he has created a fiction.

[Anonymous]

I was noncommittal about the new elementary school until reading these FCCA shenanigans. I'm filling out the DCPS survey and saying "bring it on!"

[Anonymous]

FCCA
NEXT GENERAL MEETING
Virtual Meeting on Tuesday, April 27th from 7:00 to 8:30 p.m
Future Topics: DC Proposal to Build a New Elementary School on Hardy Park

https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88942753074#success

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote: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.

Here's the thing about their claim that those living nearby are the "most impacted": Depending on which plan DCPS adopts, it could affect everyone in the Wilson feeder pattern. That's over 10,000 students. Those 10,000 students have 15,000 parents. That's 25,000 people affected.

Tell me that having a school built a couple blocks from your house is a bigger impact than having your school assignment changed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote: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.

Here's the thing about their claim that those living nearby are the "most impacted": Depending on which plan DCPS adopts, it could affect everyone in the Wilson feeder pattern. That's over 10,000 students. Those 10,000 students have 15,000 parents. That's 25,000 people affected.

Tell me that having a school built a couple blocks from your house is a bigger impact than having your school assignment changed.

I have no doubt that these people think they are among those “most impacted” by the pandemic, global poverty, and the sinking of the Titantic, such is their relationship with reality.

They did everything they could to ensure that Old Hardy was not converted to a public school. Now they’re spreading disinformation in an attempt to stop the construction of a new public school.

Sound like classism and racism to you? It does to me.

[Anonymous]

FCCA is decrying the possible loss of Hardy field. Well, if they hadn't urged the mayor to give away a public resources to a monied private school, they wouldn't be losing it now. Besides, they can go to Palisades Park/Rec for green space. Shouldn't be a problem for them since they are fine with families with children having to schlep a mile plus to Key. Foxhall families deserve a walkable school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:FCCA is decrying the possible loss of Hardy field. Well, if they hadn't urged the mayor to give away a public resources to a monied private school, they wouldn't be losing it now. Besides, they can go to Palisades Park/Rec for green space. Shouldn't be a problem for them since they are fine with families with children having to schlep a mile plus to Key. Foxhall families deserve a walkable school.

Great point! I’m not sure this has as much to do with a park, though, as it does to do with not wanting to a desire not to have public school children in their neighborhood. At least, that’s what the record suggests.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FCCA is decrying the possible loss of Hardy field. Well, if they hadn't urged the mayor to give away a public resources to a monied private school, they wouldn't be losing it now. Besides, they can go to Palisades Park/Rec for green space. Shouldn't be a problem for them since they are fine with families with children having to schlep a mile plus to Key. Foxhall families deserve a walkable school.

Great point! I’m not sure this has as much to do with a park, though, as it does to do with not wanting to a desire not to have public school children in their neighborhood. At least, that’s what the record suggests.

There are *plenty* of public school children in that neighborhood. They all go to Key.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:FCCA is decrying the possible loss of Hardy field. Well, if they hadn't urged the mayor to give away a public resources to a monied private school, they wouldn't be losing it now. Besides, they can go to Palisades Park/Rec for green space. Shouldn't be a problem for them since they are fine with families with children having to schlep a mile plus to Key. Foxhall families deserve a walkable school.

Great point! I’m not sure this has as much to do with a park, though, as it does to do with not wanting to a desire not to have public school children in their neighborhood. At least, that’s what the record suggests.

There are *plenty* of public school children in that neighborhood. They all go to Key.

I think what the poster meant is that the Foxhall residents don’t want a public school in their backyard or that they don’t want to be confronted with the sight of public school children other than their own day-in day-out.

[Anonymous]

FCCA meeting tonight at 7: https://us02web.zoom.us/j/88942753074

[Anonymous]

How did the meeting go?

[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.

Our neighbor's kid goes to Lab on tax payers' dime. The kid is neither disabled nor poor. The dad knows how to get others to pay for his private tuition. Talking about white privilege.

[Anonymous]

I listened in on a good portion of the meeting. Honestly, I got the sense that the FCCA doesn't really understand how far along the dcps plans are. they are so focused on Hardy park that they aren't really giving airtime to the proposal that MacArthur WiLL BE either a middle school or high school. and of course there were people [rightly] griping about the Lab School giveaway of Old Hardy but I thought it was this exact community that expressed their approval of that deal. Is that incorrect?

[Anonymous]

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.

Our neighbor's kid goes to Lab on tax payers' dime. The kid is neither disabled nor poor. The dad knows how to get others to pay for his private tuition. Talking about white privilege.

How do you the child is not disabled?

[Anonymous]

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.

Our neighbor's kid goes to Lab on tax payers' dime. The kid is neither disabled nor poor. The dad knows how to get others to pay for his private tuition. Talking about white privilege.

I think this was discussed in an earlier thread. A number of kids attend LAB with DCPS funding. My understanding is that it’s a matter of the family finding the right lawyer to sue DCPS into paying. LAB does very well out of DC taxpayers.