This would require an admission by Bowser that her Old Hardy giveaway wasn't on the level (which it certainly wasn't). Never happening. |
There are not enough students in this area to justify it. |
During the CWG process, Bob Avery said he didn't know a single family who sent their kids to DCPS. Yet the DCPS representatives said there were enough existing DCPS elementary school students living within 1.1 miles of the Foxhall site to fill the school. These seemingly contradictory statements can both be true, it just says a lot about the circles that the FCCA leadership travels in. So PP, even though you personally may not know any families with children, they do live in the area around the school, and they do send their kids to DCPS. And what the DCPS analysis left out is that schools are a draw, families will flock to the neighborhood if it has a high-quality school within walking distance. |
It’s a domino effect. Shuffle all the kids leftward a bit. In any event, which neighborhood elementary schools are accessible by people throughout the city? It’s a pretty silly standard. |
How many kids take readily available metro and metrobus to Wilson and Deal every day? |
Three in four kids in DC don't attend their neighborhood public school, and almost all of them attend school to the west of where they live. But they don't go far in general. So there's definitely a domino effect. |
I missed this until now, but Chancellor Ferebee's March letter is explicit that Stoddert's boundaries will be redrawn to supply the Foxhall school: "The new school will be an elementary school serving PK4-5th grade. This will require drawing a new boundary that re-assigns portions of the Key, Mann and Stoddert boundaries..." https://fruminforward3.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Foxhall_CIP-Letter_March-2022.pdf To the extent this discussion became about whether the proposed boundaries were 'an example' or not, and the behavior of the CWG, that is now moot. The boundaries are going to split Glover Park (there's really no part of Stoddert that makes sense). I welcome the promised support of the Foxhall and Palisades community members who will argue against this change. I hope the members of the CWG who posted earlier will also make their views publicly known. |
That seems very true for public schools but it might not apply to charters. I wonder whether data would confirm my sense that charter students of poorer families travel west and UMC charter students travel east, and they go to charter schools together, for a time. |
You present a false dichotomy. Some of Stoddert should be re-assigned to Mann. Some of Mann to Key and Foxhall. A lot of Key to Foxhall. This is entirely consistent with Ferebee’s comment. |
There are no charter west of Rock Creek Park. So if you live there and want to go to a charter, you have to go east. |
Annoyingly for me, you're right. Both our interpretations are consistent. Back to the argument, then. |
Sure, and there are more charters in NE than EOTP NW, so EOTP NW families also generally go east for charters. |
Wilson and Deal are not neighborhood elementary schools. |
Somewhere there is a map that shows the pattern. It’s from the redistricting process so it’s a few years old now. It’s interesting to look at though. Most people are really not traveling that far from their homes to school. I believe the average was under 2 miles. |
Thank you for acknowledging this. You’ve met my bay for further conversation. I am the PP. I was on the CWG. DCPS knows/understands exactly what I wrote above. (This is also what makes that draft, example silly map they produced for discussion so infuriating. Total unforced error.) The Stoddert rep also knew this but refused to embrace anything but the sky is falling. |