Bowser throws shade at Lafayette parents

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Anonymous wrote:The early poster who said the new school location didn’t make sense because Rock Creek Park has always been a racial, cultural and socio-economic boundary said that as though it was a good thing. Build that wall!

the line Lafayette dare not cross is the color line...

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Anonymous wrote:Easier for Bowser to throw shade than make tough decisions about DCPS. You know, govern.

Ok — so what exactly would have been the “tough” decision for her to have made with respect to this?

Re-draw some boundaries so schools are not overcrowded. Too politically difficult.

Is that what people in the Lafayette zone actually want? To shrink the geographic size of the zone and shift kids in it to other zones?

Of course they don't want that, because logic would dictate that white Lafayette kids get sent across the park in such a scenario, which would make the Lafayette Karens lose their minds.

So lazy. So misogynistic.

Hi Karen.

And proud of being lazy and misogynistic.

Good thing that term is going the way of others used to try to shut up women in years past. You’re on the wrong side, my friend.

I guarantee you were one of the people who fought the Military Road school the loudest and demanded that DC buy a building that wasn't for sale so that wealthy white people like yourself could continue to self segregate.

Enjoy your trailers and the loss of PK at Lafayette. You've certainly earned it

It sounds like you don’t go to Lafayette, but this issue of claimed overcrowding really bothers you. Why do you care?

Because it bothers me when wealthy, privileged white people are offered a perfectly reasonable solution to a problem, reject that solution out of hand because of nebulous, ever-changing reasons, demand a completely unreasonable alternative (buying a building that wasn't even for sale) and then whine like children when the city says no. Their kids and my kid will soon be going to the same school, and I don't want anything to do with them.

I can confirm that your kids can get through all years at Lafayette and you can mostly avoid these people. It's harder in the early years because of the social element for the kids. But you don't have to go to any auctions or participate in any adult social activities and your kids will be just fine. At least you figured it out before you got there.

Why would you send your kid there? There are better schools.

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Anonymous wrote:Janeese lobbied against Lafayette using the Military Rd School, as did the Ward 4 Education Alliance. Both thought the school should be used for students who lived near the school (aka not used by student across the park).

She lobbied against Lafayette losing the school because she knew it would play well with Lafayette voters. There was no other reason. If she had pushed Lafayette to move PK there, her next election would have become a lot more difficult.

She has publicly said she thinks Shepherd and Lafayette would be routed out of D-W, so I’m not sure that’s it.

Soooo ... she publicly said something that would ingratiate a new council member to her constituents? Saying otherwise would not be smart on her part. Not sure we should be ascribing courage to that comment. A whole lot of other DC residents think Lafayette and Shepherd perhaps should be routed out of Deal and Wilson.

Actually it was pretty gutsy to stand up to the Jack & Jill crowd in SP and to CC and tell them keeping D-W trajectory not her priority and not good for rest of Ward 4.

Bowser is a J&J mom from SP/CV 😂

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Anonymous wrote:I have no cat in this fight but why in the world would the mayor be so rude? It would be ludicrous to move Lafayette across the park. Was she going to provide busses to take the kids back and forth? DC kids walk to school which would no longer be possible. Bowser is so incredibly shitty.

There are kids within Lafayette's boundary who cannot walk to Lafayette.

Right. Not to mention the Hawthorne kids that drive to Lafayette in 10 minutes and Deal in 15 for their “IB” schools.

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Anonymous wrote:Janeese lobbied against Lafayette using the Military Rd School, as did the Ward 4 Education Alliance. Both thought the school should be used for students who lived near the school (aka not used by student across the park).

She lobbied against Lafayette losing the school because she knew it would play well with Lafayette voters. There was no other reason. If she had pushed Lafayette to move PK there, her next election would have become a lot more difficult.

She has publicly said she thinks Shepherd and Lafayette would be routed out of D-W, so I’m not sure that’s it.

Soooo ... she publicly said something that would ingratiate a new council member to her constituents? Saying otherwise would not be smart on her part. Not sure we should be ascribing courage to that comment. A whole lot of other DC residents think Lafayette and Shepherd perhaps should be routed out of Deal and Wilson.

Actually it was pretty gutsy to stand up to the Jack & Jill crowd in SP and to CC and tell them keeping D-W trajectory not her priority and not good for rest of Ward 4.

Bowser is a J&J mom from SP/CV 😂

They wouldn’t have let her into J&J back in the day - she grew up in RP, and her parents weren’t light enough/moneyed enough.

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Anonymous wrote:70% of Lafayette parents voted to reduce the size of their preK by half rather than take the chance that black and brown students at Brightwood would be allowed to join their preK and potentially gain feeder rights to Lafayette in the upper grades - hard to deny this kind of bigotry.

They didn’t want any OOB kids regardless of their color. Isn’t the lottery color blind? There isn’t enough room for the inbounds kids let alone OOB.

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Anonymous wrote:Easier for Bowser to throw shade than make tough decisions about DCPS. You know, govern.

Ok — so what exactly would have been the “tough” decision for her to have made with respect to this?

Re-draw some boundaries so schools are not overcrowded. Too politically difficult.

Is that what people in the Lafayette zone actually want? To shrink the geographic size of the zone and shift kids in it to other zones?

Of course they don't want that, because logic would dictate that white Lafayette kids get sent across the park in such a scenario, which would make the Lafayette Karens lose their minds.

So lazy. So misogynistic.

Hi Karen.

And proud of being lazy and misogynistic.

Good thing that term is going the way of others used to try to shut up women in years past. You’re on the wrong side, my friend.

I guarantee you were one of the people who fought the Military Road school the loudest and demanded that DC buy a building that wasn't for sale so that wealthy white people like yourself could continue to self segregate.

Enjoy your trailers and the loss of PK at Lafayette. You've certainly earned it

It sounds like you don’t go to Lafayette, but this issue of claimed overcrowding really bothers you. Why do you care?

Because it bothers me when wealthy, privileged white people are offered a perfectly reasonable solution to a problem, reject that solution out of hand because of nebulous, ever-changing reasons, demand a completely unreasonable alternative (buying a building that wasn't even for sale) and then whine like children when the city says no. Their kids and my kid will soon be going to the same school, and I don't want anything to do with them.

I can confirm that your kids can get through all years at Lafayette and you can mostly avoid these people. It's harder in the early years because of the social element for the kids. But you don't have to go to any auctions or participate in any adult social activities and your kids will be just fine. At least you figured it out before you got there.

Why would you send your kid there? There are better schools.

The school is good, once you're in and kids are happy it makes no sense to change. Some of us didn't realize when we started what the community it like but it's not a reason to completely uproot kids when the alternative is to not engage with the adults.

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Anonymous wrote:Easier for Bowser to throw shade than make tough decisions about DCPS. You know, govern.

Ok — so what exactly would have been the “tough” decision for her to have made with respect to this?

Re-draw some boundaries so schools are not overcrowded. Too politically difficult.

Is that what people in the Lafayette zone actually want? To shrink the geographic size of the zone and shift kids in it to other zones?

Of course they don't want that, because logic would dictate that white Lafayette kids get sent across the park in such a scenario, which would make the Lafayette Karens lose their minds.

So lazy. So misogynistic.

Hi Karen.

And proud of being lazy and misogynistic.

Good thing that term is going the way of others used to try to shut up women in years past. You’re on the wrong side, my friend.

I guarantee you were one of the people who fought the Military Road school the loudest and demanded that DC buy a building that wasn't for sale so that wealthy white people like yourself could continue to self segregate.

Enjoy your trailers and the loss of PK at Lafayette. You've certainly earned it

It sounds like you don’t go to Lafayette, but this issue of claimed overcrowding really bothers you. Why do you care?

Because it bothers me when wealthy, privileged white people are offered a perfectly reasonable solution to a problem, reject that solution out of hand because of nebulous, ever-changing reasons, demand a completely unreasonable alternative (buying a building that wasn't even for sale) and then whine like children when the city says no. Their kids and my kid will soon be going to the same school, and I don't want anything to do with them.

I can confirm that your kids can get through all years at Lafayette and you can mostly avoid these people. It's harder in the early years because of the social element for the kids. But you don't have to go to any auctions or participate in any adult social activities and your kids will be just fine. At least you figured it out before you got there.

Why would you send your kid there? There are better schools.

It’s a great school and if it’s your in-bound (and you’re not going private) it makes sense to use it. And for what it’s worth I’m an AA parent at the school and I think the amount of clandestine racism all of you are talking about is completely overstated. It is not racist to want your school PK in your actual community and to also be concerned that the largest elem school in DC could become even larger if they start letting OOB kids in for PK.

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Every once in awhile, terrible leaders get one question right. However, it doesn't make them any less terrible.

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Anonymous wrote:DC leadership doesn’t care about ward 3. Their focus is the lower income communities. Just look at recent policy and services. You may agree with this focus or you may not.

Lafayette isn't in Ward 3.

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Anonymous wrote:DC leadership doesn’t care about ward 3. Their focus is the lower income communities. Just look at recent policy and services. You may agree with this focus or you may not.

Lafayette isn't in Ward 3.

A good number of Lafayette families live in Ward 3, though.

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Anonymous wrote:DC leadership doesn’t care about ward 3. Their focus is the lower income communities. Just look at recent policy and services. You may agree with this focus or you may not.

Lafayette isn't in Ward 3.

So they should go to middle and high schools in their Ward?

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Anonymous wrote:70% of Lafayette parents voted to reduce the size of their preK by half rather than take the chance that black and brown students at Brightwood would be allowed to join their preK and potentially gain feeder rights to Lafayette in the upper grades - hard to deny this kind of bigotry.

They didn’t want any OOB kids regardless of their color. Isn’t the lottery color blind? There isn’t enough room for the inbounds kids let alone OOB.

Incorrect the proposal was to give them military road for PK, but they could not fill the six classrooms available with IB students only - and there was pressure to open Brightwood overflow to fill classes. IB Brightwood is mostly not white.

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Anonymous wrote:DC leadership doesn’t care about ward 3. Their focus is the lower income communities. Just look at recent policy and services. You may agree with this focus or you may not.

Lafayette isn't in Ward 3.

So they should go to middle and high schools in their Ward?

Yep.

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When you build a new school you don’t put it right next to the overcrowded one.