Boundary question

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:According to a neighbor who is an Eaton mom, the local school community in Cleveland Park is getting pretty engergized to fight any re-assignment to Hardy.

+1

Oh lord everybody is a freedom fighter now. It's gonna be a lot of sad faces.

[Anonymous]

I wonder if the first step in planning is to remove the portions of West, Powell, and Brightwood that are technically IB for Deal. These schools largely feed somewhere else, but still give rights to Deal to a close in sliver near the park. Politically, you could say that those schools had not been taken out, but you had still eased the pressure a little.

http://dcps.dc.gov/DCPS/Files/downloads/SCHOOLS/Boundary%20Maps%20-%202009/DCPS-Attendance-Zones-Elementary-Grades-September-2009.pdf

http://www.dc.gov/DCPS/Files/downloads/SCHOOLS/Boundary%20Maps%20-%202009/DCPS-Attendance-Zones-Middle-Schools-September-2009.pdf

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:According to a neighbor who is an Eaton mom, the local school community in Cleveland Park is getting pretty energized to fight any re-assignment to Hardy.

I'm sure that they are (though again, Hardy is a fine school). Someone will likely have to move though. Eaton already feeds both into Hardy and Deal. I was at a forum where David Catania (who doesn't get to decide, of course) flat out said to Ward 3 residents that it wasn't likely that Shepherd would be zoned out of Deal, but very likely that Eaton would.

What's interesting about this is that I think this means they would separate inboundary students from Cleveland Park, who could continue on to Deal because of Deal's boundaries (I can't see a reasonable way Cleveland Park could be sliced off) and cut off the 60+% out-of-boundary students for feeder rights. In these west-of-Park, high-OOB schools, I'm not surprised to see Deal feeder rights get cut off.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:According to a neighbor who is an Eaton mom, the local school community in Cleveland Park is getting pretty energized to fight any re-assignment to Hardy.

I'm sure that they are (though again, Hardy is a fine school). Someone will likely have to move though. Eaton already feeds both into Hardy and Deal. I was at a forum where David Catania (who doesn't get to decide, of course) flat out said to Ward 3 residents that it wasn't likely that Shepherd would be zoned out of Deal, but very likely that Eaton would.

I guess it is pretty likely that Catania will lose Cleveland Park then -- he needs to win Ward 3 bigtime to become mayor!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I wonder if the first step in planning is to remove the portions of West, Powell, and Brightwood that are technically IB for Deal. These schools largely feed somewhere else, but still give rights to Deal to a close in sliver near the park. Politically, you could say that those schools had not been taken out, but you had still eased the pressure a little.

http://dcps.dc.gov/DCPS/Files/downloads/SCHOOLS/Boundary%20Maps%20-%202009/DCPS-Attendance-Zones-Elementary-Grades-September-2009.pdf

http://www.dc.gov/DCPS/Files/downloads/SCHOOLS/Boundary%20Maps%20-%202009/DCPS-Attendance-Zones-Middle-Schools-September-2009.pdf

It sounds good, and I get the logic of it - but the amount of pressure it alleviates from Deal is pretty minimal. There just arent a lot of kids there I think.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I wonder if the first step in planning is to remove the portions of West, Powell, and Brightwood that are technically IB for Deal. These schools largely feed somewhere else, but still give rights to Deal to a close in sliver near the park. Politically, you could say that those schools had not been taken out, but you had still eased the pressure a little.

http://dcps.dc.gov/DCPS/Files/downloads/SCHOOLS/Boundary%20Maps%20-%202009/DCPS-Attendance-Zones-Elementary-Grades-September-2009.pdf

http://www.dc.gov/DCPS/Files/downloads/SCHOOLS/Boundary%20Maps%20-%202009/DCPS-Attendance-Zones-Middle-Schools-September-2009.pdf

It sounds good, and I get the logic of it - but the amount of pressure it alleviates from Deal is pretty minimal. There just arent a lot of kids there I think.

I agree that it isn't earth shattering, but it is a logical and relatively politically unobtrusive step. Though one that Councilmember Bowser could point to and say that Ward 4 took its "hit", so Shepherd and Lafayette need to stay in the feeder pattern.

[Anonymous]

As an EOTP parent of a soon-to-be middle schooler with ZERO good middle school options, it's depressing to see how entitled the WOTP parents are about their rights to attend a particular school and their rights to keep interlopers from undesirable neighborhoods out. Get the F out of our school and go to a substandard education campus because we deserve it more than you... so selfish.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:According to a neighbor who is an Eaton mom, the local school community in Cleveland Park is getting pretty energized to fight any re-assignment to Hardy.

I'm sure that they are (though again, Hardy is a fine school). Someone will likely have to move though. Eaton already feeds both into Hardy and Deal. I was at a forum where David Catania (who doesn't get to decide, of course) flat out said to Ward 3 residents that it wasn't likely that Shepherd would be zoned out of Deal, but very likely that Eaton would.

I guess it is pretty likely that Catania will lose Cleveland Park then -- he needs to win Ward 3 bigtime to become mayor!

I should clarify that he didn't say that was what he wanted to do. He said that was what was likely to happen because of the threat of court challenges.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As an EOTP parent of a soon-to-be middle schooler with ZERO good middle school options, it's depressing to see how entitled the WOTP parents are about their rights to attend a particular school and their rights to keep interlopers from undesirable neighborhoods out. Get the F out of our school and go to a substandard education campus because we deserve it more than you... so selfish.

it is a limited resource that a lot of people want.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:According to a neighbor who is an Eaton mom, the local school community in Cleveland Park is getting pretty energized to fight any re-assignment to Hardy.

I'm sure that they are (though again, Hardy is a fine school). Someone will likely have to move though. Eaton already feeds both into Hardy and Deal. I was at a forum where David Catania (who doesn't get to decide, of course) flat out said to Ward 3 residents that it wasn't likely that Shepherd would be zoned out of Deal, but very likely that Eaton would.

I guess it is pretty likely that Catania will lose Cleveland Park then -- he needs to win Ward 3 bigtime to become mayor!

I should clarify that he didn't say that was what he wanted to do. He said that was what was likely to happen because of the threat of court challenges.

but you can't go to court and say, but i LIVE closer?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As an EOTP parent of a soon-to-be middle schooler with ZERO good middle school options, it's depressing to see how entitled the WOTP parents are about their rights to attend a particular school and their rights to keep interlopers from undesirable neighborhoods out. Get the F out of our school and go to a substandard education campus because we deserve it more than you... so selfish.

As a WOTP parent I am sick of EOTP people demanding that my kids schelp across the city instead of attend the school down the street so that you can access what WOTP parents have built, instead of building it yourself.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:As an EOTP parent of a soon-to-be middle schooler with ZERO good middle school options, it's depressing to see how entitled the WOTP parents are about their rights to attend a particular school and their rights to keep interlopers from undesirable neighborhoods out. Get the F out of our school and go to a substandard education campus because we deserve it more than you... so selfish.

As a WOTP parent I am sick of EOTP people demanding that my kids schelp across the city instead of attend the school down the street so that you can access what WOTP parents have built, instead of building it yourself.

+1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:According to a neighbor who is an Eaton mom, the local school community in Cleveland Park is getting pretty engergized to fight any re-assignment to Hardy.

+1

Oh lord everybody is a freedom fighter now. It's gonna be a lot of sad faces.

So you are condescending. Why mock people advocating for their children? I imagine you might do the same. Hopefully.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:According to a neighbor who is an Eaton mom, the local school community in Cleveland Park is getting pretty energized to fight any re-assignment to Hardy.

I'm sure that they are (though again, Hardy is a fine school). Someone will likely have to move though. Eaton already feeds both into Hardy and Deal. I was at a forum where David Catania (who doesn't get to decide, of course) flat out said to Ward 3 residents that it wasn't likely that Shepherd would be zoned out of Deal, but very likely that Eaton would.

I guess it is pretty likely that Catania will lose Cleveland Park then -- he needs to win Ward 3 bigtime to become mayor!

I should clarify that he didn't say that was what he wanted to do. He said that was what was likely to happen because of the threat of court challenges.

but you can't go to court and say, but i LIVE closer?

Not sure about the proximity issue but you can definitely go to court and say that boundary changes have reduced diversity and contribute to racial isolation. The Department of Justice has guidance for school districts on this issue.
http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2011/December/11-ag-1569.html

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:As an EOTP parent of a soon-to-be middle schooler with ZERO good middle school options, it's depressing to see how entitled the WOTP parents are about their rights to attend a particular school and their rights to keep interlopers from undesirable neighborhoods out. Get the F out of our school and go to a substandard education campus because we deserve it more than you... so selfish.

+1. WotP parents should just get signs that say, "I got mine, f* you!!" At the focus groups, the hostility from Janney and Lafayette parents was overwhelming. It is sad (but not surprising) how little they think of the city as a whole.