New homeless shelters and impacted schools

[Anonymous]

So the new Ward 6 site is IB for Van Ness? Wow.

[Anonymous]

Why wow?

[Anonymous]

Agree, why wow? Now you give a shit about homeless shelter services?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:40% of the children at DC General are under age 2 (as in, age 0 or 1). When you consider the kids who are 2, or 3 but missed the deadline, most kids won't be going to any DCPS or charter school.

Of those that will, they'll be all different ages. Some will want to stay at their current school, some will already be enrolled at the IB school where their shelter is located, and some will enroll as new IB students at the school. But no grade or school is going to get a large influx of homeless children. And if families who enrolled at their new IB school move out of shelter, their kids can finish the school year there, and return at principal's discretion (same as kids who move OOB for other reasons).

None of it sounds unreasonable or too daunting to me. Most schools already have a number of homeless children. The ones that don't certainly have the fundraising and volunteer capacity to provide adequate services to the few kids who would attend.

That's a great stat....but 48% of the kids at DC general are elementary school aged. This will have a very large impact on the elementary schools....

You can't be this stupid.

They are already IN these schools!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The financials of the Bowser's plan were laughable and amateurish. Bowser's team was counting on hysterical and anti-inclusion backlashes from the identified communities especially in NW, in order to switch the stage from math to a political duel (NW versus SE). Nothing of this happened, communities, ANC Commissioners and Council members all stayed very cool, defending the inclusion principle but rejecting the financial projections and the plan of building public facilities on private leased properties (with leasing prices agreed at several orders of magnitude above market prices...especially for Ward 3).

Bowser's plan sucked, would have generated a 30+ year damage to the District finances, and a misuse of public resources to return political favors.

Voters are not impressed with Bowsers' hysterical yells at Mendelson , while trying to transfer on the Council the responsibility of any delays in the closing of DC General.

She and her team are revealing themselves for what they are..... Citizens, communities, ANC members and Council members have given them a lesson of civil sense, integration and solidarity values, transparency and good governance principles.

Same is happening in this forums. A handful of contributors trying to light a fire, with community members replying with facts and solid arguments about the inadequacy of the plan (thanks Glover Park poster with kids above Stoddert age).

Bowser's plan was a joke, on that I agree. However, I am not giving credit to affected communities just yet. These people are expert, world class level NIMBYs. No longer do they stand in the street with placards reading, "Keep X out of my town". No, they state that they are "for inclusion" while simultaneously opposing every practical method to actually implement the shelter plan in reality. Watch as the Council's plan gets put through the ringer and ground down to nothing that could possibly be effective for homeless families.

DC General will still be open five years from now.

Your accusation of "NIMBYism" is not shown by current news stories about the new sites chosen by the DC Council. As stated by the DC City Paper, the Ward 6 location is only causing concern there because, as before, the community was not given notice of the location. But they're not crying foul about it now, until they learn more. Neither are any of the other Wards expressing any kind of concern. So, I think you need to check your disapproval of these communities until they try to change the new sites. IMO, they were all really mad at Bowser for her original plans, not the Council's new one.

Agree with this, especially since the former Ward 6 location had 3 shelters already in that neighborhood. Doubtful one more would make a difference.

[Anonymous]

Ward 5 had its issues, too. They had a community meeting to discuss the two possible sites on Friday night, the night before a long holiday weekend. I just read here that the site has been decided upon. That's pretty fast. Yes, some people have issue with it. The chosen site is closer to me, but I'm fine with it.

[Anonymous]

Some info, focusing on wards 6 and 5. http://dcist.com/2016/05/fewer_fireworks_as_dc_council_passe.php?utm_source=feedly&utm_medium=webfeeds

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So the new Ward 6 site is IB for Van Ness? Wow.

I don't think its boundary goes that far. Seems like a poorly selected location for ward 6

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So the new Ward 6 site is IB for Van Ness? Wow.

I don't think its boundary goes that far. Seems like a poorly selected location for ward 6

The rest of Ward 6 disagrees with you.

[Anonymous]

Once the 120 days goes by are these kids plucked out again, or do they have the right to remain at the school in-bounds for the shelter?

[Anonymous]

The good news for Ward 6 is that the Federal Bureau of Prisons is looking at two sites to locate a 300-bed halfway house in the community.

[Anonymous]

Is there a link for the actual locations?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Does anyone know what the plan is on accommodating new students who are living in the new homeless shelters (supposedly as of 2018) at their in-bound school? Do all the kids from each homeless shelter go to their in-bound school or are they divided up and distributed amongst various schools in their ward or close in proximity?

Seems like Bowser hasn't really thought through much of her "plan".

Is OP worried that there might be, gasp, homeless children in her Ward 3 school? Welcome to the rest of DCPS, Ward 3!

That's right! Race to the bottom should be Bowser's mantra!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Once the 120 days goes by are these kids plucked out again, or do they have the right to remain at the school in-bounds for the shelter?

If they switch to the school that is IB to the shelter, they have a right to remain at that school for the rest of the school year, but not after that. Then they would have to switch to their new IB school or enter the lottery (if they wanted to remain at the shelter IB school).

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The good news for Ward 6 is that the Federal Bureau of Prisons is looking at two sites to locate a 300-bed halfway house in the community.

Its actually three sites in ward 6. SW, SE and on H street.