A few hundred kids at any given time for the foreseeable future, concentrated in certain neighborhoods. This will be devastating. Nope, I won't sit down because I care about the quality of schools in our neighborhood. By figure it out, I'm sure you mean raise taxes to pay for additional services these kids will need. Again, nope. |
LOL Arlington would never! Take a look at the recent uproar when they were just forced to integrate their schools with poor kids who speak limited English. It's weird. It's almost as if ultra liberals dont want to actually live by and with the principles they want to force on others. |
Our suburban high school in MD took 40 kids in 2014. It wasn't easy at all, as schools reallocated funding by moving money into ESOL classes. lots of fights after that . . . A "few hundred kids" isn't a drop in the bucket, especially since many will attend high-poverty, overcrowded schools. |
+1 clearly some posters want to fire off with out really knowing what they're talking about as evidenced in several posts over the last few pages. |
Unless you live in DC SIT DOWN. DC would be able to handle this. |
So they build a shelter in Idaho instead...and then the same kids are united with local family anyways . |
Drawing a blank here. Link or it didn’t happen. |
Tell that to DC elected officials. They came out immediately and very vocally said that DC cannot. |
Oh I lived in DC and am well aware of its capabilities or lack thereof. Look at the state of the current schools where these kids would be going. It ain't upper northwest. DC cannot handle the poor children in need that they have now let alone dumping more in. I'll stick my nose in on this topic no matter where in the immediate area the shelter ends up because these kids would be going to schools in the surrounding suburbs as well. What's your deal with trying to control the topic? |
For such an uber liberal county, you'd think they wouldn't have to be legally forced to integrate poor immigrants . Tsk tsk https://www.wtop.com/arlington/2019/06/arlington-public-schools-agrees-bolster-education-esl-students/amp/ Go on over to the Virginia schools board to see the reaction of redistricting in Arlington. So much uber liberal love on display when their own precious children actually have to interact with the others. |
Not if they're fostering |
| City officials have said don't want a large shelter because that's not an appropriate way to house children. It's basically warehousing them. If they have to be detained at all, they should be in smaller shelters/group homes. Plus, although DC might have some authority in terms of licensing the shelter, it's not clear how much authority they have to oversee operations of a facility that's running a federal program. DC said that they rejected the contractor's application because it was inadequate, but didn't explain how. Certainly, that site lacks appropriate outdoor and play facilities for children. |
| I'm going to guess Bowser could not find a way to line the pockets of her developer benefactors -- you know, the companies that are robbing DC blind to build the homeless shelters -- so she came out against it. |
Maybe. It always seems to be about the money. |
because we've done so well by children
my god this is rich! |