Hyde-Addison Parents Starting New School

[Anonymous]

“Do you remember at the big meeting last fall when the Hyde-Addison parents met with Mayor Muriel Bowser to object to busing our children for over an hour to a substitute school the next two years while our school is being renovated?” asked Elissa Alben, the mother of three Hyde-Addison Public Elementary School students, aged 4, 7 and 9.

“The mayor told us we had only two options. One, busing the some-300 students ages 4 to 9 for over an hour each day across town to a school in another zone that needs renovation itself. Or two, wait a year and have the children bused to D.C. University, where the city will fix up space for them. The mayor told us parents, ‘You let me know which one you decide.’”

Alben took a sip of coffee at Via Umbria last Saturday and shook her head.

http://www.georgetowner.com/articles/2017/mar/06/hyde-addison-parents-start-new-school/

[Anonymous]

Its "The University of the District of Columbia."

[Anonymous]

Any compassion I could feel for you all just goes to nothing with the whiny attitudes.

I'm sure you're equally concerned about our families who get stuck with similar situations but can't just leave work and start a semi-private school. Or have a whimsical article written about it.

[Anonymous]

By the time they have that new school up and running, the renovation will be done. Stupid.

[Anonymous]

Insufferable.

[Anonymous]

You know the kid who took his ball home when the guys wouldn't play his way? He never did learn. He still thinks he "won."

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Insufferable.

+1

[Anonymous]

Please state why starting a new school is "insufferable." Parents don't like their options, so they start a new school. Isn't that the American Way?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Please state why starting a new school is "insufferable." Parents don't like their options, so they start a new school. Isn't that the American Way?

That part is just fine. Admirable even.

"she says she and all the parents are very disappointed that there were no other public school choices in the area. Ironically, Georgetown has no public charter schools — unlike other parts of the District, which has been characterized as “the queen of charter schools.”

This part is insuffersble. There are many, many parts of DC that don't have charter schools. Charter schools couldn't afford to open in Georgetown if they wanted to. Heaven forbid snowflake drive in a AC shuttle bus to a school that is not perfect for brief period while my IB school is getting multi million dollar renovation. Many people have done it and will continue to do it. An hour commute each day? Please. First of all its not an hour (or even half hour if that's what she's implying). Funny how when Georgetown people are bragging about their 10 minute commute into the city, but now all the sudden, it's an undoable commute (and the parents aren't being asked to do the commute). These kids commute 3 times as far to go to summer camp at Valley Mill. Second, thousands of families commute that much and more every single day for 12+ years (not a brief blimp of their kid's education).

[Anonymous]

There is so much vitriol for Hyde parents on DCUM. Posters seem to assume that all Georgetown residents and loaded and snooty. Everyone wants the best they can get for their kids, and Georgetown isn't near any of the charters, so options are limited.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Please state why starting a new school is "insufferable." Parents don't like their options, so they start a new school. Isn't that the American Way?

That part is just fine. Admirable even.

"she says she and all the parents are very disappointed that there were no other public school choices in the area. Ironically, Georgetown has no public charter schools — unlike other parts of the District, which has been characterized as “the queen of charter schools.”

This part is insuffersble. There are many, many parts of DC that don't have charter schools. Charter schools couldn't afford to open in Georgetown if they wanted to. Heaven forbid snowflake drive in a AC shuttle bus to a school that is not perfect for brief period while my IB school is getting multi million dollar renovation. Many people have done it and will continue to do it. An hour commute each day? Please. First of all its not an hour (or even half hour if that's what she's implying). Funny how when Georgetown people are bragging about their 10 minute commute into the city, but now all the sudden, it's an undoable commute (and the parents aren't being asked to do the commute). These kids commute 3 times as far to go to summer camp at Valley Mill. Second, thousands of families commute that much and more every single day for 12+ years (not a brief blimp of their kid's education).

You sound hurt.

[Anonymous]

Let me get this straight. You expected DCPS to provide a 50 student school that costs $20,000 and requires significant parental involvement to run? Do you hear yourselves?
You're lucky DCPS is renovating your school. Busing is a reasonable thing to do during the construction.

[Anonymous]

Good riddance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:“Do you remember at the big meeting last fall when the Hyde-Addison parents met with Mayor Muriel Bowser to object to busing our children for over an hour to a substitute school the next two years while our school is being renovated?” asked Elissa Alben, the mother of three Hyde-Addison Public Elementary School students, aged 4, 7 and 9.

“The mayor told us we had only two options. One, busing the some-300 students ages 4 to 9 for over an hour each day across town to a school in another zone that needs renovation itself. Or two, wait a year and have the children bused to D.C. University, where the city will fix up space for them. The mayor told us parents, ‘You let me know which one you decide.’”

Alben took a sip of coffee at Via Umbria last Saturday and shook her head.

http://www.georgetowner.com/articles/2017/mar/06/hyde-addison-parents-start-new-school/

But she says they decided it would have be ok to delay a year and swing to UDC, which is further away and would take just as long to get to on a bus.

Putting aside what that decision would have done to all the other renovation projects in the city, this just shows their biases. It's not about distance. These parents simply are scaraed to send their kid to a less wealthy part of town, that happens to have more black and brown folks.

[Anonymous]

the private school is an obvious non-starter, but is this a genuine option between the 11th St location in Columbia Hghts or postponing a year and using the UDC space currently occupied by Murch swing? That seems like a fair question and perhaps a slightly easier commute.