First day drop off -- MD tags

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Assuming that many of the people with Maryland tags are coming from PG county is simple geography. At least on the Hill it is. It's a straight shot from PG, to the Hill schools, to downtown. If it were not so convenient, I'm sure they wouldn't do it.

It's the result of PG's crappy schools + proximity. The other neighboring counties have really good schools -- hence, nobody from there's banging down any doors to drop off their kids in DCPS purgatory (unless it's some kind of competitive charter, I guess). Hey, and guess what -- as a result, there are real numbers of parents from PG dropping their kids off at DCPS. What's interesting is the character of the pushback against anyone who (a) recognizes this phenomena, and then (b) expresses an opinion that it should stop. The character of the pushback is either it's no big deal or eff y'all racists; either way there's a huge blind spot in the critics' analysis. Just interesting.

Silver Spring does not have great schools. And it is also a straight shot into the city on your way to work downtown. The blind spot is in your eyes, so maybe you should pull that yoke out before trying to figure out others.

No one from Silver Spring is trying to cheat their way into DC schools. Everyone knows which county the kids come from.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Assuming that many of the people with Maryland tags are coming from PG county is simple geography. At least on the Hill it is. It's a straight shot from PG, to the Hill schools, to downtown. If it were not so convenient, I'm sure they wouldn't do it.

It's the result of PG's crappy schools + proximity. The other neighboring counties have really good schools -- hence, nobody from there's banging down any doors to drop off their kids in DCPS purgatory (unless it's some kind of competitive charter, I guess). Hey, and guess what -- as a result, there are real numbers of parents from PG dropping their kids off at DCPS. What's interesting is the character of the pushback against anyone who (a) recognizes this phenomena, and then (b) expresses an opinion that it should stop. The character of the pushback is either it's no big deal or eff y'all racists; either way there's a huge blind spot in the critics' analysis. Just interesting.

Silver Spring does not have great schools. And it is also a straight shot into the city on your way to work downtown. The blind spot is in your eyes, so maybe you should pull that yoke out before trying to figure out others.

No one from Silver Spring is trying to cheat their way into DC schools. Everyone knows which county the kids come from.

Silver spring has it's own problems with hoodrats from PG committing residency fraud to attend MoCo schools.

[Anonymous]

Hood rats from pg?

You do indeed sound like someone who is concerned about all children.

Frankly, the number of cars with Maryland plates and shepherd elementary stickers I see in my neighborhood makes me assume that some of them live a few blocks away... and not driving in from pg. But, then I also take off my tin foil hat and assume they are extended family, or perhaps employees of the elementart school.

[Anonymous]

So the people in Shepherd Park are illegally avoiding registering their cars in DC? How is that better than residency cheating?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So the people in Shepherd Park are illegally avoiding registering their cars in DC? How is that better than residency cheating?

It doesn't deprive anyone of a seat at school. It just deprives everyone of tax revenue.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:So the people in Shepherd Park are illegally avoiding registering their cars in DC? How is that better than residency cheating?

It doesn't deprive anyone of a seat at school. It just deprives everyone of tax revenue.

and what do you think pays for the schools if not tax revenue?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Hood rats from pg?

You do indeed sound like someone who is concerned about all children.

Frankly, the number of cars with Maryland plates and shepherd elementary stickers I see in my neighborhood makes me assume that some of them live a few blocks away... and not driving in from pg. But, then I also take off my tin foil hat and assume they are extended family, or perhaps employees of the elementart school.

This would surprise me, honestly. As far as I can tell, "a few blocks away" from the Shepherd Zone makes you eligible for either Takoma Park ES, East Silver Spring, Rosemary Hills, or Rock Creek Forest. All are good schools, all ranked slightly higher than Shepherd on GS, if one cares about that sort of thing (TPES and ESS are only slightly above, but still...). Basically, I don't see someone risking getting caught, fined, and thrown out of the system in order to get into Shepherd with those options, even though it is a well-loved neighborhood school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hood rats from pg?

You do indeed sound like someone who is concerned about all children.

Frankly, the number of cars with Maryland plates and shepherd elementary stickers I see in my neighborhood makes me assume that some of them live a few blocks away... and not driving in from pg. But, then I also take off my tin foil hat and assume they are extended family, or perhaps employees of the elementart school.

This would surprise me, honestly. As far as I can tell, "a few blocks away" from the Shepherd Zone makes you eligible for either Takoma Park ES, East Silver Spring, Rosemary Hills, or Rock Creek Forest. All are good schools, all ranked slightly higher than Shepherd on GS, if one cares about that sort of thing (TPES and ESS are only slightly above, but still...). Basically, I don't see someone risking getting caught, fined, and thrown out of the system in order to get into Shepherd with those options, even though it is a well-loved neighborhood school.

Oops, this is PP. I misread Shepherd's ranking. It's higher than TPES or ESS. But I still don't think the difference is so great as to risk the kind of trouble one would get into.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Assuming that many of the people with Maryland tags are coming from PG county is simple geography. At least on the Hill it is. It's a straight shot from PG, to the Hill schools, to downtown. If it were not so convenient, I'm sure they wouldn't do it.

It's the result of PG's crappy schools + proximity. The other neighboring counties have really good schools -- hence, nobody from there's banging down any doors to drop off their kids in DCPS purgatory (unless it's some kind of competitive charter, I guess). Hey, and guess what -- as a result, there are real numbers of parents from PG dropping their kids off at DCPS. What's interesting is the character of the pushback against anyone who (a) recognizes this phenomena, and then (b) expresses an opinion that it should stop. The character of the pushback is either it's no big deal or eff y'all racists; either way there's a huge blind spot in the critics' analysis. Just interesting.

Silver Spring does not have great schools. And it is also a straight shot into the city on your way to work downtown. The blind spot is in your eyes, so maybe you should pull that yoke out before trying to figure out others.

No one from Silver Spring is trying to cheat their way into DC schools. Everyone knows which county the kids come from.

Yet, at my kid's DCUM HRCS, two kids from SS were asked to leave.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:So the people in Shepherd Park are illegally avoiding registering their cars in DC? How is that better than residency cheating?

You failed reading comprehension in school or you are a tool. SP is a hop, skip and a jump from SS. The poster said a few blocks away.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hood rats from pg?

You do indeed sound like someone who is concerned about all children.

Frankly, the number of cars with Maryland plates and shepherd elementary stickers I see in my neighborhood makes me assume that some of them live a few blocks away... and not driving in from pg. But, then I also take off my tin foil hat and assume they are extended family, or perhaps employees of the elementart school.

This would surprise me, honestly. As far as I can tell, "a few blocks away" from the Shepherd Zone makes you eligible for either Takoma Park ES, East Silver Spring, Rosemary Hills, or Rock Creek Forest. All are good schools, all ranked slightly higher than Shepherd on GS, if one cares about that sort of thing (TPES and ESS are only slightly above, but still...). Basically, I don't see someone risking getting caught, fined, and thrown out of the system in order to get into Shepherd with those options, even though it is a well-loved neighborhood school.

Oops, this is PP. I misread Shepherd's ranking. It's higher than TPES or ESS. But I still don't think the difference is so great as to risk the kind of trouble one would get into.

What you think is not important to what another parent might think. Stop looking through your own tainted lenses to justify your biases.

[Anonymous]

So the people in Shepherd Park are illegally avoiding registering their cars in DC? How is that better than residency cheating?

No. As I said in my post,... I think the people in Shepherd Park who park cars with MD plates and have Shepherd Elementary stickers are staff. Or grandparents. Or extended relatives who are proud of Shepherd Elementary, which is an excellent school. But that is also because I am not a paranoid person who thinks everyone from PG is a hood rat, or that everyone with MD plates and children in their cars driving in DC is cheating the system. Sometimes, when I drive my own child from one point of DC to another to go to school we do so almost entirely on Maryland roads. Because it is faster.

My apologies, good folk of Maryland. I am sorry that I am taking advantage of your tax dollars spent on decent roads and better traffic patterns.

[Anonymous]

(and queue poster chiming in about how she didn't mean all people in PG county are poor--indeed, many are affluent and have hummers and larger houses than she does because they cheat the system and work for the government in 3, 2, 1..._

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hood rats from pg?

You do indeed sound like someone who is concerned about all children.

Frankly, the number of cars with Maryland plates and shepherd elementary stickers I see in my neighborhood makes me assume that some of them live a few blocks away... and not driving in from pg. But, then I also take off my tin foil hat and assume they are extended family, or perhaps employees of the elementart school.

This would surprise me, honestly. As far as I can tell, "a few blocks away" from the Shepherd Zone makes you eligible for either Takoma Park ES, East Silver Spring, Rosemary Hills, or Rock Creek Forest. All are good schools, all ranked slightly higher than Shepherd on GS, if one cares about that sort of thing (TPES and ESS are only slightly above, but still...). Basically, I don't see someone risking getting caught, fined, and thrown out of the system in order to get into Shepherd with those options, even though it is a well-loved neighborhood school.

Oops, this is PP. I misread Shepherd's ranking. It's higher than TPES or ESS. But I still don't think the difference is so great as to risk the kind of trouble one would get into.

What you think is not important to what another parent might think. Stop looking through your own tainted lenses to justify your biases.

What biases are those? A bias toward not having my child be embarrassed in front of their classmates? A bias toward not being fined the amount of my child's attendance at that school? I'll admit, there would have to be a pretty big benefit for me to take that kind of risk, and, while Shepherd is a great school, I have a hard time seeing how one would be incentivized to take that risk unless their home school was really bad.

[Anonymous]

(and queue poster explaining that Shepherd has Deal rights, and therefore, of COURSE everyone would be willing to take that chance, because... Deal. Have you heard of Alice Deal? It's the best middle school, like ever.)