Bowser throws shade at Lafayette parents

[Anonymous]

Yay for Bowser! Lafayette parents are entitled and high maintenance. I say, F** Them!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:DC leadership doesn’t care about ward 3. Their focus is the lower income communities. Just look at recent policy and services. You may agree with this focus or you may not.

Lafayette isn't in Ward 3.

So they should go to middle and high schools in their Ward?

Absolutely! Except that would involve . . . Crossing through the park! Can’t do that because while many may live in Ward 4 they sure do have a Ward 3 mentality.

[Anonymous]

Bowser doesn’t have the guts to move some of Lafayette and SP out of D-W.

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Anonymous wrote:Bowser doesn’t have the guts to move some of Lafayette and SP out of D-W.

She might - but she won't be mayor forever.

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Anonymous wrote:Janeese lobbied against Lafayette using the Military Rd School, as did the Ward 4 Education Alliance. Both thought the school should be used for students who lived near the school (aka not used by student across the park).

She lobbied against Lafayette losing the school because she knew it would play well with Lafayette voters. There was no other reason. If she had pushed Lafayette to move PK there, her next election would have become a lot more difficult.

She has publicly said she thinks Shepherd and Lafayette would be routed out of D-W, so I’m not sure that’s it.

This isn't true. DCPS specifically said that Lafayette and Shepherd would NOT be moved out of the Wilson feeder pattern during public meetings looking at how to use the two new school buildings. I'm a Lafayette parent and I'm so sick of this contingent of current and former Lafayette parents who spread misinformation to further their agenda. You've already stated your real concern is keeping OOB kids out of Lafayette. People called you out as the racists that you are, so now you're making up lies to cover for your real motives.

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Anonymous wrote:Bowser doesn’t have the guts to move some of Lafayette and SP out of D-W.

She might - but she won't be mayor forever.

She's not going to backstab her own neighbors in SP. Doesn't her own kid go to SP?

Bowser is a product of private schools, so eventually her kid will end up there. But still - she would be persona non grata in the neighborhood if she cut SP out of Deal-Wilson. And that cold shoulder will last a lot longer than her tenure as mayor.

[Anonymous]

I find it odd how dismissive people are of the prospect of driving all the way across the park to get to a public school. This makes no sense to me - one of the major selling points of public school is its convenience. We're a Lafayette family and love the school, though we are switching to private for various reasons. But we live within two blocks of Lafayette and I can say with 100% certainty that I would not use a school that's a 10-15 minute drive in the wrong direction (i.e., away from my office, which is downtown). I don't need or want any extra time commitments in the morning before work. I recognize that in this case it means the school didn't get extra space, but a solution that is extremely inconvenient is not really a solution at all, and dismissing this legitimate logistical concern as snobbery or prejudice shows lazy thinking.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I find it odd how dismissive people are of the prospect of driving all the way across the park to get to a public school. This makes no sense to me - one of the major selling points of public school is its convenience. We're a Lafayette family and love the school, though we are switching to private for various reasons. But we live within two blocks of Lafayette and I can say with 100% certainty that I would not use a school that's a 10-15 minute drive in the wrong direction (i.e., away from my office, which is downtown). I don't need or want any extra time commitments in the morning before work. I recognize that in this case it means the school didn't get extra space, but a solution that is extremely inconvenient is not really a solution at all, and dismissing this legitimate logistical concern as snobbery or prejudice shows lazy thinking.

High maintenance.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I find it odd how dismissive people are of the prospect of driving all the way across the park to get to a public school. This makes no sense to me - one of the major selling points of public school is its convenience. We're a Lafayette family and love the school, though we are switching to private for various reasons. But we live within two blocks of Lafayette and I can say with 100% certainty that I would not use a school that's a 10-15 minute drive in the wrong direction (i.e., away from my office, which is downtown). I don't need or want any extra time commitments in the morning before work. I recognize that in this case it means the school didn't get extra space, but a solution that is extremely inconvenient is not really a solution at all, and dismissing this legitimate logistical concern as snobbery or prejudice shows lazy thinking.

I would say that lazy thinking is not realizing that some in-boundary Lafayette parents already have to drive 10-15 minutes to get their kids to school, but I guess you think the boundary is 4 square blocks.

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Anonymous wrote:I find it odd how dismissive people are of the prospect of driving all the way across the park to get to a public school. This makes no sense to me - one of the major selling points of public school is its convenience. We're a Lafayette family and love the school, though we are switching to private for various reasons. But we live within two blocks of Lafayette and I can say with 100% certainty that I would not use a school that's a 10-15 minute drive in the wrong direction (i.e., away from my office, which is downtown). I don't need or want any extra time commitments in the morning before work. I recognize that in this case it means the school didn't get extra space, but a solution that is extremely inconvenient is not really a solution at all, and dismissing this legitimate logistical concern as snobbery or prejudice shows lazy thinking.

"Extremely inconvenient" is almost laughably hyperbolic. It would have involved nine months of very short travel, and I'm going to guess DCPS would have provided a bus that picked up and dropped off from Lafayette itself, as it did for other schools to take kids to swing spaces during renovations. Hardly a burden.

Each new excuse Lafayette parents dish out for why they didn't want this scenario makes them look even more clownishly privileged.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I find it odd how dismissive people are of the prospect of driving all the way across the park to get to a public school. This makes no sense to me - one of the major selling points of public school is its convenience. We're a Lafayette family and love the school, though we are switching to private for various reasons. But we live within two blocks of Lafayette and I can say with 100% certainty that I would not use a school that's a 10-15 minute drive in the wrong direction (i.e., away from my office, which is downtown). I don't need or want any extra time commitments in the morning before work. I recognize that in this case it means the school didn't get extra space, but a solution that is extremely inconvenient is not really a solution at all, and dismissing this legitimate logistical concern as snobbery or prejudice shows lazy thinking.

I went to public school in an affluent suburb. My mom drove us to elementary school. The drive was probably seven minutes long. The opposite direction for the train station. So not a big deal in the grand scheme of things because she liked the school system so much.

You can walk to Lafayette for K up. For Pre-K you could deal with a seven minute commute. Or continue dealing with an overcrowded school or no pre-K program. Or sell you fancy million + dollar house to build a second school building closer to Lafayette.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I find it odd how dismissive people are of the prospect of driving all the way across the park to get to a public school. This makes no sense to me - one of the major selling points of public school is its convenience. We're a Lafayette family and love the school, though we are switching to private for various reasons. But we live within two blocks of Lafayette and I can say with 100% certainty that I would not use a school that's a 10-15 minute drive in the wrong direction (i.e., away from my office, which is downtown). I don't need or want any extra time commitments in the morning before work. I recognize that in this case it means the school didn't get extra space, but a solution that is extremely inconvenient is not really a solution at all, and dismissing this legitimate logistical concern as snobbery or prejudice shows lazy thinking.

This post cracks me up. Lazy thinking haha.

[Anonymous]

PP again but calling this situation ‘extremely inconvenient’ is an indication of how truly lucky you are in life. Please take in that fact. I can give you a lot of other scenarios that are actually ‘extremely inconvenient’ as a comparison.

[Anonymous]

wow, its incredible how fast DCUM can turn something into "you must be a racist"

Lafayette parent here --- Keeping Military road as an early education campus was a WIN FOR ALL. A win for the neighborhood its in having access to more Preschool slots closer to their homes (vs living next door but not having priority) and access to a nearby free preschool option to Lafayette parents, should they choose to lottery for it, (me being one of them!) If they would rather pay for private preschool and have the means to do so great. Lafayette will loose all of is pk slots, of which there are already less then neighborhood demand (this year there were 4 pk4 classes and 7 Kindergarten classes.

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Anonymous wrote:wow, its incredible how fast DCUM can turn something into "you must be a racist"

Lafayette parent here --- Keeping Military road as an early education campus was a WIN FOR ALL. A win for the neighborhood its in having access to more Preschool slots closer to their homes (vs living next door but not having priority) and access to a nearby free preschool option to Lafayette parents, should they choose to lottery for it, (me being one of them!) If they would rather pay for private preschool and have the means to do so great. Lafayette will loose all of is pk slots, of which there are already less then neighborhood demand (this year there were 4 pk4 classes and 7 Kindergarten classes.

I guess that things might seem sudden if you've not been paying any attention to the issue and justifications for the last 18 months (. . .or 50 years).