DME Meeting at SWS June 5th

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I live near the DMV, so should I be allowed to skip the line when I go there?

In fact, I also live near the DC Office of Tax and Revenue. What special privileges should I be given for that?

Nice try. I'm pretty sure that IB rights to go to the head of the line at the DMV weren't suddenly taken away from you and your neighbors only a couple of years ago, together with feeder rights to Stuart-Hobson. In case you hadn't noticed, DC has a neighborhood school system with IB attendance rights everywhere else in the city.

Nice try? The problem with this logic is that the rights WERE taken away a couple of years ago, from the cluster parents, not from the people who currently live across the street who never had rights to the school. Which, for the record, was always an opt-in program and not a by-rights school. I have noticed DC has IB attendance rights, and I wonder at the many ways LT (the neighborhood school) might have benefitted from "the agitator's" involvement this past year, had all of his energy been set on making it a school he wanted to attend.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I live near the DMV, so should I be allowed to skip the line when I go there?

In fact, I also live near the DC Office of Tax and Revenue. What special privileges should I be given for that?

Nice try. I'm pretty sure that IB rights to go to the head of the line at the DMV weren't suddenly taken away from you and your neighbors only a couple of years ago, together with feeder rights to Stuart-Hobson. In case you hadn't noticed, DC has a neighborhood school system with IB attendance rights everywhere else in the city.

Yes, I have noticed. And you already have the right to one IB school at every level -- just like everyone else in the city. Is that not sufficient?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I live near the DMV, so should I be allowed to skip the line when I go there?

In fact, I also live near the DC Office of Tax and Revenue. What special privileges should I be given for that?

Nice try. I'm pretty sure that IB rights to go to the head of the line at the DMV weren't suddenly taken away from you and your neighbors only a couple of years ago, together with feeder rights to Stuart-Hobson. In case you hadn't noticed, DC has a neighborhood school system with IB attendance rights everywhere else in the city.

OMG, you are so full of sh-t. You probably have IB rights to Stuart Hobson, and definitely have feeder rights if you go to L-T. There may have been a few SWS parents who willingly gave up their feeder rights to Watkins and S-H when they stuck with SWS instead of going to Peabody.

[Anonymous]

The neighbors care about proximity rights to SWS, since they currently have boundary rights to Stuart. The SWS parents care about middle school, since SWS has no feeder. There should be two separate meetings, since everyone is going to be holding their own grudge/pity party, unless they just make Stuart the middle school and shut everyone up.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I live near the DMV, so should I be allowed to skip the line when I go there?

In fact, I also live near the DC Office of Tax and Revenue. What special privileges should I be given for that?

Nice try. I'm pretty sure that IB rights to go to the head of the line at the DMV weren't suddenly taken away from you and your neighbors only a couple of years ago, together with feeder rights to Stuart-Hobson. In case you hadn't noticed, DC has a neighborhood school system with IB attendance rights everywhere else in the city.

IB rights to Peabody weren't taken away, the neighborhood never lost the school. There were no IB rights to Prospect LC, which is SWS's new home.

Nobody lost anything that they previously had.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The neighbors care about proximity rights to SWS, since they currently have boundary rights to Stuart. The SWS parents care about middle school, since SWS has no feeder. There should be two separate meetings, since everyone is going to be holding their own grudge/pity party, unless they just make Stuart the middle school and shut everyone up.

So much agita over a low-performing school which overwhelmingly serves low SES students anyway.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
Nice try. I'm pretty sure that IB rights to go to the head of the line at the DMV weren't suddenly taken away from you and your neighbors only a couple of years ago, together with feeder rights to Stuart-Hobson. In case you hadn't noticed, DC has a neighborhood school system with IB attendance rights everywhere else in the city.

You are ridiculous and no one feels sorry for you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
There were no IB rights to Prospect LC, which is SWS's new home.

Actually, SWS's new home is the Goding Elementary building, which educated neighborhood children until it was closed about a decade ago.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
There were no IB rights to Prospect LC, which is SWS's new home.

Actually, SWS's new home is the Goding Elementary building, which educated neighborhood children until it was closed about a decade ago.

Doesn't that mean the same result in the end? We're talking about a building that wasn't in use, and that didn't have a boundary. Nobody had anything taken away from them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
There were no IB rights to Prospect LC, which is SWS's new home.

Actually, SWS's new home is the Goding Elementary building, which educated neighborhood children until it was closed about a decade ago.

Doesn't that mean the same result in the end? We're talking about a building that wasn't in use, and that didn't have a boundary. Nobody had anything taken away from them.

Actually, all of families who were sending their children to Goding had the school taken away from them when it was closed.

Are you planning to tell the Van Ness families that they shouldn't be able to go to school at Van Ness too since it wasn't "taken away from them?" I somewhat imagine decisions about how to set up schools and to draw boundaries for them being made on a more principled level than that. Until a couple years ago, every DCPS elementary school admitted the students who lived near them. Lots of us think that's how they should continue to operate.

[Anonymous]

I wish there were two meetings as well-a community meeting on preferences/boundary and a school specific meeting on feeders.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
There were no IB rights to Prospect LC, which is SWS's new home.

Actually, SWS's new home is the Goding Elementary building, which educated neighborhood children until it was closed about a decade ago.

Doesn't that mean the same result in the end? We're talking about a building that wasn't in use, and that didn't have a boundary. Nobody had anything taken away from them.

Actually, all of families who were sending their children to Goding had the school taken away from them when it was closed.

Are you planning to tell the Van Ness families that they shouldn't be able to go to school at Van Ness too since it wasn't "taken away from them?" I somewhat imagine decisions about how to set up schools and to draw boundaries for them being made on a more principled level than that. Until a couple years ago, every DCPS elementary school admitted the students who lived near them. Lots of us think that's how they should continue to operate.

Yes, of course. But they don't always get the option to attend EVERY school that is near them. Plenty of families live close to one school but are zoned for a different nearby school. If you somehow don't have a neighborhood school at all, that would be cause for concern.

[Anonymous]

If you are quoting another post, do not put your comment within the quote. This isn't difficult. You have to wonder whether the same person is posting all of these.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If you are quoting another post, do not put your comment within the quote. This isn't difficult. You have to wonder whether the same person is posting all of these.

Sorry, that was me. First response to this thread.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:
There were no IB rights to Prospect LC, which is SWS's new home.

Actually, SWS's new home is the Goding Elementary building, which educated neighborhood children until it was closed about a decade ago.

This is wrong.