Mayor Bowser adopts a child (baby?)

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Anonymous wrote:The baby is a girl, and her name is Miranda.

The mayor can have as much flexibility in her schedule as she needs (perks of office) and has all her extended family in the area. I think she and the baby will be just fine.

+1000.

If she were taking more time off, people would say she's taking too much. Damned if she does; damned if she doesn't. Just goes to show how women are judged unfairly and unduly harshly for their parenting/career choices. Congrats to the Mayor, and best of luck as a new working mom.

Yeah, my first thought was, she's nuts and it's not good for us as a city to have a newly single mom mayor.

Then I remembered that my hero is Tammy Duckworth. Who I just like better politically. But just because I don't like Bowser as mayor doesn't mean I shouldn't be proud and excited that she's breaking through this barrier.

Breaking through what barrier exactly?

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Single parent mayor in this city?

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Anonymous wrote:Wow! I didn't vote for her and am not a big fan, but this humanizes her some.

She's my neighbor. I wonder whether she'll send the child to our IB, Shepherd, in three years, or go private.

I guarantee she will send baby to Shepherd.

She most likely won’t be mayor by then so will anybody care?

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Anonymous wrote:Wow! I didn't vote for her and am not a big fan, but this humanizes her some.

She's my neighbor. I wonder whether she'll send the child to our IB, Shepherd, in three years, or go private.

I guarantee she will send baby to Shepherd.

She most likely won’t be mayor by then so will anybody care?

Only three years until PK3. And she’s unchallenged for a second term.

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Anonymous wrote:Have you noticed that most if not all of our current council members who are DC residents and mayor (even candidates) have never spent a day in a DC school?

Mayor Bowser went to Seton. Grosso, the liberal's liberal, went to school outside of DC, White (Robert not Trayon) attended Gonzaga. I think he may have attended a DCPS elementary school.

Current Ward 1 candidates Reid, Oyster, and then the Field School, Lori Parker, Madeira, Goodwin for council at-large went to DCPS for elementary then to St. Albans.

Trayvon went to DCPS.

You got his name tragically wrong.

The spelling error shouldn't preclude "You can tell" as an obvious response.

Ha, exactly. As a DCPS supporter, I am disappointed to learn that Trayon White may be the only Council member to have attended a DCPS (Ballou). What an endorsement....

The bar used to be to send their own kid to DC schools, but now your want a prerequisite that they attended DCPS 20-40 years ago? You people are pathetic.

Um, I’m actually just pointing out that’s it’s kind of embarrassing that seemingly the ONLY DCPS high school grad on the DC City Council happens to have an embarrassing lack of knowledge about world history, specifically World War II and the Holocaust. I’m not blaming DCPS, but it’s an unfortunate coincidence and is embarrassing for frankly all the schools he attended. Anyway, I don’t think it’s unrealistic to think that, by now, some of our current public servants would come from here and have attended public school.

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My first cynical thought was OF COURSE she got a newborn six months after "starting the adoption journey."

A process that takes years for everyone else takes months when you know the right people, I guess.

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Anonymous wrote:My first cynical thought was OF COURSE she got a newborn six months after "starting the adoption journey."

A process that takes years for everyone else takes months when you know the right people, I guess.

I’m the poster from upthread who adopted a newborn as a mid-40s single woman. It only took me about 11 months, and I am Jane Nobody, so...the idea that “everyone else” always waits a long time is a myth.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow! I didn't vote for her and am not a big fan, but this humanizes her some.

She's my neighbor. I wonder whether she'll send the child to our IB, Shepherd, in three years, or go private.

I guarantee she will send baby to Shepherd.

Nah I bet she’ll go private. Like fancy, 30k a year private.

that's not particularly "fancy." closer to 40K and that doesn't include extras like fees and extended care.

The most expensive private, WIS, Costs Pre-Kindergarten Tuition: $33,710.
Kindergarten to Grade 5 Tuition: $36,600.

Upper grades is 40k. And agree she will get scholarships.

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jsteele wrote:Now Mayor Bowser is a DCUM. I expect to see her using the website.

Until the election at least. She does know that the baby will require attention beyond the election right? The kid is not a yard sign.

Nasty, but I was thinking the same thing. Guess I'm nasty, too.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow! I didn't vote for her and am not a big fan, but this humanizes her some.

She's my neighbor. I wonder whether she'll send the child to our IB, Shepherd, in three years, or go private.

I guarantee she will send baby to Shepherd.

Nah I bet she’ll go private. Like fancy, 30k a year private.

that's not particularly "fancy." closer to 40K and that doesn't include extras like fees and extended care.

The most expensive private, WIS, Costs Pre-Kindergarten Tuition: $33,710.
Kindergarten to Grade 5 Tuition: $36,600.

Upper grades is 40k. And agree she will get scholarships.

There are several more expensive privates out there. Sidwell's lower school's base tuition was around $40K this year. Beauvoir, GDS, etc. are close to $40K too.

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Anonymous wrote:My first cynical thought was OF COURSE she got a newborn six months after "starting the adoption journey."

A process that takes years for everyone else takes months when you know the right people, I guess.

I bet a lot of pregnant women who are placing their kids for adoption would be favorably disposed to their children being raised by the mayor. She has plenty of money, a nice house, solid employment prospects (busy now, but with some flexibility now and a lot more before the kid's even in kindergarten), and extended family nearby. I think it's less knowing the right people and more being the right person to be attractive to people considering adoption.

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Kenyon McDuffie graduated from Wilson.

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Anonymous wrote:My first cynical thought was OF COURSE she got a newborn six months after "starting the adoption journey."

A process that takes years for everyone else takes months when you know the right people, I guess.

I have a friend who is an upper middle class AA man who adopted two biracial newborns not. Took under a year each time.

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Anonymous wrote:Wow! I didn't vote for her and am not a big fan, but this humanizes her some.

She's my neighbor. I wonder whether she'll send the child to our IB, Shepherd, in three years, or go private.

I guarantee she will send baby to Shepherd.

Nah I bet she’ll go private. Like fancy, 30k a year private.

that's not particularly "fancy." closer to 40K and that doesn't include extras like fees and extended care.

The most expensive private, WIS, Costs Pre-Kindergarten Tuition: $33,710.
Kindergarten to Grade 5 Tuition: $36,600.

Upper grades is 40k. And agree she will get scholarships.

There are several more expensive privates out there. Sidwell's lower school's base tuition was around $40K this year. Beauvoir, GDS, etc. are close to $40K too.

That is definitely the point of this thread.

Facepalm.

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Anonymous wrote:My first cynical thought was OF COURSE she got a newborn six months after "starting the adoption journey."

A process that takes years for everyone else takes months when you know the right people, I guess.

I bet a lot of pregnant women who are placing their kids for adoption would be favorably disposed to their children being raised by the mayor. She has plenty of money, a nice house, solid employment prospects (busy now, but with some flexibility now and a lot more before the kid's even in kindergarten), and extended family nearby. I think it's less knowing the right people and more being the right person to be attractive to people considering adoption.

She is also a terrible mayor and corrupt, so there is that.