How can DCPS improve *all* its schools when Wilson and feeders raise big PTA money for enrichment?
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| Also: Anacostia Park comes up as number 1 in the DMV in at least one list of the best plagrounds. |
Anonymous
You do know many people can’t afford a vacation at all, right?! And if they spent their entire paycheck could still not afford a house there. But please school us on your vow of poverty... jeeeeeez. WotP are clueless. |
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| Also- the Lafayette school playground is on par with other renovated DCPS playgrounds. The EOTP poster is likely thinking of the adjoining DCPR playground, which is not part of the elementary school. |
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| PP: this is just America all over. People with two-earner household incomes over $200,000 think "we don't drive limousines and swim in champagne and party like rappers so we aren't rich." Meanwhile, they're in the top quintile of income in the U.S. I mean, just read this board: there's a slang term here for "upper middle class" people because of the way Americans define themselves. |
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As far as I can tell, Murch is done. Any other updates needed for this list? |
Anonymous
I agree with this but it’s also true that this fact is not related to whether and in what order the DCPS facility was renovated, as was already discussed upthread. |
Anonymous
Right. Hence it's a list of COMPLETED schools. |
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This fight over what constitutes UMC and rich is not relevant to the point of this thread.
A PP made a statement that the Lafayette was "a palace" because the rich families (all in their 2.5M houses) control the PTA, which apparently controls DCPS facilities management. None of that is true. No one is claiming that Lafayette kids are poor kids. It is an UMC neighborhood. What it is not is a neighborhood full of 2.5 Million houses. And the state of the Lafayette facilities are great after a long wait and extensive renovation that is on par with the renovations of schools happening all over the city. That is all. Go over the money forum to debate what is UMC and what is rich. I am not a Lafayette parent or neighbor, but this finger pointing started by an inflammatory post is ridiculous. |
Anonymous
If you want to see a neighborhood of 2.5 million dollar homes, you'll need to head west to Mann territory. |
Anonymous
Is the list above - in this thread - completed or “currently being renovated.” Because Eaton is in planning but Murch is done. The list found at the url above is supposedly those schools that have been renovated but a Murch isn’t on it. So which list is which? Losing credibility fast here. |
Anonymous
Sorry, no it isn't. We are five blocks from there. It's great; Lafayette is better. Have you been? There are trees. |
Anonymous
Or Oyster or Eaton ES boundary areas. |
Anonymous
This is funny. You do realize that most of us don't make much of a distinction? Once it's over a million, it's so far out of bounds for the vast majority of DC that you're splitting hairs. The grounds are amazing. Do you really think there are no advantages conferred on a school WOTP which are not received by the poorer schools? And do you really think none of those advantages have anything to do with the parents at said school, whatever mechanism is used? |
Anonymous
It's not America all over. It's America here. And I keep pointing it out because it's so crazy to me, coming from another region. |
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Not top quintile. If not 1%, then top 5%. |