Grandfathered in?

[Anonymous]

Some of the discussions on this board have me nervous. We bought a house two blocks from Lafayette. Are we not guaranteed a spot at Dewan and Wilson when the kids are older?

[Anonymous]

I assume you mean Deal. And no, you aren't guaranteed anything except a K-12 education for each kid.

[Anonymous]

Under current rules, your house is in-bounds for these schools. But boundary lines can change and so can the assignment process. DC could switch to a process of not having in-bound high schools, for example, and assign spaces in a lottery.

Not saying they will do that, but they could. And it's possible that any change will be phased in so it won't affect your kid, but there's no obligation on DCPS' part to do any grandfathering.

Sorry, you aren't 100% guaranteed to keep your kids away from poor kids while living in a city where a quarter of kids live under the poverty line. Unless you homeschool them. You are guaranteed the right to homeschool them in your house 2 blocks from Lafayette.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Under current rules, your house is in-bounds for these schools. But boundary lines can change and so can the assignment process. DC could switch to a process of not having in-bound high schools, for example, and assign spaces in a lottery.

Not saying they will do that, but they could. And it's possible that any change will be phased in so it won't affect your kid, but there's no obligation on DCPS' part to do any grandfathering.

Sorry, you aren't 100% guaranteed to keep your kids away from poor kids while living in a city where a quarter of kids live under the poverty line. Unless you homeschool them. You are guaranteed the right to homeschool them in your house 2 blocks from Lafayette.

A quarter? Try again.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Under current rules, your house is in-bounds for these schools. But boundary lines can change and so can the assignment process. DC could switch to a process of not having in-bound high schools, for example, and assign spaces in a lottery.

Not saying they will do that, but they could. And it's possible that any change will be phased in so it won't affect your kid, but there's no obligation on DCPS' part to do any grandfathering.

Sorry, you aren't 100% guaranteed to keep your kids away from poor kids while living in a city where a quarter of kids live under the poverty line. Unless you homeschool them. You are guaranteed the right to homeschool them in your house 2 blocks from Lafayette.

More like three quarters.

[Anonymous]

What 23:24 said about no guarantees is true. It is also true of every single public school district in the country.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Under current rules, your house is in-bounds for these schools. But boundary lines can change and so can the assignment process. DC could switch to a process of not having in-bound high schools, for example, and assign spaces in a lottery.

Not saying they will do that, but they could. And it's possible that any change will be phased in so it won't affect your kid, but there's no obligation on DCPS' part to do any grandfathering.

Sorry, you aren't 100% guaranteed to keep your kids away from poor kids while living in a city where a quarter of kids live under the poverty line. Unless you homeschool them. You are guaranteed the right to homeschool them in your house 2 blocks from Lafayette.

Aren’t you so holy because you’re okay with your kids going to school with poor ones (even though study after study shows that having too many poor kids in a class negatively affects learning for all kids)!

[Anonymous]

I'm poor but even I moved to upper north west. Moved here from shootings in Columbia Heights. Once school time came around, we were set.
I work alongside DC poor grown-ups. I imagine poor kids are fine kids. It's the locations of the schools that worry me.
OP, you should be ok being that close to Lafayette and Deal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Under current rules, your house is in-bounds for these schools. But boundary lines can change and so can the assignment process. DC could switch to a process of not having in-bound high schools, for example, and assign spaces in a lottery.

Not saying they will do that, but they could. And it's possible that any change will be phased in so it won't affect your kid, but there's no obligation on DCPS' part to do any grandfathering.

Sorry, you aren't 100% guaranteed to keep your kids away from poor kids while living in a city where a quarter of kids live under the poverty line. Unless you homeschool them. You are guaranteed the right to homeschool them in your house 2 blocks from Lafayette.

Aren’t you clever for figuring out who OP is. Are you saying OP is likely white and a racist? Do no black or brown people buy houses? Do they never buy a house due to its location with in a certain school boundary? Are you saying only white people are concerned about the quality of their kids’ schools or their property values? Nice.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Some of the discussions on this board have me nervous. We bought a house two blocks from Lafayette. Are we not guaranteed a spot at Dewan and Wilson when the kids are older?

The only thing you are guaranteed is that your child can attend a public school in DC.

Now - let's do a reality check. During the last redistricting, there was not the will power to cut-off Crestwood and 16th St Heights from Deal.
Realistically, the 1st school that MAY be pulled as a Deal Feeder would be Bancroft. Why? Spanish immersion elementary should feed Spanish immersion middle school. Also - that part of DC does not have the same political power as Shepard.

I can not see a situation where Lafayette changes middle schools feeder pattern and Shepard does not. The Mayor wants to get re-elected. Reminder - Crestwood was not Grandfathered under the previous Mayor - but current one stepped in and over-rode that decision.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some of the discussions on this board have me nervous. We bought a house two blocks from Lafayette. Are we not guaranteed a spot at Dewan and Wilson when the kids are older?

The only thing you are guaranteed is that your child can attend a public school in DC.

Now - let's do a reality check. During the last redistricting, there was not the will power to cut-off Crestwood and 16th St Heights from Deal.
Realistically, the 1st school that MAY be pulled as a Deal Feeder would be Bancroft. Why? Spanish immersion elementary should feed Spanish immersion middle school. Also - that part of DC does not have the same political power as Shepard.

I can not see a situation where Lafayette changes middle schools feeder pattern and Shepard does not. The Mayor wants to get re-elected. Reminder - Crestwood was not Grandfathered under the previous Mayor - but current one stepped in and over-rode that decision.

Isn't MacFarland's enrollmemt already coming in high, though?

[Anonymous]

OP, there are no guarantees. Just like any public school system, boundaries change. DC has historically grandfathered kids to their current school or feeder pattern but they don’t have to. There is also the possibility - regardless of what some posters want - that Lafayette would be re-zoned out of the Deal/Wilson pattern. Them’s the breaks.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Some of the discussions on this board have me nervous. We bought a house two blocks from Lafayette. Are we not guaranteed a spot at Dewan and Wilson when the kids are older?

The only thing you are guaranteed is that your child can attend a public school in DC.

Now - let's do a reality check. During the last redistricting, there was not the will power to cut-off Crestwood and 16th St Heights from Deal.
Realistically, the 1st school that MAY be pulled as a Deal Feeder would be Bancroft. Why? Spanish immersion elementary should feed Spanish immersion middle school. Also - that part of DC does not have the same political power as Shepard.

I can not see a situation where Lafayette changes middle schools feeder pattern and Shepard does not. The Mayor wants to get re-elected. Reminder - Crestwood was not Grandfathered under the previous Mayor - but current one stepped in and over-rode that decision.

Isn't MacFarland's enrollmemt already coming in high, though?

Bancroft now has a programmatic feed to MacFarland. Families that want to go there can choose it without going through the lottery or any OOB process. I would be interested to know how many have chosen this path rather than Deal.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Under current rules, your house is in-bounds for these schools. But boundary lines can change and so can the assignment process. DC could switch to a process of not having in-bound high schools, for example, and assign spaces in a lottery.

Not saying they will do that, but they could. And it's possible that any change will be phased in so it won't affect your kid, but there's no obligation on DCPS' part to do any grandfathering.

Sorry, you aren't 100% guaranteed to keep your kids away from poor kids while living in a city where a quarter of kids live under the poverty line. Unless you homeschool them. You are guaranteed the right to homeschool them in your house 2 blocks from Lafayette.

Aren’t you clever for figuring out who OP is. Are you saying OP is likely white and a racist? Do no black or brown people buy houses? Do they never buy a house due to its location with in a certain school boundary? Are you saying only white people are concerned about the quality of their kids’ schools or their property values? Nice.

The only person discussing OP's race is you.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Under current rules, your house is in-bounds for these schools. But boundary lines can change and so can the assignment process. DC could switch to a process of not having in-bound high schools, for example, and assign spaces in a lottery.

Not saying they will do that, but they could. And it's possible that any change will be phased in so it won't affect your kid, but there's no obligation on DCPS' part to do any grandfathering.

Sorry, you aren't 100% guaranteed to keep your kids away from poor kids while living in a city where a quarter of kids live under the poverty line. Unless you homeschool them. You are guaranteed the right to homeschool them in your house 2 blocks from Lafayette.

More like three quarters.

It's about a quarter who are below the poverty line https://datacenter.kidscount.org/data/tables/6748-child-poverty-by-ward#detailed/3/any/false/870,573,869,36,868,867,133,11/any/13834

It's about 3/4 who are considered "at risk" but that includes kids who are not in poverty per se, but have other risk factors (foster care, being a year or more behind on credits in high school) or who get needs-based programs you can qualify for even if you're about 100% of the poverty line (SNAP, for example).