Bowser throws shade at Lafayette parents

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Anonymous wrote: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.

What makes you think the poster doesn't know they are lucky in life? Because they don't want to be inconvenienced in this particular situation if they don't have to be?

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Anonymous wrote: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.

What makes you think the poster doesn't know they are lucky in life? Because they don't want to be inconvenienced in this particular situation if they don't have to be?

DP but even calling the a 10 minute commute to dedicated free preschool created by the City for your kids in response to your complaints "extremely inconvenient" shows that the PPP is lacking some necessary perspective.

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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.

You are incorrect. Janeese Lewis George has said, multiple times, that she believes that Lafayette and Shepherd should be re-routed to Ward 4 middle-high schools. Similarly, the city has NEVER and would NEVER commit to keeping ANY school within ANY middle-high school pattern in perpetuity. Ask Crestwood parents.

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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.

Bowser has been snubbed by the SP types her whole life - and she thinks she's going to be a Biden second-term appointee. She gives zero effs about SP - and her kid will go private at K. Watch.

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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.

I actually don't think it's the biggest deal to not have a larger public pre-k in one of the most affluent areas. "Inconvenient" means inconvenient, not impossible or catastrophic. My point is that saying you don't want this because it's inconvenient isn't cover for something more nefarious. I, personally, would not use a school that is miles in the wrong direction and would instead use a private preschool (of which there are plenty in CCDC). I would feel the same if I lived eotp and took North Capitol to work, as I used to, and was zoned for Lafayette.

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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).

Amen. PP must be a new family to the area. No way she can be that naïve.

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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.

You are incorrect. Janeese Lewis George has said, multiple times, that she believes that Lafayette and Shepherd should be re-routed to Ward 4 middle-high schools. Similarly, the city has NEVER and would NEVER commit to keeping ANY school within ANY middle-high school pattern in perpetuity. Ask Crestwood parents.

That’s not true. JLG has specifically said she supports SP and Lafayette families who want to maintain the Deal-Wilson feeder pattern. Not that it matters, ultimately, because the Council has very little say on what goes on with DCPS.

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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.

I actually don't think it's the biggest deal to not have a larger public pre-k in one of the most affluent areas. "Inconvenient" means inconvenient, not impossible or catastrophic. My point is that saying you don't want this because it's inconvenient isn't cover for something more nefarious. I, personally, would not use a school that is miles in the wrong direction and would instead use a private preschool (of which there are plenty in CCDC). I would feel the same if I lived eotp and took North Capitol to work, as I used to, and was zoned for Lafayette.

Actually there aren’t “many” private preschool options IN CCDC. There are places like CCBC but even that is 5-12 min drive depending on what part of CC you’re in. Then a commute downtown would look the same as a drop off at free Military Road drop off then southbound downtown. But something about an East then south commute makes people allergic compared to a west then south commute.

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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.

I actually don't think it's the biggest deal to not have a larger public pre-k in one of the most affluent areas. "Inconvenient" means inconvenient, not impossible or catastrophic. My point is that saying you don't want this because it's inconvenient isn't cover for something more nefarious. I, personally, would not use a school that is miles in the wrong direction and would instead use a private preschool (of which there are plenty in CCDC). I would feel the same if I lived eotp and took North Capitol to work, as I used to, and was zoned for Lafayette.

Actually there aren’t “many” private preschool options IN CCDC. There are places like CCBC but even that is 5-12 min drive depending on what part of CC you’re in. Then a commute downtown would look the same as a drop off at free Military Road drop off then southbound downtown. But something about an East then south commute makes people allergic compared to a west then south commute.

Because it means crossing town twice, at rush hour. What road on the east side is as convenient as Connecticut for getting to K St/Farragut North? There isn't one.

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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.

I actually don't think it's the biggest deal to not have a larger public pre-k in one of the most affluent areas. "Inconvenient" means inconvenient, not impossible or catastrophic. My point is that saying you don't want this because it's inconvenient isn't cover for something more nefarious. I, personally, would not use a school that is miles in the wrong direction and would instead use a private preschool (of which there are plenty in CCDC). I would feel the same if I lived eotp and took North Capitol to work, as I used to, and was zoned for Lafayette.

Actually there aren’t “many” private preschool options IN CCDC. There are places like CCBC but even that is 5-12 min drive depending on what part of CC you’re in. Then a commute downtown would look the same as a drop off at free Military Road drop off then southbound downtown. But something about an East then south commute makes people allergic compared to a west then south commute.

Because it means crossing town twice, at rush hour. What road on the east side is as convenient as Connecticut for getting to K St/Farragut North? There isn't one.

Why can’t you go down 16th?

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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.

I actually don't think it's the biggest deal to not have a larger public pre-k in one of the most affluent areas. "Inconvenient" means inconvenient, not impossible or catastrophic. My point is that saying you don't want this because it's inconvenient isn't cover for something more nefarious. I, personally, would not use a school that is miles in the wrong direction and would instead use a private preschool (of which there are plenty in CCDC). I would feel the same if I lived eotp and took North Capitol to work, as I used to, and was zoned for Lafayette.

Actually there aren’t “many” private preschool options IN CCDC. There are places like CCBC but even that is 5-12 min drive depending on what part of CC you’re in. Then a commute downtown would look the same as a drop off at free Military Road drop off then southbound downtown. But something about an East then south commute makes people allergic compared to a west then south commute.

Because it means crossing town twice, at rush hour. What road on the east side is as convenient as Connecticut for getting to K St/Farragut North? There isn't one.

Why can’t you go down 16th?

Because it has a million stop lights and fewer lanes, and CT goes basically directly to my office.

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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.

You are incorrect. Janeese Lewis George has said, multiple times, that she believes that Lafayette and Shepherd should be re-routed to Ward 4 middle-high schools. Similarly, the city has NEVER and would NEVER commit to keeping ANY school within ANY middle-high school pattern in perpetuity. Ask Crestwood parents.

DCPS did state that Lafayette and Shepherd wouldn't be moved out of the Wilson boundary during multiple meetings. It's possible that JLG said what you indicated, but I missed it. Do you have any links?

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Anonymous wrote:Easier for Bowser to throw shade than make tough decisions about DCPS. You know, govern.

Ok — so what exactly would have been the “tough” decision for her to have made with respect to this?

Re-draw some boundaries so schools are not overcrowded. Too politically difficult.

Is that what people in the Lafayette zone actually want? To shrink the geographic size of the zone and shift kids in it to other zones?

Of course they don't want that, because logic would dictate that white Lafayette kids get sent across the park in such a scenario, which would make the Lafayette Karens lose their minds.

So lazy. So misogynistic.

Hi Karen.

And proud of being lazy and misogynistic.

Good thing that term is going the way of others used to try to shut up women in years past. You’re on the wrong side, my friend.

I guarantee you were one of the people who fought the Military Road school the loudest and demanded that DC buy a building that wasn't for sale so that wealthy white people like yourself could continue to self segregate.

Enjoy your trailers and the loss of PK at Lafayette. You've certainly earned it

It sounds like you don’t go to Lafayette, but this issue of claimed overcrowding really bothers you. Why do you care?

Because it bothers me when wealthy, privileged white people are offered a perfectly reasonable solution to a problem, reject that solution out of hand because of nebulous, ever-changing reasons, demand a completely unreasonable alternative (buying a building that wasn't even for sale) and then whine like children when the city says no. Their kids and my kid will soon be going to the same school, and I don't want anything to do with them.

I can confirm that your kids can get through all years at Lafayette and you can mostly avoid these people. It's harder in the early years because of the social element for the kids. But you don't have to go to any auctions or participate in any adult social activities and your kids will be just fine. At least you figured it out before you got there.

Lafayette parent here and I don't see how you're able to avoid these awful people (mostly moms plus a few hysterical dads) unless your kid doesn't do any activities outside of school and you don't volunteer. I guess that would fix the problem but that's not the best way to build a community.

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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.

I actually don't think it's the biggest deal to not have a larger public pre-k in one of the most affluent areas. "Inconvenient" means inconvenient, not impossible or catastrophic. My point is that saying you don't want this because it's inconvenient isn't cover for something more nefarious. I, personally, would not use a school that is miles in the wrong direction and would instead use a private preschool (of which there are plenty in CCDC). I would feel the same if I lived eotp and took North Capitol to work, as I used to, and was zoned for Lafayette.

Actually there aren’t “many” private preschool options IN CCDC. There are places like CCBC but even that is 5-12 min drive depending on what part of CC you’re in. Then a commute downtown would look the same as a drop off at free Military Road drop off then southbound downtown. But something about an East then south commute makes people allergic compared to a west then south commute.

Because it means crossing town twice, at rush hour. What road on the east side is as convenient as Connecticut for getting to K St/Farragut North? There isn't one.

Why can’t you go down 16th?

Because it has a million stop lights and fewer lanes, and CT goes basically directly to my office.

I’m sure you can make it work for one year. Otherwise pay for preschool.

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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.

The choices were 1) Move Lafayette PK to the Military Road building and expand PK or 2) Reduce/eventually eliminate Lafayette PK. Expanding or even keeping the same slots for PK at the current building or purchasing the building that wasn't even for sale but some parents waaaaaanted wasn't ever on the table.