Schools cause PoP to leave Petworth

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think this is so silly. He could have entered the lotteries for next year when his child is actually 3. See what happens. Every first child has their best chance for charter admission at PK3. Then, if the child didn't get in anywhere, or anywhere acceptable, pay for day care another year and try it again. There's no guarantee for PK4 even at a WOTP school. seems like such an uninformed decision.

+1! it's also a somewhat common reflexive decision among younger parents navigating schools for their first born. Rather than taking the time to invest in a school early and understand if it's workable they decamp for the seemingly sure thing. That used to mean MoCo, Arlington or Fairfax, and now upper NW is considered an acceptable option. Plus Petworth is well located for many HRCS, but some parents have philosophical issues with charters for public ed.

I read that as dumping on Bruce Monroe. Maybe sour grapes over losing Powell. If you don't kiss his ass he deletes comments on his site in a hypersensitive manner which is kind of sad. He can't handle DCUM

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think this is so silly. He could have entered the lotteries for next year when his child is actually 3. See what happens. Every first child has their best chance for charter admission at PK3. Then, if the child didn't get in anywhere, or anywhere acceptable, pay for day care another year and try it again. There's no guarantee for PK4 even at a WOTP school. seems like such an uninformed decision.

+1! it's also a somewhat common reflexive decision among younger parents navigating schools for their first born. Rather than taking the time to invest in a school early and understand if it's workable they decamp for the seemingly sure thing. That used to mean MoCo, Arlington or Fairfax, and now upper NW is considered an acceptable option. Plus Petworth is well located for many HRCS, but some parents have philosophical issues with charters for public ed.

I read that as dumping on Bruce Monroe. Maybe sour grapes over losing Powell. If you don't kiss his ass he deletes comments on his site in a hypersensitive manner which is kind of sad. He can't handle DCUM

Uhhh no, you don't have to kiss his ass. He, does however, frequently delete comments form a**holes.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PoP seems like a good guy, but he is fun to needle and an easy target. Kind of like our own loveable Jeff.

Not really. Jeff seems WAY cooler fwiw

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think this is so silly. He could have entered the lotteries for next year when his child is actually 3. See what happens. Every first child has their best chance for charter admission at PK3. Then, if the child didn't get in anywhere, or anywhere acceptable, pay for day care another year and try it again. There's no guarantee for PK4 even at a WOTP school. seems like such an uninformed decision.

+1! it's also a somewhat common reflexive decision among younger parents navigating schools for their first born. Rather than taking the time to invest in a school early and understand if it's workable they decamp for the seemingly sure thing. That used to mean MoCo, Arlington or Fairfax, and now upper NW is considered an acceptable option. Plus Petworth is well located for many HRCS, but some parents have philosophical issues with charters for public ed.

I read that as dumping on Bruce Monroe. Maybe sour grapes over losing Powell. If you don't kiss his ass he deletes comments on his site in a hypersensitive manner which is kind of sad. He can't handle DCUM

Uhhh no, you don't have to kiss his ass. He, does however, frequently delete comments form a**holes.

like you? or himself?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:At least he is not Petrelli, writing a book about school diversity and then moving to Montgomery County.

Yes, that was awful.

Why? Did he say that parents had an obligation to send their kids to diverse schools, even in a world where most schools were not diverse? Or was it a descriptive book, or one about public policy?

"The Diverse Schools Dilemma: A Parent's Guide to Socioeconomically Mixed Public Schools"

http://www.amazon.com/The-Diverse-Schools-Dilemma-Socioeconomically-ebook/dp/B009F32Z2E

It sounds from the blurb like he did NOT say that parents had an obligation to send their kids to diverse schools. Ergo, I do not see why it is awful that he moved to Bethesda.

[Anonymous]

No, he deletes way more comments than Jeff. He's deleted enough comments on this topic to make the posting on his departure look like an episode of Friends.

What Jeff has here may be more full of a-hole comments, but it's a lot more real & informed.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:C'mon people. Despite what he said on his blog, I am sure that the last year's spike in violent crime, including some notable incidents in Petworth (several daytime shootings with people and children walking around), played a role in their decision to move.

I do not see why you would be sure. As he stated, he has been there 12 years, and it is certainly safer now than it was 12 years ago. And the schools issue is quite enough for a move to make sense - Occam's Razor suggests no need to speculate on other motivation.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:At least he is not Petrelli, writing a book about school diversity and then moving to Montgomery County.

Yes, that was awful.

Why? Did he say that parents had an obligation to send their kids to diverse schools, even in a world where most schools were not diverse? Or was it a descriptive book, or one about public policy?

"The Diverse Schools Dilemma: A Parent's Guide to Socioeconomically Mixed Public Schools"

http://www.amazon.com/The-Diverse-Schools-Dilemma-Socioeconomically-ebook/dp/B009F32Z2E

It sounds from the blurb like he did NOT say that parents had an obligation to send their kids to diverse schools. Ergo, I do not see why it is awful that he moved to Bethesda.

people should live wherever the hell they want. he has no obligation

but as a community oriented blog that makes a big deal of promoting neighborhoods he totally dumped on his neighborhood schools, whether that was the intention or not.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:I think this is so silly. He could have entered the lotteries for next year when his child is actually 3. See what happens. Every first child has their best chance for charter admission at PK3. Then, if the child didn't get in anywhere, or anywhere acceptable, pay for day care another year and try it again. There's no guarantee for PK4 even at a WOTP school. seems like such an uninformed decision.

+1! it's also a somewhat common reflexive decision among younger parents navigating schools for their first born. Rather than taking the time to invest in a school early and understand if it's workable they decamp for the seemingly sure thing. That used to mean MoCo, Arlington or Fairfax, and now upper NW is considered an acceptable option. Plus Petworth is well located for many HRCS, but some parents have philosophical issues with charters for public ed.

I read that as dumping on Bruce Monroe. Maybe sour grapes over losing Powell. If you don't kiss his ass he deletes comments on his site in a hypersensitive manner which is kind of sad. He can't handle DCUM

Sour grapes over losing access to a school that is 5% white. This puts him in a tiny minority of upper income whites in terms of his embrace of diversity, as far as can tell. Attacking him for this really does seem like ideological purism.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No, he deletes way more comments than Jeff. He's deleted enough comments on this topic to make the posting on his departure look like an episode of Friends.

What Jeff has here may be more full of a-hole comments, but it's a lot more real & informed.

There is plenty of solid info there, and also plenty of debate in the comments. Just fewer trolls.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:No, he deletes way more comments than Jeff. He's deleted enough comments on this topic to make the posting on his departure look like an episode of Friends.

What Jeff has here may be more full of a-hole comments, but it's a lot more real & informed.

There is plenty of solid info there, and also plenty of debate in the comments. Just fewer trolls.

Any discussion of how some parents leave "because of the demographics" was deleted. That's not trolling - it's an ugly truth that he's choosing to wash from his board. His choice, but I don't have any respect for that.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:At least he is not Petrelli, writing a book about school diversity and then moving to Montgomery County.

Yes, that was awful.

Why? Did he say that parents had an obligation to send their kids to diverse schools, even in a world where most schools were not diverse? Or was it a descriptive book, or one about public policy?

"The Diverse Schools Dilemma: A Parent's Guide to Socioeconomically Mixed Public Schools"

http://www.amazon.com/The-Diverse-Schools-Dilemma-Socioeconomically-ebook/dp/B009F32Z2E

It sounds from the blurb like he did NOT say that parents had an obligation to send their kids to diverse schools. Ergo, I do not see why it is awful that he moved to Bethesda.

people should live wherever the hell they want. he has no obligation

but as a community oriented blog that makes a big deal of promoting neighborhoods he totally dumped on his neighborhood schools, whether that was the intention or not.

First of all the comment above yours was about Pirelli, not about DS. You are getting confused.

Secondly, DS runs a blog that talks about neighborhoods across DC, from Anacostia to Upper NW.

Thirdly he did not dump on Bruce Monroe, he chose to send his CHILDREN to a school where he (and his wife, who for some reason people are ignoring - perhaps she did not like Bruce Monroe?) thought they would do well. No one is obligated to use their children to communicate something. No one.

[Anonymous]

Dan has clearly never been interested in learning about DC schools, beyond generically crowd-sourcing questions as an excuse to garner comments. No shame in that, as it is common for people without kids.

Now that he has kids, he moved on just as so many have before.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:No, he deletes way more comments than Jeff. He's deleted enough comments on this topic to make the posting on his departure look like an episode of Friends.

What Jeff has here may be more full of a-hole comments, but it's a lot more real & informed.

Yeah, the Prince deleted several of my more acerbic comments in the past (which I thought were more entertaining than offensive to the public), while Jeff clearly cares more about freedom of expression here. That does not mean I am not an asshole (I probably AM an asshole on many occasions), but it does mean DCUM is more fun to read than PoPville, imo. Kudos to Jeff. Frowns on the Prince, or the Viscount, or whatever. Make more money Jeff.

[Anonymous]

He's also deleted several comments about gentrification and education in DC. Say what you want about Jeff, he rarely deletes the ugly truth.