New River Campus?

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Anonymous wrote:It already is a traffic cluster. The addition of River School wouldn't make it worse.

Of course it will make it worse.

There are plenty of better sites in the city for this sort of project and school. But River wants to be where the money is. That is their new mission.

NIMBY says "better sites somewhere else"

Ok, but the better sites somewhere else aren't available.

This site is.

NIMBY. Pluh-ese. This is a very wealthy private school. Get a clue. This is a residential part of the neighborhood and they are trying to change that - don't forget that.

It is Mass Ave - the "residents" are the green spaces across Mass - and across Van Ness and NPS. The next closest neighbor is AU Law School

Mass Ave - really? Have you looked at a map recently?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It already is a traffic cluster. The addition of River School wouldn't make it worse.

Of course it will make it worse.

There are plenty of better sites in the city for this sort of project and school. But River wants to be where the money is. That is their new mission.

NIMBY says "better sites somewhere else"

Ok, but the better sites somewhere else aren't available.

This site is.

NIMBY. Pluh-ese. This is a very wealthy private school. Get a clue. This is a residential part of the neighborhood and they are trying to change that - don't forget that.

It is Mass Ave - the "residents" are the green spaces across Mass - and across Van Ness and NPS. The next closest neighbor is AU Law School

Mass Ave? Please pull out a map and educate yourself then join the adults for a conversation. Are you missing all those little boxes called "houses" and "neighbors" next too and around the site?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:It already is a traffic cluster. The addition of River School wouldn't make it worse.

Of course it will make it worse.

There are plenty of better sites in the city for this sort of project and school. But River wants to be where the money is. That is their new mission.

Those other sites are in other people's neighborhoods. Why are they better than in your neighborhood?

Sorry, but I think you are missing the point here. It is not that the school is coming to "this neighborhood"; it is that this proposed project, the size and scope are not a good fit for the spot that is being suggested. It is the school great, yes! Is the location great, yes! Are they a good match, not at all.

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Anonymous wrote:A neighbor who backs up to the property that River is looking into wants to stop it and has blanketed the neighborhood with the signs.

I am all for River getting a different location if it enables them to better serve their mission.

Said by someone next directly affected. I have no dog in the fight and love the school mission but also understand that schools keep popping up right in the middle of residential housing and it is not ideal.

This is on the edge of residential housing and more associated with the AU Law School and the Wisconsin Ave Corridor.

Paraphrase the zoning as much as you would like with your edge of residential housing and more associated with the AU Law School and the Wisconsin Ave Corridor. It is a residential lot that the River School is trying to get special exemption for and change into commercial use. There are houses ALL around the site because it is a RESIDENTIAL AREA. Wisconsin Avenue Corridor.....that is laughable.

Public schools are usually in residential areas. Not sure why a private also shouldn’t be in a residential area.

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Anonymous wrote:I imagine they want a location that will attract a certain type of family.

Families of children that are deaf or have hearing loss and now can reach the school via metro?

What percentage of the students are hearing impaired?

People are deaf or hard of hearing. They are not hearing impaired.

It’s like people who need glasses - you aren’t vision impaired, you are near-sighted or far-sighted or have astigmatism.

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It’s just too bad they can’t spread the wealth to other neighborhoods that might benefit from having a good private school. But I guess they all stick together, literally and figuratively. And people wonder why anyone would worry if their low-SES or truly middle class family would fit in at one of these schools.

[Anonymous]

Technically, in person-first language, it's "children with hearing loss".

Seriously, people spend far too much time policing language when there is no ill intent and the terminology is not perjorative.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Technically, in person-first language, it's "children with hearing loss".

Seriously, people spend far too much time policing language when there is no ill intent and the terminology is not perjorative.

I’m the parent of a deaf child (not at River, at another private). Individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing do not use language of “hearing loss.”

It’s not policing language, its informing how to accurately describe this community.

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The River School consistently uses "children with hearing loss" (and sometimes "children with cochlear implants" but some kids at River may have hearing aids or other accommodations not just CIs) on its website and other materials, and the school has an explicit position favoring person-first language.

River doesn't normally use the term "deaf". I am aware that there are people in the deaf community who prefer that term and feel that the use of CIs and other interventions harm the deaf community, because hearing is artificially restored to people who are otherwise unable to hear, thereby reducing the community of those who speak ASL etc. I recognize that some in the deaf community regard River and its use of language to be ableist.

Can't please everyone who is tetchy about language these days.

[Anonymous]

The River School sent out an email to their current families and alumni yesterday to help support their project and to tell the alumni and current families to get actively involved in spreading the word about the project. They specifically said that the signs near the proposed site put up by people who do not want 500+ more cars in the neighborhood every day or massive buildings added to a residential area were wrong. THE SIGNS ARE NOT WRONG they are based on the information that the River School has on their own website.

And guess what? Today, a couple of Big Mercedes SUVs with Maryland plates and heavily coifed blond ladies have been driving around the area River wants to purchase and the surrounding neighborhood taking photos of houses and the people in the yards that have signs and then they have also been removing the signs. Can't prove that they are River people but seems pretty coincidental and definitely not a good vibe for people who want to move into a new neighborhood.

Does Tenleytown want a school that has leaders and current families who attempt to bully the public school parents in the neighborhood into not objecting to them coming to the area and bringing lots of traffic and people when their own kids are just desperate to have in person school this year?

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River School has a lot of rich people who want this property and they don't care what they have to do to get it or who they have to step on. There are several other locations in DC, even in Northwest, that are viable options but River wants what it wants and the rich parents will pay. They are not helping any community with this school. If they were they would locate in some area where they would also have jobs available to neighbors or in a place near Gallaudet to be a feeder if they were a school for the deaf. But they are not. They are a private school that has some speech specialists to help 10-15 percent of their kids who have hearing aids and cochlear implants. Very important for those kids but not a big portion of their population and children who are deaf are not their current population

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:The River School sent out an email to their current families and alumni yesterday to help support their project and to tell the alumni and current families to get actively involved in spreading the word about the project. They specifically said that the signs near the proposed site put up by people who do not want 500+ more cars in the neighborhood every day or massive buildings added to a residential area were wrong. THE SIGNS ARE NOT WRONG they are based on the information that the River School has on their own website.

And guess what? Today, a couple of Big Mercedes SUVs with Maryland plates and heavily coifed blond ladies have been driving around the area River wants to purchase and the surrounding neighborhood taking photos of houses and the people in the yards that have signs and then they have also been removing the signs. Can't prove that they are River people but seems pretty coincidental and definitely not a good vibe for people who want to move into a new neighborhood.

Does Tenleytown want a school that has leaders and current families who attempt to bully the public school parents in the neighborhood into not objecting to them coming to the area and bringing lots of traffic and people when their own kids are just desperate to have in person school this year?

Hope there were Ring video doorbell cameras recording this! That is just terrible!

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Technically, in person-first language, it's "children with hearing loss".

Seriously, people spend far too much time policing language when there is no ill intent and the terminology is not perjorative.

I’m the parent of a deaf child (not at River, at another private). Individuals who are deaf or hard of hearing do not use language of “hearing loss.”

It’s not policing language, its informing how to accurately describe this community.

Genuine question- what is the difference between hard of hearing and hearing loss? In your glasses example, whether you are near or far sighted, you are vision impaired.

[Anonymous]

Funniest thing is that we caught one of the women about to walk onto my yard to take my sign. She ended up saying she was not from River. But when she got back into her car after I asked her to leave my property as she was trespassing, she had a River School magnet on the back of her car.

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Anonymous wrote:Funniest thing is that we caught one of the women about to walk onto my yard to take my sign. She ended up saying she was not from River. But when she got back into her car after I asked her to leave my property as she was trespassing, she had a River School magnet on the back of her car.

Take pictures and post them here!