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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“Do you remember at the big meeting last fall when the Hyde-Addison parents met with Mayor Muriel Bowser to object to busing our children for over an hour to a substitute school the next two years while our school is being renovated?” asked Elissa Alben, the mother of three Hyde-Addison Public Elementary School students, aged 4, 7 and 9.

“The mayor told us we had only two options. One, busing the some-300 students ages 4 to 9 for over an hour each day across town to a school in another zone that needs renovation itself. Or two, wait a year and have the children bused to D.C. University, where the city will fix up space for them. The mayor told us parents, ‘You let me know which one you decide.’”

[b]Alben took a sip of coffee at Via Umbria last Saturday and shook her head.[/b]

http://www.georgetowner.com/articles/2017/mar/06/hyde-addison-parents-start-new-school/[/quote]

But she says they decided it would have be ok to delay a year and swing to UDC, which is further away and would take just as long to get to on a bus.

Putting aside what that decision would have done to all the other renovation projects in the city, this just shows their biases. It's not about distance. These parents simply are scaraed to send their kid to a less wealthy part of town, that happens to have more black and brown folks.

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