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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]the difficulty here is that more than one of these things can be true.

Lafayette can be full.

The Military Road School location is across Rock Creek Park. It's really not close to Lafayette.

Rock Creek Park has been a boundary of residential, racial, social, class, segregation.

The neighborhoods right near Military Road School are also full of students; the building is literally just down 14th from a row of huge apartment buildings and an area with many Spanish-speaking families with needs that include preschool options.

So who's in the wrong for asking for what they want? Who should get scarce resources?

(In my opinion, just mine, I think I'd favor the needs of lower-income families right near the school location over those of Lafayette. BUT when a school like Lafayette is huge, full, and overcrowded - you do have to do SOMETHING.)[/quote]

You clearly don't live near Military ELC.  Brightwood is a stone's throw away and clears its pre-K waitlist every year.  There are charters all around, many undersubscribed.  Our preschools are not full, we have options.  Don't pity us for our huge apartment buildings full of Spanish speakers.  Lafayette didn't turn up their nose at Military out of altruism to underserved communities.  You're saying "who is in the wrong for asking for what they want" but you invented that EOTP parents were asking for the building in the first place.

Lafayette wanted a dedicated preschool to alleviate overcrowding.  They were offered one, but got scared that it was a slippery slope to leaving the Deal-Wilson pattern.  So they declined and instead asked for building that was not for sale.  Now they're back asking why nobody cares about their overcrowding.  The answer is because they didn't seem to care, at least not really.[/quote]

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