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[quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]All of what PP said is true. Additionally, between the rather ugly rhetoric from the Van Ness Parents Group about how desperate they are to exclude students from SW from that school when it reopens and the redistricting of Wilson to be sure that no kids outside affluent NW have any access, it feels very much like DCPS and the affluent parts of the city are mking every effort to constrict the educational opportunities and presence of kids in SW. Certainly there is not a single element of any of the school boundary proposals that have not left kids in SW materially worse off. We'd been thinking we'd go private all along because Amidon's still weak. But now we're really thinking about whether we want our tax dollars to go to DC at all.[/quote]

If it makes you feel any better, my so-called "affluent" Northwest neighborhood is treated similarly to yours. I believe we are the only neighborhood in the entire city to lose by-right access to both Wilson and Deal (some lost access to one or the other). So, if nothing else, I feel your pain.
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Thanks, it does kind of. It's just frustrating to see a set of schools that have really struggled to get closer to good and to serve a student population that doesn't get a lot of attention just have the rug yanked out from under them. I hate it because I really love the little neighborhood down here - it's friendly and neighborly and has an economically diverse set of long term residents, with little of the edge that exists in more gentrifying neighborhoods and it just feels like the city is happily tossing it aside in place of either more dramatically troubled or stridently privleged communities.

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