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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a ward 3 parent I am getting a bit tired of hearing I can see it from my house/ it is two blocks from my house arguments.  There is a larger picture of education needs in this city than just your family.

Providing feeder rights is a way to ensure that children that have benefited from the OOB lottery continue on a strong educational path with their elementary school peers.  We need this in this city.  It is equally compelling to me to providing sibling entrance to schools families have been zoned out of a particular school.

I am not an oyster parent/family, but I find the idea of their changed feeder to Cardozo much more disturbing because it it's academic achievement is so far below Wilson.  THAT is unacceptable even though they cannot "see" Wilson from their front yards.

This is the kind of myopic thinking that makes the rest of the city dismiss ward 3 as completely self interested twits.
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Except that the self interested twits pay the lion's share of the tax bills while other spend their time smoking crack[/quote]

Just go ahead and move to the burbs already.  Seriously, I don't want to be neighbors with someone as small minded as you.

The small minded twit position I identified was worrying about a great v great in 2 years school that would apply to families with children not yet in school (because families with children in school will not be moved).  DC has to make decisions for the good of the city. I completely agree that no child should be moved to a lesser performing school, but whining about the importance of walking to school when there are children that trek across the city daily to get access to a decent school (and count themselves lucky to be able to do so)  just doesn't get my sympathy and I doubt it will get the sympathy of the majority of voters that, newsflash, do not reside in ward 3.

Worst case scenario for my family is that my kids may have to go to Hardy and if they cannot get into a magnet may have to go private if we lose the Wilson lottery (or Wilson is not worth attending in 5 years because of stupid decisions by the city).  I am more concerned with actually focusing on what can improve DC schools for more children and less on the fact that a few families may have to walk 8 blocks instead of 3 for elementary school.[/quote]

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