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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The grandfathering is not about who was grandfathered.

It is about overcrowding.  Take those lovely children a put them in a less crowded school.   After you are at capacity - every additional body stresses a system.

Sort of like how the bubble class at Janney (current 9th graders) broke the system.  They are all lovely children when you have 20 of them in a classroom.   But when you put 30 -the room is overcapacity and things break down[/quote]

That PP (perhaps it was you) was being plain old racist. Period. The grandfathering led to about 20 extra kids. To blame the current behavior on that is just wrong. Brookland middle and Dunbar high are well under enrolled and they have similar issues. PERIOD. Stop using this excuse as cover for your racism. The problem is you were wrong as those 20 kids are predominantly white and contributing to a lot of the success at Deal/Wilson that you like to brag about. [/quote]

+1. Complaining about overcrowding is a cover for racism. Some Lafayette parents are doing it too regarding OOB kids coming from EOTP. We see through their not-so-covert attempts to hide their racism.[/quote]

NP - Overcrowding is real and is projected by DCPS to get worse very soon in the Wilson feeder system. Overcrowded schools are less effective at educating students, more expensive to operate, more chaotic, lead to higher rates of teacher burnout, and are potentially dangerous. Simply conflating concern that DCPS needs a plan to handle overcrowding with racism is ignorant and inflammatory. Please be more careful with your accusations. That said, I agree the grandfathering plays only a small role in the current overcrowding situation and really has nothing to do with the recent fight.[/quote]

Stop covering for racism. Most of what you say isn't even true and is just a pretext to keep up the discrimination.

Note how the W3EdNet group ranted about overcrowding for years and tried to get EOTP schools kicked out of the Deal-Wilson feeder. They made racist remarks so we don't have to guess at their (your?) intentions. You never wondered why they never ranted against those Ward 4 Lafayette kids going to school with their kids? Or why the Janney and Hearst parents were foaming at the mouth demanding that Shepherd and Bancroft get kicked out of the feeder pattern?

Then DCPS proposed moving schools out of the Wilson feeder pattern and it looked like Janney and Hearst might be the ones moved out. Suddenly the leader of the W3EdNet group changed his mind and declared that we don't even really know if Deal and Wilson are crowded so no need to move anyone out of the boundary.

This is how I know it's racism. But you come on over here EOTP and go door to door explaining to black families in person why they need to leave their in boundary schools and how it's not racist.[/quote]

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