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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How about not putting kids and teachers in a building that is overcrowded?

Thank you Mayor Bowser for creating a feeder plan that does not support learning.   You had the choice not to "Grandfather" in certain neighborhoods - you decided it was in your best political interest.

There is no way to enforce the policy that if you move to another neighborhood in DC that you get to stay at your current school through the truncating grade.

And every year you make Deal fight for every budget dollar that they get -  I need to check records again - but I believe it is the smallest budget as measured by total school budget per pupil.

Why not give the teachers there and the administration so city wide respect and enable them to do their jobs.  They are trying.[/quote]

Frankly, Bowser grandfathered in all the kids who fight. It's not PC to say this but they're always, year-after-year from those schools.[/quote]

Here's one for the person looking for evidence of racism![/quote]

+1. Which is weird. And also factually wrong. What “schools” were students from Crestwood and 16th St Heights (the only students that were grandfathered) coming from? If PP knew anything about Crestwood, she wouldn’t have been such an idiotic statement. If PP was being overtly racist by implying it’s the black students that fight, then she’s still wrong because black students are either IB (not grandfathered) or in through OOB feeder, most certainly NOT by being grandfathered. The 20 or so grandfathered kids attending Deal from Crestwood are not causing fights. One just won the debate tournament:) [/quote]

We are a family that has benefited from the grandfathered clause. I shake my head and laugh when I read comments like PP upthread. The grandfathered kids are part of the class that is running DC, not causing fights at Deal.[/quote]

I have a "grandfathered" child at both Deal and Wilson, both of whom are solid-A students, well behaved... and very white. Doesn't the earlier poster know anything about the demographics (and house prices!) of Crestwood? Those schools are *very* lucky to have them.[/quote]

+1. There's so much racism WOTP. They don't even know much about these EOTP neighborhoods that some of these WOTP parents love to denigrate or the history of Crestwood as an elite neighborhood long before some of the WOTP neighborhoods were considered elite. I'm a white EOTP parent in boundary for Deal and Wilson, and I'd love for Janney and Hearst to get their own new MS and HS so we can stop hearing about overcrowding.[/quote]

But that would create another WOTP school that’s mostly white. [/quote]

PP you're responding to here. As far as I'm concerned, let them have their white school. Their real problem is racism. They don't want their kids to go to school with a lot of black kids, and they cite "overcrowding" which is the DC dog whistle. I just want these parents out of our schools so they can stop harassing the rest of us. The big issue now is they don't want to start a brand new school and deal with all the issues that brings. They expect everyone who they don't want at Deal and Wilson to just leave so they can have their established schools that are mostly white.[/quote]

Why is it your school?[/quote]

BECAUSE IT'S OUR ASSIGNED SCHOOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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So for the Janney parents, it’s their school, too. Right?[/quote]

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