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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][b]The problem with this whole "fighting the boundary changes" is that is it not motivated on what is best for Brent, Ward 6 or the entire school system. Rather the motivation is for a small number of families to get a seat at Brent.[/b]

What is best for Brent is a smaller boundary for a couple of reasons.  First, Brent can accommodate more OOB families.  Second, Brent can better control class sizes while keeping the playground and great specials spaces. And third, families who did not get seats at Brent can be motivated to put in some good hard work at other elementary schools.

Many families went to Brent when Brent was a Title 1 school (and not really all that well run) and worked tirelessly to improve the school. This new/current preschool cohort can certainly do the same.[/quote]

This exact same thing could be said of the small group of families advocating for SWS proximity preference.[/quote]

+1.  at brent the advocating families include many who spent their lifesavings on down payments for 700k+ homes in the school district so their kids could attend[/quote]

Newsflash: [i]everyone[/i] spends their savings on down payments for the best houses they can afford.  This is not a phenomenon only relevant to families near Brent.   :roll: [/quote]

Just goes to show that families renting IB may have outsmarted Brandon, Dave and all of their affluent white lawyer neighbors. The type A's at Lafayeete who are at norisk of being redistricted and thus[b] losing their precious feeds to Deal and Wilson[/b] -- setting aside whether this is the gold standard to which to aspire -- are hardly a shing example to emulate.  At least we are not being urged to sign meaningless petitions, yet.[/quote]

2nd time I've read that on this thread and it continues to make no sense at all.  For one thing, Lafayette is about a mile from Deal & Wilson.  There is literally nowhere to redistrict them to, unless you can get Montgomery County to provide their feeder schools.  There is only one other DCPS MS WotP, and that's Hardy, several miles away.  There is no other HS.  Before Lafayette were to lose Deal, both Shepherd and Eaton will be jettisoned first.  And Wilson?  The only schools closer to Wilson are Janney, Murch, and Hearst.  EVERY other feeder will lose Wilson before Lafayette does.

I'm not a Lafayette parent, btw.  I'm just baffled by someone's inability to look at a map and draw logical conclusions.  [/quote]

Hey smartass, which part of "at no risk" didn't you understand?  I suppose if you graduated from some DCPS schools reading comprehension might be a challenge. [/quote]

Just because you can't maintain a continuous thought for a mere 4 pages, doesn't give you a pass to be a raging bitch to those of us who can.

[i]"[url=http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/45/305470.page#3552350]IB parents on the PreS3 waiting list are getting organized because we're the ones likely to be cut out of Brent for K if boundaries change. At Lafayette, parents from PreK to the upper grades are organizing because their feed to Deal (and Wilson) is on the chopping block[/url]."[/i]

[i][url=http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/60/305470.page#3552409]In the event you were not aware, a swath of the Brent district is actually zoned for Wilson, which like the Lafayette feed, likely will be on the chopping block. [/url]The same can be said for middle school. Will VanNess feed to Jefferson, EH or both? Even though neither is a viable option for most Brent parents at this point, the spaces at Latin and BASIS are not finite, and many cannot afford privates. Forest for the trees.[/i]

[i]*Lafayette's school boundaries working group is the model. The difference between the Brent and Lafayette on the school boundaries front is that at the former, it's mainly rising families who are concerned about possible changes, while at the latter,[url=http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/75/305470.page#3553776] it's the whole school (because of the threat to the Deal and Wilson feeds[/url]). [/i]

[i]Nobody expects DCPS to tell parents anything special, but [url=http://www.dcurbanmom.com/jforum/posts/list/75/305470.page#3553776]it couldn't hurt to learn from Lafayette's working group. They've collected more than 1,000 signatures on a petition [/url]asking for their boundaries to stay the same (although their school is at least 300 kids over capacity). They've also met with half the DC City Council in search of more info/insight. [/i]

Obviously it's better to be a smartass than a dumbass, dumbass. [/quote]

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