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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We are starting PK there in the fall and I feel like we won the lottery just in time for everything to go completely off the rails. I am extremely apprehensive about MV at this point, and wondering if we haven't made a tremendous mistake giving up our spot at our happy neighborhood school w/ stable, effective leadership and a teacher that we love. I hope to God the bilingual thing is worth it, and that we haven't just voluntarily signed our kid up for a bad experience.[/quote]

If you really dislike it, can't you just return to your neighborhood school for K? [/quote]

Yes, except that if MV doesn't work out, we're leaving DC. We need a bigger place, and I can't buy a $1.XM house without some confidence in what's going to happen w/ the schools- we're in Shaw, and the future for the middle school there is, at best, unclear. All of which is to say, she'll have to go to a 2nd new school in 2 yrs if MV isn't a good fit. And yes, she's young, and yes, she'll recover, but it's a lot to put on a kid.

Between this and the situation w/ Shaw Middle School (the Mayor's office actively stoking racial resentment), I am feeling really spent. All of this uncertainty and upset is pretty avoidable if you just move into Arlington or MoCo. Which I do not want to do, for all the reasons no one on this site wants to, but man, it is a LOT of stress and worry to take on voluntarily.[/quote]

Please give example of how the mayor’s office is stoking racial resentment? This rhetoric is getting old.[/quote]

Read this for both sides of the Shaw/Banneker issue https://dcist.com/story/19/05/28/after-fierce-debate-d-c-council-votes-to-swap-sites-for-banneker-high-and-shaw-middle-schools/[/quote]

I attended a "parents outreach" meeting at our (75%+ minority) school where the rep from the Mayor's office said that they interpret the fact that only 19% of in-boundary kids attend the current middle school at Cardozo to be evidence that we do not want to send our kids to school with Black kids, and that therefore there is no demand for a true Shaw Middle School. To say this to a group of parents that CURRENTLY send their kids to a school that is something like 40% Black, 35% Hispanic, 30% White is ridiculous on its face and is a transparently bad-faith argument.

To the poster who added the link above, thank you. I also recommend this piece: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/05/22/dc-mayor-bowser-is-playing-an-old-game-we-beat-it-once-we-can-again/?utm_term=.9708e01fc2a4

And a quote from Councilman Kenyon McDuffie, from tonight's article in the Post:
Council member Kenyan R. McDuffie (D-Ward 5), who supported Banneker’s move to the Shaw site, said in an interview that this was an important vote but that it should not have pitted two communities against each other.

“The stakes are high and should remain high,” he said. “But the complexity of the issue should not have been reduced to the binary choice between whether you support black or brown kids or a gentrifying neighborhood of Shaw.”

I would only add that supporting the gentrifying neighborhood of Shaw IS ALSO supporting black and brown kids. Anyway, the vote has been taken and I hope the Banneker kids get an awesome school out of it, but there was no reason it had to happen at the cost of ripping the heart out of our neighborhood. Pitting the two communities against each other was hugely cynical and corrosive to the long-term health of the city at large.

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Still don’t see where her office stoked racial resentment. One’s interpretation doesn’t equal what’s PP said. You’re no better than what she’s being accused of.[/quote]

DP: it's clear that that rep was stoking racial tensions -- exactly the same way you are.[/quote]

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