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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’m glad to see this happening, and my kids attend Janney (and one of them will be there for a while). We can’t claim to care about equity broadly and then oppose new housing because it might add one or two kids to our children’s classrooms. [/quote]

The Janney district likely will be cut back anyway with some in-Janney areas shifted to other schools.  The enrollment issue will be taken care of that way.[/quote]

Personally, I'd probably rather they just kept the boundaries as they are -- better to walk my kids to an overcrowded school nearby than have to drive them to a less crowded one a little farther from our house.[/quote]

Adding affordable housing in Tenleytown is a desirable goal, but John Eaton would be a better fit than Janney as a school assignment for new residents.  DCPS plans to add additional services for at-risk children at Eaton because it is the designated school for the Ward 3 family homeless shelter.[/quote]

More than one school can have services for at-risk kids. Most schools in DCPS serve a lot more, and a lot higher percentage, than either Janney or Eaton. And Janney's ability to fundraise for the extras is almost unparalleled in DCPS, so I'm sure the PTA can help with things that are needed even more than at most schools.[/quote]

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