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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This just means that more seats at the new school will be available for those EOTP. Isn't that the goal? or am I missing something? if it is just intra-ward-3 fights, then who cares? let them do whatever.[/quote]

Upper NW is projected to have too many students in…what 2-3 year like 2,000 more kids vs seats or something. This translates into Deal and Wilson(named changed) being very over crowded. Like people suing DC too crowded. The easy(politically) way to fix this is to push feeding elementary students from Mann to Hardy and make a new High school that takes Hardy. This will relieve pressure on Mann and former Wilson. The cheaper way is to take elementary school west of the park now going to Mann and send them to the middle/high school east of the park in Upper NW.

An elementary school in Foxhall has a lot of problems and does not fix the over crowding issue in upper NW. It is a white elephant. It is a school for the few rich people with kids who live in Foxhall and close by Palisades. The only way you get enough kids is to cut Glover Park in half. The density is a lot higher in Glover Park vs Foxhall. So once Glover Park got wind of it they organized. They are pissed off. Proposed new boundary would make people who live a block away from Stoddert have to drive their kids to Foxhall.

Next up Mann and Key will get proposed new boundary. Mann -everything south of Nebraska will go to the new Foxhall school and Key everything east of Arizona. Basically the same thing they proposed for Glover Park. People will be able to see an elementary school from their house but can not go there. Lol

This is why the New Foxhall Elementary school is circling the drain. [/quote]

The "proposed Stoddert boundary" is one of those untruths that will never die. There never was a proposed Stoddert boundary. DCPS showed a suggestion at one meeting and quickly walked it back.

It is also completely untrue that "The only way you get enough kids is to cut Glover Park in half." That's been debunked so many times but there's a core of dead-enders who just don't want to believe it. [/quote]

If you truly believe there are no plans to cut Glover Park in half -- and that there shouldn't be -- you should support Cheh's resolution.

That would help make up for GP enduring individuals from other neighborhoods gaslighting us on the GP listserv and elsewhere.[/quote]

Stoddert boosters accusing others of gaslighting? Well, hello pot . . .

Glover Park deserves absolutely nothing from the rest of the city. Your community - led by your ANC chair and PTA - have been throwing the most egregious beggar-thy-neighbor tantrums, dreaming up non-existent threats, and spreading falsehoods formulated to deny other community’s the walkable elementary school that you all insist that your community - and only your community - has some divine right to.

Now you’ve gone and got the CM involved in a pathetic attempt to win for yourselves something no one else in the city has. It reminds me of something but I can’t quite remember what. Oh, that’s right, the dear old residents of Chain Bridge Road and University Terrace and their quixotic quest to have the city close their street to through traffic. That worked wonderfully for them, didn’t it? Well, odds are that this is going to end about as well for you all.

Streisand Effect coming at you . . .

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