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What happens is that educated middle income parents who really need good public schools and can't afford private get shafted. Our needs don't ever rate because we're not important enough that we need to be satisfied and no politician gets virtue points for ensuring our children are stimulated and safe in school.[b] We're the ones who get sent away with "your kids will be fine[/b]..."[/quote]

100% right. And, as a former DCPS teacher in a Cap Hill middle school, that’s verbatim how admin and teachers discuss IB kids. There’s a reason I live in Virginia.

Public schools, especially DCPS, is like an emergency room in constant triage mode. Unless you’re bleeding out, we can’t pay attention to you. I hate it, but I had to approach it like that too.

So… *shrug*? Either sit in the waiting room with an ice pack or move bc it’s not changing anytime soon. Those attitudes are entrenched. [/quote]

You hear this all of the time from CC and Shepard Park peeps - we earned our passport to Ward 3, Brightwood and Petworth - you’ll be fine, keep it moving. So it’s not just coming from the mayor. [/quote]

I don't understand the folks that want to push Shepherd to Coolidge. Coolidge is slated to be more over-crowded than Jackson Reed. Anyone that continues that narrative is doing so for racial motivations IMO because it doesn't make sense with the numbers. What they should have done was made space at Walter Reed for a new middle and/or high for Shepherd and Lafayette. Lost opportunity.[/quote]

So, cuckoo. The people pushing it the loudest are POC and MC parents in Ward 4 who are sick off the antics of CC/SP parents and not having a strong cohort within Ward 4 because CC/SP quite literally think they are better than everyone else. Resources follow UMC parents. It’s not rocket science. Coolidge is majority OOB, so the boundary recommendations could include caping OOB across the board. City can add seats at Wells/Coolidge if they want to with buildouts/trailers. [/quote]

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