Reply to The Wilson pool is still closed: what a travesty, and it’s Muriel Bowser’s fault.

Forum Index » Metropolitan DC Local Politics

Reply to "The Wilson pool is still closed: what a travesty, and it’s Muriel Bowser’s fault."

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As to the bolded, you guys literally *just* got an additional high school to avoid anyone being redistricted out of the only coveted by-right high school in the District.  Take a breath and stop feeling sorry for yourself.  There are zero freaking labor and delivery wards east of the river, you can trade lap swimming for jumping jacks for a season without the hair shirt.[/quote]

This shows you don’t understand the situation at all. There is plenty of room at Jackson-Reed for all in-boundary students from both Hardy and Deal. No in-boundary families needed to be redistricted at all. There’s even plenty of room there for all in-boundary students and hundreds of out-of-boundary students at Jackson-Reed. What there wasn’t room for was all the in-boundary students and the 700+ out-of-boundary students D.C. was sending there.

Jackson-Reed was overcrowded - the the point where kids were having classes in utility rooms - because D.C. policies had it stuffed with OOB students, with the in-bound Ward 3 students suffering. MacArthur was opened because instead of lowering the percentage of non-Ward 3 students in Ward 3 schools, the city decided it would rather kick out some in-bound (and OOB) students from Jackson-Reed so that Ward 3 had two hybrid local/commuter high schools, instead of one local highschool.

The whole purpose of MacArthur is to help the non-Ward 3 students going to Ward 3 for school, at the expense of local Ward 3 students.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics