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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]oversight from the feds has varied over the past 30 years i've lived in DC - some neutral, some positive and some bad.  Depends on who they put in charge.  Someone like Lauch Faircloth for example would not be good - he used it as a campaign prop to show people back home how much he was bashing the District, when we actually give more to the feds than we get unlike many states that voted in the new administration[/quote]

I’ve also lived here for nearly 30 years, and I think we are about to face something unprecedented since the advent of home rule. This will be full-scale fed takeover, with the goal of killing public education in DC. Here’s what I anticipate in the near future:[b] “don’t say gay” type language control, no lessons that involve race, no recognition of non-cis gender identities, end of protections against harassment based on race/gender/identity, prayer/religion in school.[/b] Everything you’ve heard about in Florida and Oklahoma and other states on the vanguard of destroying public education will come here. Anything bad we thought we had seen in terms of past interference will seem minor compared with what’s coming.

My youngest graduates in 2026, so we don’t have much choice but to stick it out. But if I had younger children, I’d be seriously considering a move to Maryland (and we are considering this after our kid graduates). I love this city, and my kids have had good experiences in DCPS. But I think a lot is going to change pretty quickly.[/quote]

Other than prayer/religion...nothing else you mention has much to do with education.  I get it's bad from a society standpoint.

The issue with DC is let's say they create some massive voucher program, there literally is nowhere for anyone to go.  It's not like any private school doesn't already receive significantly more applications than slots.  The private schools that do have slots are at schools that nobody wants to attend (there are lots of private schools nobody has ever heard of because they actually have terrible academic results).[/quote]

there already is a voucher program in DC and it basically doesn’t do much. [/quote]

Because it's means tested and only very few vouchers are available. If it becomes widely available, many middle class families will leave DCPS.[/quote]

Leave DCPS for what? There is a massive supply and demand problem already for DC-area private schools. It’s not as if there’s a bunch of empty seats at Potomac or Landon or NCS. [/quote]

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