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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We, as in Wilson-feeder in boundary families, need to face reality, grow up, and move forward for the sake of every single child in the District. Every. Single. One.

Reality Check: Privilege. Just because we can use it to our personal advantage, doesn't mean we should.

Cramped classrooms? Property values? Quantifiable "diversity"? Secret "sweetheart leases" for special ed school? Parking?

Seriously? What is the absolute WORST thing that can happen in a crowded classroom in an already high-performing school your kid can walk to without getting shot from your home that you won't get evicted from because you don't have to work an hourly job on the frontlines of a pandemic that may not be over by the time the paint is dry on the three new public school properties in spitting distance from each other.

Shame on us.

Public education will never be good enough until every kiddo has a good education.

Time for a ceasefire in the Battle for Foxhall. This is not the only problem in DC education. None of us are facing the existential crises of the "diverse" and "at risk" kids we're pretending to care about just to prove we're not racist elites.

Since nothing will physically change for at least a year, how about we -- the supposed adults in the room -- put our zoom calls and forum posts on hold for the summer. Here's a family learning project you can do instead.

-Pick any traditional high school but Wilson
-Imagine this is your only option, no lottery, no private, no moving
-Find a DCPS feeder for your youngest and research it on the internet at home (bonus points if you use only a prepaid phone or public library)
-Choose your top 5 priorities. (Or just 2 or 3) 
-Translate everything into Amharic or Vietnamese

What do you do next? Whom do you tweet? Where do you post? How do you get a printed copy of PDFs and zoom transcripts to know what happened at the meetings you missed cleaning the cleaning the ER floor at Georgetown hospital.

Still with us? Good. Because an unaccompanied 15 year old girl from your hometown needs a sponsor AND to enroll in a school with ELL and trauma support.

This NOT an exaggeration. This is reality. I know from working directly with DCPS. (Can't say how. I'm not authorized.)

I've always appreciated that there were involved parents in our feeder pattern who advocate for kids like mine. But it's going too far.

Please, all I'm asking is that during pandemic crisis, we take up less space with our wants and give voice to our neighbors' children's needs.

We'll get through this. Others may not. How do you want your kids to feel about that? What will you tell them you did about it? [/quote]

The people who deliver these types of lectures are usually the worst offenders of what they're lecturing about. Guessing this is the case here.[/quote]

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