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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I live in Ward 4 and there are five charters within .5 mile from my house. The closest DCPS school (my inbound school) is over a mile away.

I am very much in favor of this. The amount of traffic generated by parents driving their children to school is ridiculous.[/quote]

Sorry, your convenience and your traffic challenges are NOT reasons to change a basic rule of equal opportunity to all applicants that charter rules in DC were founded upon.  I understand why you want it, but it is wrong in so many ways for the Mayor to propose it and for it to be passed.  I hope it gets nixed again, that would be the right thing to do.[/quote]

NP, who is not affected by the proposal at all in Ward 6. I think you are wrong. I think the PP's convenience, to be more specific, PP's child's convenience and others similarly situated are exactly the reason IN FAVOR of the preference. The by-right school is not walkable and therefore getting the same right to walkability by a preference to a nearby charter is worthwhile, exactly for the convenience factor and so an already disadvantaged child (in terms of walkability to by-right school) isn't further inconvenienced because of traffic challenges.[/quote]

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