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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What's wrong with walkability? That's what creates communities and allows parents work options that aren't centered on drop off. Driving also isn't environmentally friendly.

These are complex, nuanced discussions. Decisions have repercussions, both intended and unintended. [/quote]

Walkability is a big reason that parents choose to buy in proximity to schools. Lots of us think being able to walk to school and to leave near classmates is a very big part of what makes a school community [/quote]

Walkability is huge!  It’s good for the kids and good for the family’s logistics.[/quote]

right. that’s why the idea that we’re going to solve poverty in DC by getting at-risk families to somehow get their kids to a different sector of the city and home every day on their own (no buses) is absurd. The focus on helping a handful of at-risk families through OOB set asides is 100% optics and has nothing to do with solving problems. ironically it also likely functions as a de facto gifted program for at-risk kids. it’s just the height of 2021 to focus on OOB seats as the solution for at-risk families so motivated that they will figure out a way to get from Ward 8 to Ward 3, as opposed to creating gifted programs in their own schools. [/quote]

This is why DCPS opened Bard Early College HS in ward 7. I personally don’t love the Bard model but I think DCPS wanted to give high achieving students in wards 7 and 8, an option close to where they live[/quote]

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