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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You know, don’t you, that 1500 new homes are under construction in just two blocks around Wisconsin and Van Ness?   I assume that the developer is paying a special assessment to add another public school in Upper NW?  [/quote]

Upper NW doesn't need another public school nor does DC.

The DC Council needs to re-draw the boundaries and relocate students to the grossly under-enrolled public schools EOTP.[/quote]

You obviously don't have kids. The reason there are schools that are "grossly under-enrolled" is because they are completely terrible schools that should probably be shut down. If you have kids (and if you don't have kids, you should STFU about schools) you know it's hard to find good schools in DC. Why do you think Wilson High School is bigger than many colleges? [/quote]

Actually I do have kids - one already through Wilson with another 2 years behind.

When we moved to Ward 3 more than 20 years many people in Ward 3 didn't send their kids to the neighborhood schools at all and among those who did many pulled their kids after ES or bailed for the suburbs.

Hearst and Eaton were almost entirely OOB and even Janney and Murch (which had half of todays enrollment) had significant OOB populations and Hardy's entire student body used to be OOB.

The biggest determinant of how good public schools are is the SES of the families who attend them.

There are now a slew of Upper Middle class families living EOTP who could easily be moved to public schools in their own neighborhoods and that would immediately solve the crowding issues in Ward 3 and those student bodies would be just as wealthy as Deal & Wilson.

So yeah why don't you STFU - my kids attended Deal & Wilson when both were actually a lot more diverse than they are today and way more diverse when your snowflakes will arrive in a few years.

And this is why I get really pissed about this - both schools are rapidly losing the diversity they used to have which no doubt pleases johnny come latelies to Ward 3 like you - the only way these schools can retain any economic diversity is if the large block of upper class kids who are currently concentrated there get split out into another school cluster and then both clusters can actually accept more low income OOB students.

The current dispute about the Deal & Wilson boundaries isn't a fight between upper class Ward 3 parents and lower income families from Wards 7 & 8 - it is a dispute between upper class Ward 3 parents and upper class Ward 4 parents from Crestwood and Mt Pleasant and Shepherd Park who should be attending public schools in their own neighborhoods.

The boundaries need to be re-drawn regardless.

And Ward 3 should have more population density on its commercial corridors.
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Are you for real? You sent your kids to Deal and Wilson? Two of the most desirable schools in the city? And you think that other people in poorer neighborhoods should be forced to send their kids to Garbage High? Something you never deigned to do? In hopes that their mere presence will magically transform those schools? Please. You're as bad as the people who don't have kids opining on schools. If you don't have skin in the game, you should stop talking. [/quote]

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