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And the kids in many of those 10 story apartments would all crowd into Janney.[/b]  But so what, as long as GDS, the Aces and their developer cronies get to pocket the profits...[/quote]

Umm. Yeah. Kids living on apartments get to go to "your" neighborhood public school.

Is that what this is all about, now that the neighborhood has taken back Janney and mostly rid itself of out of bound kids, let's make sure they don't get back in by buying or renting an apartment three blocks from the school?  I've been reading this ridiculous NIMBY chain for months now and finally realized what it's about. Should have figured, given the neighborhood's sorry history on race. [/quote]

Yes. The Tenleytown "citizens associations" lobbied for DC's governors to use eminent domain to bulldoze the African-American Fort Reno neigbhorhood and build the then-white-only Wilson high school and Deal junior high, as well as the park. At the same time, all of the lovely new developments were selling houses replete with restrictive covenants.  The result was a saran wrapped white suburb within a city.  But the city keeps encroaching and the neighbors keep pushing back. The latest threat is apartment kids going to Janney--and so soon after the school flipped back to being overwhelmingly in-bounds.

I'm willing to bet there wouldn't be nearly the same pushback if the new Wisconsin Avenue development was offices---or residences only for high-income or elderly people, who won't change the neighborhood school makeup.

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