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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]  just watched this video.  Very upsetting.[/quote]

+1. He’s completely delusional. He’s basing his policy choices on the fact that a work colleague CHOSE to live in a different neighborhood 40 years ago?  We’re all getting punished because of this foggy memory which may or may not be true?  This is scary stuff. [/quote]

Ward 3 residents voted for a guy who campaigned on making your quality of life worse. Sadly, he’s good at his job and delivering on his promise. [/quote]

I voted for the Republican. I have to live with my neighbors choices, but hoping next time they'll consider alternatives to Bernie Sanders type representation.[/quote]

The republican was an awful candidate and barely mentioned crime on his platform.  Nice guy and I spoke to him at length, but he wasn’t running to win.

His campaign was heavy on no bike lanes…yeah, some people are passionate for or against, but 95% of us don’t care.

[b]He also spent a ton of time promoting charter schools.  I pointed out that 90% of Ward 3 is DCPS or private and we don’t have any charters in Ward 3.  Told him again just not a compelling issue for Ward 3.[/b]

He claims he is really an independent and only ran Republican because the Republican Party refuses to stand down and not run somebody and endorse an independent.  As a result, if he was independent he would split the vote with a republican.
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Charter schools are an important part of DC's public educational system.  And there is (and historically has been) a Ward 3 cohort at Washington Latin.  A number of Ward 3 students also go to Walls, which while not technically a charter is run like one.[/quote]

Walls isn't remotely run like a charter.  You clearly don't have a kid there.  Sure, the application screens out the riff-raff, and many Ward 3 parents treat it like a free private school (and then get angry when they realize...nope, it isn't)...but it doesn't operate anywhere close to say Basis.[/quote]

In theory DC public schools are allowed to screen out the riff-raff too, through [b]the ability to send discipline- and repeated truancy-problem students who live out of the boundary area back to their "home"[/b] (in boundary) schools.  But DCPS seldom if ever exercises this authority, probably because they are afraid of the political blowback.[/quote]

Does a DCPS school actually have this authority though? To enact a discipline consequence (removal from the school) on a student based on their in-boundary or out-of-boundary status? If two kids get into a fight and one is in boundary and the other is out of boundary andthey are both at the same level of fault, does the in-boundary student get to stay but the out-of-boundary student can be sent back to their home school? [/quote]

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