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[quote=Anonymous][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]

It's difficult to expel a student from his/her 'by right' school.  Out of boundary students attend their schools at the discretion of the school system.  They can be sent back to their home school, but again, it is difficult to expel them from there.[/quote]

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