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[quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]
Oh, so he's going to make Wilson accept anyone who lives in SW, Navy Yard, Crestwood, Shepherd Park, etc. AND everyone who attends Deal or Hardy or Adams until Eastern, Roosevelt, and Coolidge are on par with it?  He better start planning a budget that allows for an expansion.  Or does he just mean that he'll do that for one more year while those schools develop improvement plans (not like they've never had any improvement plans before...haven't we been through over a decade of No Child Left Behind) and then implement boundary changes after that, whether the schools improve much or not?[/quote]

If your goal is simply to relieve overcrowding by any means necessary with no concern with what happens to those who lose access, Catania is probably not your man. I'm not sure Bowser will be your woman, for that matter. But, if you think that confidence-building measures that gain community buy-in for boundary changes will achieve the same goal without causing widespread alienation from DCPS, then I suggest you take a closer look at Catania.
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I probably will vote for Catania.  I think he's mean but smart, and Bowser is nice[r] but dumb.  I'll choose smart.  They're probably equally corrupt.

I have a lot of concern for people who lose access to Wilson.  I'm one of them and I am PISSED, though I feel fortunate to have the financial resources to move to Wilson's new boundary or out of DC should I feel it necessary in the future.  However, I have absolutely no hope in Catania's ability to "gain community buy-in for boundary changes....without causing widespread alienation from DCPS."  Rhee, Abby Smith, Gray, Kaya, etc. etc. have tried to sell Ward 6 on Eastern and most people aren't having it; what makes Catania think he can get buy-in?

I'm probably more willing than the average person in my neighborhood to try out sub-par schools and see how things go, so if he can't convert me, he's going to have a tough time with most of my neighbors.  And there is nothing he can do to make me feel that Eastern is a better option than Wilson, except possibly solve poverty, economic inequality, and generational patterns of trauma and abuse throughout DC.  He might be a smart guy, but he ain't that smart.  Given that, I say let's rip off the bandaid and make the changes starting in 2015-6, as scheduled.  Don't rebuild and restart the lottery in February or something.  Let it run and then tweak the boundaries in a year or two using the guidelines in the DME's plan.[/quote]

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