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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are already a number of threads on this topic. Some start in the political discussion forum, some in off-topic, and some here, because schools. It's the same conversation over and over again.

McKinney-Vento says that students have a right to attend the school assigned to their last address or the school assigned to their current address, whether that's a shelter, a temporary apartment, or some other address.

[b]If a shelter is built within the boundary for Janney, the school-age children living in the shelter have a right to attend Janney. I[/b]f their parents would prefer that they continue to attend the school they used to live in bounds for, they have a right to attend that school and DC must provide transportation to that school.

Bowser didn't have to think through this. Reagan signed it into law in 1987.

Anyway, maybe read some of the other threads before you get in a tizzy.[/quote]

Which is a pure hypothetical, because [b]there's no way that a shelter will be built within the Janney district.[/b]  Mary Cheh and the same people who protected Janney's interests on the school boundary advisory committee will see to that.  Absolutely.[/quote]

I believe the proposed shelter site on Idaho would be in Eaton's zone, not Janney's:

http://planning.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/dme/publication/attachments/Eaton.pdf[/quote]

I'm guessing that the kind people at Stoddert no longer have concerns about the number of bathrooms and bath tubs in the shelter, or security around the shelter. I predict that their humanitarian concerns for the homeless have evaporated thanks to Cheh moving the shelter out of their boundary.  Funny how that happened. [/quote]

I think that's overly cynical. My kids are past Stoddert age, but we live in the neighborhood and attended the meetings on the shelter. Most of the opposition came from people living on the other side of Wisconsin (Observatory Circle area). There was little if any opposition from Glover Parkers. Many of us were eager to help, and most parents at Stoddert asked reasonable questions about overcrowding and the availability of wraparound services--things the city seemed not to have taken into account.

Also, a number of us in Glover Park and with children at Stoddert have been active on this issue for a long time (personally, not professionally) and have supported private bathrooms from the beginning, when it was debated before Council and long before the mayor released her plan. It's not OK to have one bathtub for 10 families--most of whom have infants or toddlers. It's not OK to send young children into bathrooms shared with unrelated teenagers. It's not OK to ask preteens and teenagers who are already stigmatized by homelessness to wait in line for the shower in the morning; the lack of easy access to daily showers and clean clothes has been proven to lead to increased truancy among children and teens whose families are homeless.

How active have you been on this issue, PP?[/quote]

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