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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Look, Brian, I get that ending feeder rights seems unrealistic.  But your other ideas are equally unrealistic.  Until you get serious about spending enough to meet the actual need and fire all the underperformers in every part of the system (Family Engagement and ECE Outreach, this means you!), nothing will change.[/quote]

Different poster.  I see Brian as someone who's doing the hard and usually thankless task of pushing for progress, so I hope you're not bashing him.  I agree with you that many of the proposed solutions seem unrealistic, and that DCPS and DC politics will resist the logical solutions.  But I think we ought to be doing all we can to support people like Brian, because they're willing to be out front as the "tip of the spear" that's prodding DCPS to improve.[/quote]

Brian is lovely (and handsome too), but the fact remains, all their ideas are unrealistic, won't work, or both.[/quote]

You're saying that ending feeder rights is unrealistic, and also that all the other ideas Brian and his W3EdNet gang are suggesting are also unrealistic or unworkable.  So are you essentially saying there is no solution and we might as well give up and accept whatever idiocy DCPS offers (i.e., either continued overcrowding, or building a flotilla of new schools in NWDC to allow all the OOB students to commute to W3 for school)?  Or do you have some unmentioned third way approach for solving this problem?

I'm genuinely not trying to argue with you.  I just don't understand what you're suggesting if you think no approaches will work.  If your approach is "firing all the underperformers in every part of the system," then I have to say that doesn't seem terribly realistic either.

Please help me understand you.[/quote]

I am saying that they should offer a slate of realistic proposals, even if they are more modest in scale.  And that ruling out changes to the feeder pattern as unrealistic is not persuasive because that criticism can be made of all the proposals.  If they are unwilling to propose changes to the feeder pattern they should state the real reason.  It makes no sense to throw one unrealistic proposal out and keep other unrealistic proposals in.[/quote]

I would add that your anger at the W3-feeder gang is misplaced.  DCPS has said in no uncertain terms over and over and over that the OOB/feeder patterns is OFF THE TABLE ... (and basically will not be heard) so, they are focusing on other ideas.
If you don't believe that - try going to endless meetings including facing the political realities of how unpopular it would be for the Mayor and Council outside of Ward 3... keep fighting away at the feeder rights if you want... but will also be constructive to engage in efforts to at least try to think of anything else that might be possible.[/quote]

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