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[quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele]

You should be aware -- and I don't thinking I'm giving away any secrets here -- that the plan that Mayor Bowser accepted regarding grandfathering was proposed by the Ward 4 Education Alliance. As far as I know, only one Crestwood family signed on in support of the plan. The 16th Street Heights folks were stronger in their support, but the bulk of those supporting the proposal were exactly those families that you think we threw under the bus. I would submit that if they don't feel thrown under the bus, you shouldn't feel like they were either.
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I was part of that discussion.  What we were looking at was a fight within / between neighborhoods.  For those who were dead set against (or not in favor of) sending their kids to a new middle school, they had incentive to actively fight against establishment of the middle school, which would prolong their rights to Deal.  Even if it went through against their wishes, they were not going to send their kids anyway.
For those of us who are in favor of the new middle school, we'd rather focus on how to make the school better than fighting within the neighborhoods.  And maybe, at the end of the day, a few more people will choose to send their kids to the school based on being involved in the process.

The reason we went with the Ward 4 Education Alliance was to see if there was consensus among Ward 4 and not just the Crestwood / 16th Street Heights people.[/quote]

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