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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Good question.

Apparently, a decade is long enough for any particular Hill DCPS ES to flip IF it's not Watkins.

Watkins is effectively owned by parents living in Wards 5, 7 and 8, many of them city employees.  Lots of these parents attended Watkins, see it as their by-right school, and won't let go of their grasp.  Looks like it will take a generation for this to change.

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Just come out and say it -- you don't like that Watkins' black parents behave like real stakeholders in their children's school and demand a real voice advocating for the school and their children even if the school sits geographically in a largely white community that wants their school to look like their community.  That's the real issue to you.

Replace South Boston in the 70s and you start to get the idea.[/quote]

No you just come out and say it, I'm a myopic a race baiter and proud of it.

I'm AA and want a neighborhood elementary school in my neighborhood, not a school dominated by families living outside my neighborhood, with a principal catering to meet their children's needs, not mine.  I want the student body at my neighborhood school mirror that of my diverse but mostly high SES and white community, yes, I do.  The "real issue" to me is having a neighborhood school my children can walk to in the community where I choose to own real estate and live. Oh, and did I mention that I graduated from Boston Latin?

My children attend a charter.  OK, granted, PP above, Watkins may become mostly in-boundary and Brent-like in five or six years, far too late for my own children.

Go away race-baiting troll and while you're at it, grow up and enter the 21st century mentally.

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?? what is stopping you from enrolling at Watkins? The stats for high SES kids at Watkins are excellent.  And you're blind not to see that race is a huge reason why your white neighbors won't enroll, even if it's different for you.  [/quote]

What's stopping me is the safety issue, dummy. It's not race, it's safety.[/quote]

You didn't mention anything about safety in your post.  You mentioned that you went to Boston Latin and that you want the school to mirror the neighborhood, and that the school "caters" to poor kids that are not like your kids.  Also handwaving about having the right to attend school where you live (despite the fact that YOU chose to buy your house there ... )[/quote]

You must be confusing PPs.

I'm not either poster you seem to be answering, but please take the hint.  Calling longtime IB parents who have real concerns about Watkins names, and seeking to invalidate their opinions, just isn't a great recruiting tool.[/quote]

anyone want to claim calling someone "dummy" in their post? :roll: [/quote]

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