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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Written by a mom who lives in the area that would be re-zoned for Hearst. "See, the other parents want to be moved."

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The Janney parents were incensed for one reason:  property values.
Their own kids and their siblings were going to be grandfathered in.  They were just concerned about falling property values. [/quote]

Not everyone, i would love to get re-zoned - being in Mann will lead to even higher property values.  Think they will move the line between Spring Valley and AU Park to Yuma - its only one block.[/quote][/quote]

Folks did not by rights to J K L or M - they bought rights to D C P and S.  We're about the achievement gap these days ya know.[/quote]

This is complete B and S.  If one thinks that people who buy in DC (and are amenable to trying the public schools) are buying into DCPS generally (like buying into the Grenwhich CT public schools, for example), that is flatly nuts.  Think what would happen if DCPS moved to a citywide system with random or lottery enrollment, the way San Francisco did it.  There would be a riot, just this time all clad in Brooks Brothers.[/quote]

Correct, there is no right but that have something much more valuable - votes and money to make (or not make) political contributions.

NP (at least to this point).  I don't think the point is completely nuts (as I sit here in my Brooks Brothers suit).  The sense in which it is not is that while folks certainly have strong preferences about which school their kids go to (perhaps extreme preferences), and likely bought in a certain neighborhood with the strong expectation they could send their children to that school, they do not in fact have a right.  Municipalities can and do change boundaries, and folks should appreciate that when they buy a home anywhere.  People can, do, and perhaps even should get very upset when boundaries and feeders change.  But legally they do not have rights, and municipalities do have to change boundaries and feeder patterns from time to time.

As a related point, honestly I think a majority of Janney and Murch families would actually be happy if DC did shift some families out to neighboring schools to relieve overcrowding as long as they weren't the ones being moved.  They just don't want to be the ones to speak up and say it because their friends and neighbors will hate them.[/quote][/quote]

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