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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Wilson and Deal are ethnically diverse but they really aren't that economically diverse anymore and in any case both are overcrowded to the point that sometime soon it will start to erode the quality of both schools.

The fight for access to what should be scarce seats at Deal & Wilson is not a battle between affluent residents of Ward 3 and lower income people of color from Wards 7 & 8.

It is a battle between affluent residents of Ward 3 whose kids can walk to those schools and affluent residents of Crestwood, Mount Pleasant, Shepherd Park (who are getting in by right) and other parts of the city who have found backdoor ways into Ward 3 (like renting in bounds for a year) who in many cases are driving significant distances to get across the park everyday.  Some of these residents are people of color but many in fact are also white.

Having some of these affluent families attend schools closer to their own neighborhoods would actually do what some of the people on this thread purport to care about which is to say it would make EOTP schools more ethnically and economically diverse which would almost certainly help to improve those schools.

And Deal & Wilson could actually accept some lower income students who would benefit more from the opportunity to attend what are perceived as higher performing schools.

The idea of opening new public schools in remote Foxhall Village to solve enrollment problems in Tenleytown caused by students living EOTP, many of whom are affluent and white, who live near grossly under enrolled but recently renovated public schools is just insane and shows the lack of courage from the DC Council.

The Mayor should lead on this and pledge to have her own [b]daughter be part of the first group of kids from her neighborhood to actually attend their neighborhood schools[/b] and tell the Crestwood residents to stuff it and follow her.  And just so the perceived pain is spread around Lafayette students should also have to spend a couple of extra minutes commuting across the park on Military Road to Wells and Coolidge for MS and HS which is a lot less of a commute than anyone will have who gets moved to whatever new schools get opened in Foxhall.

The DC Council has money to burn and a paucity of courage so it will never happen but logistically solving overcrowding at Deal & Wilson is pretty straightforward.[/quote]

What schools are exactly her neighborhood schools? It takes the same time to get from Bowser’s house to Deal as it does to Macfarland. And about Sam’s as Wells (of which there is no room). Like it or not, Deal is Bowser’s neighborhood school. [/quote]

That is nonsense and provably untrue.

Colonial Village is much closer to Wells than Deal and about equidistant to MacFarland and FWIW you can get from Colonial Village to both schools on a Metrobus which you cannot do for Deal without a time consuming transfer.

Let me guess - you live in Crestwood?[/quote]

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