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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Stoddert’s boundaries make perfect sense.  It’s a triangle bounded on two sides by Natl Park land and one side by a major artery road.  Those geographical features define neighborhoods as well as commuting convenience.

Old Hardy also has obvious geographic boundaries.  The neighborhoods of Foxhall Crescent (per Apple Maps) and Foxhall are completely encircled by park land and the river.  It’s probably why an elementary school was located there I the first place.

I have no idea how many potential students live in those two neighborhoods now.  Perhaps it’s too few for today’s typical elementary.[/quote]

The problem with Stoddert’s boundary is that the homes closest to Stoddert are also those closest to the new Foxhall. How the hell do you logically reroute kids who live two blocks from Stoddert to the new Foxhall? It’s madness.

And yes, it’s probably going to happen. DCPS will take advantage of the leadership vacuum between the Cheh-Frumin transition when he won’t have much institutional clout on the Council as the “new guy.” That’s precisely why Cheh is trying take a legislative approach right now; she doesn’t trust DCPS. [/quote]

I know Stoddert parents are resistant to facts, but Foxhall is within the Key boundaries, and more than half of the kids currently at Key live closer to Foxhall than Key. So it's not at all true that "the homes closest to Stoddert are also those closest to the new Foxhall." [/quote]

I think the PP meant that the homes in GP closest to the new Foxhall are closest to Stoddert.  Which also means anyone else from Stoddert moved to Foxhall would have an even longer trip to school and in many cases would literally drive past Stoddert on their way to Foxhall.

There is no good solution for how to fill this new ES.  Some cohort of kids is going to have a significantly worse commute than they currently have and in most of those cases families who used to be able to walk to school will now be driving to a location they have to double back from to get to home or work.

But if DCPS doesn't fill the school with kids from another W3 elementary school the school population will be 75% OOB which means it will be heavily AA.  Which means there is a real risk folks in Foxhall won't even send their kids to school there so we will have created a traffic cluster for no really benefit.

FWIW I don't live in GP and my kids are out of ES so I have no personal interest in how this school gets populated but I was very active in the boundary re-drawing 10 years ago.[/quote]

We live in Burleith, so now our neighborhood is helping to anchor Hyde-Addison in Georgetown. Distance wise, our neighborhood is quite close and convenient to Foxhall. But I think removing us from Hyde-Addison would do a big disservice to the progress H-A has been making. Further, Burleith was removed from Stoddert just a few years ago to be re-routed to H-A. If they then moved Burleith again to Foxhall, it would absolutely demolish any potential uptake for public schools by Burleith residents (which is now trending heavily young families in the last few years).

Stoddert is about to go through some things. My guess is that the cohort north of Tunlaw might get lopped off to be sent to Foxhall.[/quote]

I don't know where they will find the kids, but you're right that Burleith is the obvious -- closer than GP -- place.  And you're also right that switching around Burleith, again, isn't going to fly.  Additionally, the Ward 2/3 line separates Burleith/GP, and Pinto isn't going to allow the kids to be sent to a different Ward.  Meanwhile in Ward 3, Cheh and Frumin have multiple competing constituencies. [/quote]

There are gerrymandered parts of Wesley Heights that are currently in Mann which will be easy to pick off for Foxhall ES. Tho, I’m guessing head count won’t be high as those are some of the most expensive houses in the region and probably filled with private school families. The large apartment buildings north of Tunlaw that are currently zoned for Stoddert will be ripe for the picking for Foxhall.

Regardless of what happens, Foxhall’s boundary map will be UGLY, illogical, and gerrymandered.[/quote]

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