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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]“I think we should send SES and Lafayette kids to the moon!”  -PP, probably[/quote]

SES and Lafayette deserve to be zoned for Ward 3. Money has it is privileges---and property values talk. SP is literally home to Jack...and...Jill. FFS. Make Chevy Chase cross the Rock Creek Park for ECE?What if our Teslas get scratched by construction debris? Woebegone Whitter with its rats? Tattered Takoma? We are so above it! Moreover, tons of SP and CC families don't even use the public schools (gag!), but we need to preserve our feeder pattern so that if we do sell our faux Tudors and bucolic bungalows to become digital nomads or what-evs, we can make as much money as possible. Porto has gotten pricey these days. [/quote]

You're an ugly person. SP did not have a middle school 30 years ago when it was zoned for Deal. Wells is already packed. Stop misdirecting your ugliness. They should have better planned for a large middle school in North Ward 4 to accommodate Lafayette and Shepherd and Takoma. They did not. There is no other alternative other than to zone hundreds to Brookland to accommodate SP and CC at Wells. That doesn't make sense when Hardy and MA have space. You can use all your hate and ugliness towards SP and CC but it's misdirected. I'm sorry you're going to be zoned to Hardy. There are thousands in the city that would kill to be in your shoes. There's always GDS. Then again, you probably won't get in because you showed your ugliness to them when they took up too many neighborhood parking spots. [/quote]

I am most sorry for your parents - I am sure that tried to raise you better than you have become (hateful, uber-entitled, teeming with contempt those you deem below your station in life). What is about the diversity of the rest of Ward 4 that brings out the torrential storms of your inner bile? Or scares you? I am not zoned for Hardy - I'm IB for Wells/Coolidge -and am tired off your poor behavior with its ready tinge of colorism, "let them eat cake"-ism, too bougie for Brightwood-ism, etc. DCPS can contract or expand any school, including Wells/Coolidge - and Shepherd Park and and least half of Lafayette can join us. Hell, the built a new high school in one summer. [/quote]

I call BS on this post. You are not inbounds for Wells. You wouldn’t be this upset that SES and Lafayette were not zoned to Wells based on the contempt you have for them. [/quote]

Too funny.  Have lived in Ward 4, IB for Whittier for 15+ years. As you should know, most of Ward 4 has disgust for the BEHAVIOR of CC parents, and more than a few SES parents, particularly lately. I understand that hate and contempt are your bread and butter for the hoi polloi in the rest of the city, but I don't think that other Ward 4 parents hate anyone, we just are calling you on your bad behavior/poor arguments. Come help us build a strong cohort of MC in students in Ward 4 schools, because Lafayette and SES literally breed churn by having the enshrined privilege feeder path out-of-ward.  [/quote]

Come on, I live IB for Wells/Coolidge and it's not rocket science to me why Shepherd & Lafayette parents want to preserve their feeder pattern. If I lived in those neighborhoods, I'd want to also. Maybe our focus should be on the terrible IB participation rate of our boundary schools? There's already a strong cohort here, it's just not using the schools. [/quote]

Ummm. Wells has a 60% boundary participation rate. Coolidge won't get better unless it has a strong cohort from the entire Ward. I agree, there is a strong cohort in Ward 4 not using Ward 4 schools, and some of those kids live in Takoma et al, but a lot of them live in North Portal Estates, Chevy Chase, Colonial Village, and Shepherd Park. No one who has privilege wants to give it up - humans are self-maximizers with strong free-riding tendencies, but the out-of-ward privilege is hurting the rest of the kids in the Ward. [/quote]

You're focusing on the wrong numbers for Wells. Look here: https://dme.dc.gov/node/1665401. Over 60% of its students live in-boundary but only 27% of grade-specific students living in-boundary attend. Its feeders have similarly low numbers. Compare to Deal and Hardy, for example, where that percentage is in the 70s. [/quote]

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