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Thank you for this well though out post. I too am in 16th Street Heights and am looking to work with other families in the neighborhood o this important and timely issue.  I know you posted anonymously but feel free to email me at mariabarry@gmail.com--I would love to connect you to come others that are strategizing.[/b]

[quote=Anonymous]16th Street Heights resident here.  We moved here two years ago after our daughter got into to an elementary school charter, and we felt safe moving but wanted to ensure access to Deal and Wilson.  We had more than enough reason to expect that this access would continue, given that our neighborhood, along with Crestwood, Shepherd Park, Colonial Village, and Mount Pleasant, have been inbounds for Deal and feeder access to Wilson for decades. The proposal ignores this historic access for Crestwood and 16th Street Heights and the reasonable expectations of its neighbors, and simply carves us out.  
 
 This realignment also appears to lack any explanation other than the proposal's expressed desire to align middle and high school's boundaries with our in-bound elementary school, West Elementary.  Whatever the virtue of aligning these boundaries, it's not an adequate basis to cancel our existing ability to attend a quality middle and high school.  If aligning boundaries is the concern, the fairer solution would be to treat Crestwood and 16th Heights the same as SP and Mt P, and assign us to a higher performing elementary school, not downgrade our middle and high school access to D and W.  Equal or better, as has been said.
 
Moreover, the proposal offers no alternative middle school option for us at all.  McFarland is currently closed and would require renovations before it could even open.  To our knowledge, the only resources currently available for this is $7 million in planning funds.  The proposal acknowledges this in one line stating that where a student is assigned to a school that is not yet open, they keep their existing rights until it does.  But it is insensitive at best for a proposal to recommend this reassignment to take effect the day that a hypothetical school opens, instead of when parents might get an opportunity to assess it in reality.  
 
We decided to raise our children in the DC based on our reliance on existing DC public schools available to our family.  The proposal should lay out a plan for expanding and improving those opportunities into equal or better ones, not cutting or downgrading them. 
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