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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A "baby" here from Garrison (PK4 parent) who is committed and looking forward to working with other parents on our middle school.  Since there are people on this thread who say they have been in the fight for a while and gave up, I'd love to hear any lessons learned from past middle school reform efforts - other than that this is a hopeless cause.

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We say it's hopeless because we tired.

Because we stayed up night after night for years working on a dream.  For some of us...it worked.  Some of us built middle schools that we see you "baby" parents talk shit about on DCUM like they were nothing.  You don't even realize the hard work to get some of these programs up and running that you people take for granted.

You want to start a school?  You want to revamp a DCPS?

Stop posting on DCUM and bitching and join a work group, set up a meeting, write a proposal, write a grant, you should be working every second of your spare time for the next 2 years until you live and breath middle schools.

Then, 10 years from now when some PK parent comes and says "What's the deal with that place?  Why couldn't they get that going?"  Tell me how you feel.

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Um...  No.  Improving a school is not my job.  It's DCPS's job (which they obviously perform terribly) or a DCPCS's job.  Either way, we pay our taxes and expect certain services as a result:  fire, police, schools, pothole repair, garbage pick-up, etc.  We don't expect to be involved in the performance of these services.  We expect them to be up to high standards, or else why in the hell are you telling us that our house is worth $750K and you want us to pay property taxes to that effect?

STFU.

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But you live in a city with multi-generational poverty. Because of the way the schools are assigned -- and because the poors have more kids and can't send them elsewhere -- the public schools are flooded by kids who are probably starting at a deficit.  And those kids (your neighbors) vastly outnumber the children of anybody paying taxes on a $750k home.[/quote]

You don't get it.  I don't have a $750K home.  The Mayor's administration says I do, and I have to pay taxes to that effect, but it's not true.

As long as the city is going to rape my family, I'm going to speak some truth to power.  Pick up the trash.  It's not my job.[/quote]

If you've been there any amount of time and claiming the homestead deduction, your annual increase has a pretty slow growth cap on it, so I call bullshit.  Also if you've been here any amount of time, you'd have some relationships with your poorer neighbors.
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Call it whatever you want lady, you don't live here and you don't know.  When we moved into this house almost twenty years ago, we were threatened on the streets for our pallor, robbed, heard gunshots, smelled pot (back when that wasn't legal) right outside our front door, had people try to break in, you name it.  Hell, we couldn't even get a pizza delivered.  We bought into the hood.  I don't owe you or anyone else an explanation for my disgust with criminals.  STFU.[/quote]

I've lived here has long as you and yeah, it sucked.  I worked hard to change my neighborhood.  Difference is, I saw it as my job to make difference. Maybe why you are so bitter is you are "not my problem" kind of person.

Making this city and our neighborhood better is everyone's problem. If you want to rely on the government, go live in socialism where the nanny state will do everything for you. [/quote]

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