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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We voted out Brandon Todd. Ward 4 views may not be same as Ward 3 or 6 views![/quote]

Good for you guys up in Ward 4.  We need your spirit down here on CH, but there don't seem to be enough educational minded voters to oust Charles Allen.  What can he really do about schools anyway?  He's just one council member and the Mayor doesn't give a hoot.[/quote]

I appreciate your energy, but would appreciate it more if you would take a few minutes to understand how the Council works and that your ire is misdirected. There used to be a Standing Committee on Education. Mendelson disbanded the Committee and moved it to the Committee of the Whole. In essence there is no direct oversight; it is "oversight by all". Which means little oversight. And what oversight exists is controlled on high by Mendelson. As long as oversight lives with the Committee of the Whole, Mendelson controls it.  [/quote]

Completely agree. I don't love Charles Allen on crime, but I actually think he's reasonable on schools. I also like that he walks to walk by actually having his kids enrolled in his neighborhood DCPS. I am curious to see what he does next year, as he's about to have a personal stake in the Hill's MS situation (which is more than I can say for basically anyone else on the Council). (I know White & Bowser have their kids in their DCPS, but those kids are little little IIRC. Allen has a 5th grader in his IB EOTP DCPS.)[/quote]

Has anyone approached him on schools and advanced options DCPS wide?  It's a proposal that he can work on with parents and there is a Chancellor's Parent Advisory Board. That's where change starts.[/quote]

Would his middle schooler go to SH?  If so, I think that is exactly where his child will go.  He has always struck me as the type of guy who "walks the walk" by sending his kid to somewhere that many would not, and when questioned, repeats the trope that "upper middle class children surrounded by books will be fine anywhere."  He might even believe it, because I know plenty of intelligent well-meaning CH parents who do.  I don't see him as wanting to even acknowledge that the status quo is not ok, much less work to change it.  But I'd be happy to be proven wrong![/quote]

Charles Allen has played the cap hill school game just let every other family.  When he was first elected he lived in the Miner boundary but sent his kids to JO Wilson.  Then he moved west (I'm assuming partially to avoid getting redistricted into Ward 7) and into the Ludlow boundary.  Both schools would allow a feed into S-H.  I'm not impressed by a politician who wants bonus points for sending his kids to Ludlow.  We'll see if they end up at Eastern - doubtful.  [/quote]

Actually, only his older kid ever went to JO (via the lottery). She then lotteried into LT and they moved IB afterwards. (FWIW there are lots of things that could have motivated his move beyond redistricting — and I think his older house remains in Ward 6. His new house is, for instance, in a safer neighborhood closer to amenities and public transport.) His son went to PK at Miner for a year. I don’t fault a politician who does the lottery legitimately. I don’t think he wants bonus points for sending his kids to LT, but I absolutely give him credit for keeping his kids in public schools gives what his colleagues do. I assume his older daughter will start at SH next year. No way he sends his kids to Eastern — he isn’t Joe Weedon and isn’t vocally anti-charter or anti the selective schools. I assume he hopes she gets into Walls.[/quote]

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