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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]CM Frumin has a plan to make Ward 3 more “welcoming” to these folks, so it’s only going to get worse.  Enjoy.  [/quote]

Him getting elected was a bit of a headscratcher. [b]The Ward 3 highschool has 1/3 out of boundary students, which overcrowds it to the extent that parents of in-boundary students who want to send their kids their are instead opting to pay for expensive private schools.[/b] But Frumin says his main focus is - making sure Ward 3 is doing more for people living in other wards? I see Councilmembers from other wards sticking up and trying to get more for their wards, while the Ward 3 Councilmember is trying his best to take more from it.

Not to mention his habit of completely blowing off constituents who write to him.

I mean, I know D.C. elections across the city are almost entirely decided by personality rather than policy, but I thought there’d still be some limits. Not sure why Ward 3 voters weren’t interested in having an advocate for the ward.[/quote]

You have this completely backwards.

The out of boundary students are backfill because the schools have excess capacity due to all the wealthy Ward 3 residents who send their kids to private school and would regardless of the composition of student at the public schools.

Sure, there's some number of people who send their kids to private school because they see black kids at Wilson and go into a racist tizzy, but they're not the cause of it, they're being reactionary to it.  [/quote]

Is Jackson-Reed (current name, not Wilson PP) not still massively overenrolled? I have never heard of it having 'excess capacity". That's a head scratcher. It has extremely wide boundary lines and a high quantity of feeder schools. Jackson-Reed has universally acknowledged great college placements (for some) and also a massive achievement gap. Problematic.[/quote]

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