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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There are people who think she needs to be beholden to people whose kids are not at any risk of real difficulties who want to fight over whether their kids get to go to Murch, Hearst, or Janney.

I would want to ignore those people too. And I hope her attention is on those at risk of real problems.[/quote]

As an affluent parent of a DCPS student, I find many of my peers to be insufferably privileged. (Hello DCUM!)[/quote]

In the Barry era, most people WOTP were afraid to speak up for more city services, either resigned to the probability that they would never get them or out of guilt that somehow they didn't deserve them.  I'm glad to see in the last 15 years or so that people have come to demand good schools, clean parks, trash that gets picked up on time, cops who have training, etc.  DC is no longer the Third World city that it was under Barry, and people should demand good schools and other services for the high taxes that they pay.[/quote]

The quality of your trash pick up is not (usually) impacted by who else is on your trash route.  Maybe parks are, but while they are neighborhood focused there are no boundaries for them (and so of course some do get over crowded from time to time).

I don't think anyone is saying that there shouldn't be schools with qualified teachers, good buildings, new books, and stuff like that.  Its when a high quality school is one that has no more than a certain percentage of FARMS, or when folks are insisting everyone in a certain high SES area must go to one middle school even as that MS gets overcrowded, or when people call attempts to get more at risk kids into certain schools "social engineering pursued by ideologues" that we get issues not found in the social services mentioned above.[/quote]

Why is it unreasonable that people who's neighborhood has fed the same middle school for 60 - 70 years or more. and who have bought houses expecting to attend a certain cluster of schools, don't want to be shunted to another one.?  -- particularly when the other middle school is demonstrably not as good as what they have had?  [/quote]

whether its reasonable or not (which has been discusssed ad nauseum) arguing for it is NOT the same as arguing for good basic services.   But someone is going to get shunted out of Deal.   Unless you are just going to keep making it bigger and bigger.  Maybe thats a feasible solution, I don't know. I don't think its in the US constitution or the DC charter than no one ever gets redistricted to a worse school.  I mean it happens in the suburbs fairly regularly.  Its fine to lobby against it  - its the "if they cut us out of Deal the Barry years are back" as a means of argument that is offputting.   [/quote]

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