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Only fillable by having Stoddert students drive instead of walk to school. (Walking through the park on hilly, muddy, and unimproved trails in the early morning is not a solution)[/quote]

No. It could be. But it won't. Please go back 5 pages of wherever this was discussed.[/quote]

It is I, the older Glover Park poster who had to take a trip and missed out on the continual rehashing!

The debate about whether Stoddert boundaries will be redrawn to screw Glover Park is, as yet, unresolved.  My obviously biased recap: [b]I, a Glover Park resident, see the CWG lacking GP representation,[/b] showing an example boundary that screws Glover Park, and listening to many meetings where DCPS defended those exact boundaries.  Obviously the numbers for the Foxhall school don't work out unless they take from Stoddert (the estimate is roughly 40% of students coming from GP).  The CWG member on here says the boundary was a mistake by DCPS, and assures us that Glover Park will remain whole.

The CWG member (or others, it's all anonymous of course) pointed out there could be a 'rotation' around the park.  As near as I can tell, that would involve the northern tip of Stoddert's catchment going to Mann.  But that would put those residents of Cathedral Heights at a much further distance from Mann than they currently are from Stoddert.  Notably, Chancellor Ferebee's letter announcing the schools did not mention redrawing any of Hyde-Addison, and I take that as an indication no movement will happen there, despite the obvious ideas.

There has been mention of the Stoddert addition, with an accompanying claim it should solve problems.  However, as DCPS has said, the eventual addition would simply be replacing the trailers with permanent structures, total capacity would stay nearly the same.  There is no 'expansion' currently planned.  As an indication of DCPS's beliefs, the original money for the addition was, I believe, taken for the building and acquisition of Foxhall and MacArthur.  That's DCPS's expansion plan for Stodddert, and another indicator of what 's going to happen to Glover Park.  (Not to mention my old hobbyhorse of the CWG sticking with the ludicrous 'hike through the park' distance from GP to Foxhall.  If GP isn't going to Foxhall, why lie about this?  Why should I trust an organization that starts with a dishonest statement?)

Anyway, this is all unresolved, and will likely remain so until DCPS proposes something.  Chancellor Ferebee is meeting with ANC 3B (Glover Park) on April 14th, mainly to discuss MacArthur HS I believe.  I imagine he's too politically smart to discuss boundaries, but I'm sure he will be barraged with questions given the previous disregard of GP by DCPS and the CWG's (and Cheh).[/quote]

Congratulations, older Glover Park poster, for you have entered Alternative Fact Land! You join your neighbors in Foxhall Village as the sole current occupants of Alternative Fact Land. [Perhaps the redistricting group was onto something lumping Foxhall Village and Glover Park together...]

Contrary to your "see[ing] the CWG as lacking GP representation," the actual working group had at least five members from Stoddert/Glover Park.

Stoddert ES designees included two members. The Stoddert parent representatives included two members. And ANC 3B was represented through the chair being a designee.

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Thank you, and I thought I was hot headed!! 
 As mentioned way back (and no, don't go read 20 pages), a representative from Stoddert is not the same thing as a representative from Glover Park!  They, by design, represent the interests of Stoddert, not the neighborhood.  I don't know why this is hard to understand, or why it leads to over the top attacks.  I vote for (SMD,) ANC, and city council, they represent me/Glover Park.  Stoddert represents Stoddert.

Yes, the ANC 3B commissioner was added by the 5th? (I legit forget) CWG meeting, after Glover Park got wind of the proposal to cut up Glover Park and finally got Cheh to do something.  Notably, the other ANCs affected had representation the entire time, Glover Park did not, and the example redistricting which has led to so much debate hurts Glover Park while helping the other ANCs.

And I thought I was hot headed![/quote]

It's just a straight-up lie to say there was "no" GP representation. It may not have been the representation that you personally wanted, but it existed. [/quote]

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