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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]There is a really unhappy Ward 3 resident repeatedly making some stupid comments on this thread.

I'm not the PP but am quite happy with my kids Ward 3 school options.  The schools are large but none are actually overcrowded.  Even Wilson is much smaller than most suburban high schools.  And my kids can walk to all 3 of their schools.

I'm a lot more concerned about the planet they are inheriting and whether or not it will be inhabitable and the affordability of the city we live in than whether or not my privileged upper middle class white kids who attend a very good set of public schools will get a good education or not.

I suspect the person repeatedly making this clumsy point is not even a current public school parent.[/quote]

Troll. But you have already exercised your privilege and live in an area where you can walk to three schools without worrying about the quality of the school. Congratulations.

The rest of your statement is patently made up. If you brought your kids into this world to sacrifice them on the alter of your wokeness then you should probably have your kids taken away. But licensing parenting is a few steps down the road for the Density Bros once they figure out that their school system is tapped out in this city (Easier than fixing the system).[/quote]

Yes, some of us who live in Ward 3 and realize how lucky we are to be able to live somewhere where our kids can walk to excellent schools also believe the city should make it easier for more people to do this. I don't work for development interests; if it were up to me, the city would be building public housing in Ward 3, not merely loosening zoning regulations to make it easier to build more densely. I am quite certain that adding some kids to the excellent schools here — even (gasp!) poor kids — will not "sacrifice" them on any altar. [/quote]

DC just opened a family shelter in Ward 3.  Additional, real affordable housing and public housing requires that DC make make investments at sites that the District owns.  While there aren’t many such sites in the ward, when they built the Tenley library DC spent a million extra $ for a reinforced structure to support the future addition of several floor of housing on top.  It might require a repurposing of a small piece of the Janney playground to make it work.  If you’re really an AU Park public school parent, why not step forward and start a petition effort to add public housing at the library/Janney site?[/quote]

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