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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]On Saturday I talked to a friend who lives over by Hardy Park, who doesn't have kids but has been receiving the FCCA side of the story. He said, "isn't the only reason the schools are crowded that DCPS buses kids in from other parts of the city?"

I set him straight, but this is the kind of talking point that's going around. [/quote]

The Foxhall / Palisades NIMBY playbook is as predictable as it is reprehensible. The essence of the operation is for those who don't want a proposed project (whether that be improving a trail or building a new elementary school) to go ahead for their own selfish reasons to whip up community opposition by scaring their neighbors into believing that said project will result in an invasion of (non-white) kids and teens from the rest of the city. Because those neighbors are terrified of the everything and everybody that lies east of Foundry Branch and Glover Archbold Parks and are don't possess the knowledge or reasoning to understand that the claims are not only crafted to appeal to their own base racism but are also blatantly misleading, they buy into them. They are the local equivalent of those who want to build a wall on the southern border to keep out the illegals.[/quote]

I'm from Palisades. Don't go lumping us in with those Foxhall nut cases. People are much saner here. [/quote]

Palisades Trolley Trail? Not a lot of sanity coming out of Sherier Place on that one.[/quote]

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