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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have a parent who has attended one of these meetings on boundary changes too and can provide my input. Nobody seems to care about the rights of those who are in bound for Wilson, even though they bought a house west of rock creek précisely for that reason. They have in mind vague ideas about controlled choice sets, full lottery and other crap and they have not even thought how long it takes to drive from palisades to Columbia heights (yes, they are thinking of making Cardozo the hs of choice for those who live in palisades). They seem oblivious to the idea that families with kids could go to Montgomery county or Virginia and just leave dc. When you tell them that public schools in NW dc improved not by chance but because of the investment of time and resources by so many ib families who cared about the local community and the nearby public school, thy tell you that everybody should get a chance. They are thinking of building 200 million dollar schools in plots of faraway empty land, call it a magnet and they tell you that if you care you can send your kid there. If I were the administrator of a dc  private school I could not be more hopeful about the seeds of the disaster they are planting. If you are a family in the district who cares about the quality of dc public schools either make yourself heard or flee the city now. These people have no clue about what they are doing. Honestly, I can only think they are serving political interests or are working secretly for some private school lobbyist[/quote]

Say it ain't so! [/quote]

I have attended these meetings  and I think you are correct, they are trying to address the system as a whole, not meet just the parochial needs of well off Washingtonians in Ward 3.  If you want to say I am rich I paid a lot for my real estate and I have a right to good schools and screw the rest of the city, I guess you are right you have first amendment rights, but as far as I know there is no real estate/education right in any political document that I can find.  For better or worse this problem has festered for too long because privileged people said I will take my school dollars and run away screw the rest of you.  You may end of up doing that and we will miss your money, but the fact is that a school system serves a lot of students in a variety of SES situations and the DME has to think of them also, crazy thing democracy, so yes they are going to try and help those children and it may not mean your life is perfect.   As a society it is easy to say oh those crappy parents they are the cause of their kids sucking at school and it is true that they may struggle to give their kids additional resources and frankly some of them do suck, but the fact is that I personally want my kid to also live in a world we don't have a permanent growing underclass which may mean we try and figure how to pull more of these kids in better schools including the one where your child attends.  I promise poor kids don't have cooties. [/quote]

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