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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It's very easy to have anti VN feelings. Especially if you live in SW. [b]They fought so hard to keep many of our kids out of their schools[/b] by pretending to be scared of south capitol street. It felt like a quarantine. 
Also- many of us had stumbled into the VNPG meetings and saw them in action. [b]Even for DCUM standards it was distasteful[/b]. Not to mention their ignorance about school form and structure. [b]A bunch of political wonks throwing around things like IB or immersion[/b]. It was painful to watch.
 
I don't call everything rascist and I actually get wanting a good kiddo mix in your schools. All good things. [b]Then, you have the VNPG[/b]. [/quote]

What specifically did the VNPG do to try to keep kids out the school?

I've been to most meetings, what did they do at the meetings that was distasteful?

What's wrong with having a meeting discussing the merits of Language Immersion or IB at the school?

What's wrong with a group of parents forming a parents group to support a DC Public School?[/quote]

They specifically tried to set the boundary at South Capitol Street, which just so happens to be a  way of keeping all the kids in 3 large public housing developments out of their school, and have publicly criticized or otherwise disregarded Amidon-Bowen, the school they're currently zoned for: see http://greatergreatereducation.org/post/23170/capitol-riverfront-parents-organize-to-reopen-a-closed-dcps-school/ "Sohmer didn't even apply to Amidon-Bowen, her zoned school, because someone told her it was dangerous. (She admits she didn't have time to do much research" and http://www.capitalcommunitynews.com/content/reopening-van-ness-elementary-school "One couple spoke eloquently about their ten mile round trip walk with their PK-4 child each day to get her to Amidon-Bowen Elementary School and back. Amidon-Bowen is the current by-right school for the Van Ness area. Located in Southwest, it is quite and across a major artery (South Capitol Street) from much of the Van Ness boundary. Few of the future Van Ness families have children there now so they are unlikely to enroll their children in Kindergarten there for the 2015-2016 school year." (note: there are very few, if any, parts of the Van Ness boundary that are a 2.5 mile walk from Amidon-Bowen, and the P6 and V8 buses run frequently from even the furthest reaches of Capitol Riverfront directly to Amidon). They specifically wanted the school to be filled with kids from that neighborhood, see http://www.capitalcommunitynews.com/content/sws-van-ness-and-school-boundary-proposals-run-down-hot-topics "parents in the former Van Ness boundaries have been fully mobilized to get the school reopened as quickly as possible. They presented their own neighborhood studies to the Chancellor’s office showing that the school would quickly be filled largely with IB kids."

Capitol Riverfront families were also very vocal at the DME's boundary discussions about having the boundary at South Capitol. And you can do a search on this site (pay special attention to posts in June and August 2014 when the boundary proposal and final boundaries came out) to see what folks had to say.[/quote]

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