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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]

Every VNPG meeting I went to, the people running the meeting would specifically say that their only concern was that Van Ness had a boundary, and they are not endorsing a particular boundary.[/quote]

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