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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There have been a lot of people on DCUM and at the boundary group meetings that were very clear they wanted the VN boundary to only be east of South Capitol. Some would have loved to take over some of Brent's boundary too.

The VNPG's official line is quite politically correct (their goal has been to get the school open) but actual parents living in the area are not always quite as polite. Whether this is about not wanting the kids in SW's public housing developments because they're poor, or because they're black and poor, is somewhat irrelevant. They have been pretty exclusive, and they have made it clear that the school they were zoned for is not an option, largely because of a student body they did everything they could to keep out of VN. [/quote]

Of course there is guaranteed affordable housing east of South Cap (some of the EYA TH's etc) and a good bit more coming when the DC finally builds the replacement units.  Its not like this would be like certain Upper NW districts, or certain suburban districts, even had the boundary been on S Cap (which in fact it is not).  So the issue is not about having FARMs kids, but how many. Since both non-FARMs and FARMs kids appear to do better when the FARMs percentage is below a particular threshold, I am not sure there is anything wrong with a goal of having a FARM % below that threshold.

I think there is far too little SES integration.   I despair at the resistance to it in many suburbs, and in parts of DC (notably in upper NW)  I find it unfair that people who have chosen to live in what will be an SES integrated neighborhood, and who want to send their kids to an SES integrated school, are attacked as racist/classist. [/quote]

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