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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]

I totally agree with this.   Who benefits if Van Ness opens, and is filled mostly with kids from public housing?  How will it be different than any other Title I school.   For some reason people on here some oblivious to the fact that there is a reason why schools in Upper Northwest are generally "good" schools, and schools in high poverty areas are "bad" schools.  It's not that the "bad" schools have bad teachers, and teach less materials than the "good" schools.  The only difference is that the kids in upper northwest comes from families who value education, and have raised their kids in a nurturing environment as opposed to kids who come from high poverty areas.  The families generally don't value education as much, since they are less likely to have valued education themselves.  Since they didn't value education themselves, they find themselves working very hard for very little pay, and their kids aren't exposed to as many enriching activities as kids who come from families who have more resources.[/quote]

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