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For me, it's as if Charles Allen and company don't even bother with the rest of our community on education issues.
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YES. His and Tommy Wells' silence as a huge chunk of Ward 6 was redistricted from Wilson to Eastern was deafening. Probably because CHPSPO's interest is in improving Eastern, not allowing kids access to Wilson, or keeping Wilson diverse.[/quote]
I don't have a horse in this race, but doesn't he have a kid about to enter PK3? So whatever he does will impact his kid too.  That doesn't mean you have to agree with him. But there's a difference between disagreeing with him and ascribing nefarious intent. What if he was prioritizing Eastern? Since his the education quality in his district is more impacted by Eastern than Wilson wouldn't that be appropriate? Sure, if you were moved out of Wilson I get the anger; I would be angry too. But how myopic is your vision that you can't see that what is in your best interest isn't in everyone's?[/quote]
I am not the pp, but I might hazard a guess.
I like the guy, heck, I voted for him.  Nevertheless, Charles Allen, on some school issues, says current parents need to sacrifice their short term options in order to strengthen the longer term options of other parents.  
On the issue of Wilson assignments changing to Eastern, who could deny that Wilson is widely considered a stronger option?  But he spoke nary a word about it when that issue was pressing.  Much of Ward 6 lost access to Wilson without Allen even visiting the issue.
On the issue of neighborhood schools and charters, Allen is in favor of limiting options in the near term in order to hopefully improve long term options (essentially force kids into neighborhood schools by limiting charters from opening, although he would use the euphemism "coordination" instead of limiting).  Washington Global is opening in L'Enfant Plaza only after a long search for a facility in other parts of the city.  But for a variety of reasons, including the DC government slow walking the release of unused buildings, Washington Global had to take whatever they could find (and the building they got actually is pretty good).  Washington Global appears to be a school in the vein of Latin and Basis and that would have significant appeal to his Ward 6 constituents – they are clamoring for middle school options NOW.  But Allen is siding with the hopeful notion that by constricting the supply of available desirable middle school seats now, Eliot Hine, Jefferson and even Stuart Hobson will improve.  And the good folks at CHPSPO, including Joe Weedon, are enabling this with a moralistic attack on charters.
It’s a replay of the Stuart Hobson / Two Rivers fight from last decade.[/quote]

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