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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You could do that today.  Eaton and Hearst in Ward 3 still have very large OOB enrollments.  DCPS could say, “No - stop! We are not going to lose these schools, not going to let them flip to IB.  They will never become like Janney. They must remain jewels accessible on the basis of equality and inclusion to the entire community  of DC!”[/quote]

Same with Maury and Van Ness in capitol hill which are going to be all white and high SES within the next 5-10 years most likely[/quote]

Van Ness won't be in Maury's league until they can raise $50K every year to send every 5th grader to a week of Space Camp in Huntsville, AL.  Sorry, but a condo on the Wharf just isn't a historic home on the Hill.  [/quote]

The Wharf isn't even IB for VN so you obviously don't know what you're talking about.

But neither does the disgusting yay VN will be all rich and white in 5 years poster. There are two large public housing developments in SW that feed into VN and aren't going anywhere, plus the mixed-income housing that was part of the Capper redevelopment in Navy Yard where public housing residents still live (Capitol Quarter, the Bixby, etc, with other buildings still under construction or being planned). The neighborhood is richer and whiter than it was 10 years ago but it's--thankfully--going to remain at least somewhat diverse and affordable for the foreseeable future.[/quote]

Van Ness is the model school.  Enough richer (and yes whiters) kids for it to be bearable for folks, racial and ses diversity, and not overwhelming poverty or at-risk folks.  The problem is the demographics of DCPS are 70% FARMS and 40% at-risk.  No upper middle class parent wants that for their kid black, white, Hispanic, Asian none.  And since DC is segregated so much by class and race.  The schools that aren't in the wealthiest areas have even higher percentages of FARMS and at-risk kids.  So the best you can hope for is.  Neighborhood schools in wealthy areas (check), and magnets in other areas (what should be happening).      [/quote]

or you could add more public/affordable housing in the richer parts of DC but politically that's never going to happen[/quote]

Or you could try to attract more middle class residents to the poor parts of the city. [/quote]

Aw, so cute!  Anonymous posters on DCUM need to do their part to accelerate gentrification!

In case you hadn't noticed, that is why the menopausal Type As in their unrenovated 1900 sq ft houselets in upper NW are so bitter.  Some people paid nearly $1M for a makeover house that they can't afford to actually make over.  They are MAD that other people with nicer houses in neighborhoods with more to offer now have access to everything they thought they paid for.  It's not fair that other families have good schools!  Dammit - they paid in money and formica and broken tile and bathrooms that haven't been renovated since pink was a decorator color.  They want exclusive schools.  They should have paid less in housing so they could buy into private because now they have to share DEAL with half of DC and they are MAD MAD MAD.  (Don't even point out that they should have just moved to Rockthesda in the first place.)[/quote]

The Deal families are at least thankful that their kids don't have to go to Hardy.  They still have school uniforms there.  Maybe midnight basketball, too.[/quote]

God I hope you are not really a Deal parent - the Deal parents I know are far brighter and more reasonable than you.  I suspect you are really an insecure future Hardy parent who comes onto every DCUM thread she spots to bash Hardy even though you don't know the first thing about it.

And I love the Midnight Basketball dog whistle.  Keep it classy.[/quote]

+1.  Another parent IB for Deal, and I doubt that they're really a Deal parent--have not heard anyone talk like this about Hardy.  My oldest is still pretty young, but I like the idea of a smaller school like Hardy.[/quote]

You should offer to trade on Craigslist your Deal IB spot for Hardy.  You will probably get 100 offers.  [/quote]

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