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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As a former family who lived in bounds for Janney when our kids were younger, but now live in a different ward, I remember feeling like Janney was so overcrowded and that may have been part of the reason why some families go a little nuts when it came to trying to root out families who they perceived as not belonging. I am sorry to say I might have got caught up in it a time or two myself. I felt like the classes were so full so I looked for a scapegoat in people trying to get in who didn’t live there. Now that our family lives in a different part of the city, I realize that that area is SO not like the rest of DC and the people who live there, amongst the wealthiest in the city, are unfortunately just not exposed to what most of DC is like which therefore informs there behavior. Having compassion is hard if you don’t live in someone else’s shoes and you’ve never lived outside your bubble. At the end of the day, we all pay city taxes and want a good education for our kids. Not in the future, but now. Some communities just don’t have the time or the money to build up their neighborhood schools. If you live near a food school, it’s partially luck.[/quote]

This is what I have heard about our school (starting Kinder this year) as well. How does this scapegoating play out exactly? We are hoping to move to a building that is just a few blocks away and so still in walking distance but I don’t think I’d enjoy that kind of paranoia and tribalism even if we stay in bounds for the full year. [/quote]

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