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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So far, none of the Weedon critics in this thread have pointed to an actual quote in which Weedon indicated that parents should choose schools like Eastern over higher-performing options.

Do any of you have such an example, with a link? Just one? Something to back up your accusations of hypocrisy?

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PP: Weedon himself has said over and over publicly and in thousands of conversations that he does believe education in our city would be better for all if more people ( you )  sent their kids to their neighborhood school.   And that it was an agonizing time when he had to wrestle with his daughter’s choice for high school.

This is from the Post article

“ Weedon, a nonprofit leader and former representative on the D.C. State Board of Education, believes that if more students in the District attended the schools around the block from their homes, education would be better — for everyone.

He has stood on that pulpit as a father and an elected official, always able to say he sends his two children to the elementary and middle schools blocks away from his home.”

I am not a person who would call him—or others in his like-minded circle who have sent kids to Walls, Gonzaga, moved out of DC due to school etc.—hypocrites.

To me, they are all kind of naive and idealogical and inadvertently alienated others by acting like coming up through elementary and middle they had it all figured out and if ONLY the rest of us would friggin get on board we could FIX this mess.  There is a close-mindedness there to the priorities and expertise of others, and also a fair degree of paternalism and saviourism.

This all makes for easy crier of hypocrisy from those left with feelings of distaste, but I’m not sure it is pure hypocrisy.  Let’s call it “ a learning curve”[/quote]

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