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I think you give current Brent parents too little credit.  They very much care about the boundary review process insofar as it potentially impacts every aspect of the school day.  First, they have invested in Brent and their community for a number of years and want to see the school continue to improve.  Second, albeit somewhat related, they very much care about whether DCPS is going to situate mobile classrooms on the Brent grounds, particularly if it means losing playground or other common area space, which affects everything from PE to aftercare activities.  Third, they very much care because the number of students at Brent affects scheduling of specials (art, music, foreign language), as well as the time allocated for lunch, recess and other activities.  Fourth, they very much care because redistricting may have an impact on property values and tax burdens.     [/quote]

Points taken, but parents of young children have limited discretionary time and energy.  Nobody with children at the school organized a meeting about boundaries, although DCPS announced the review in January.  The discussion didn't begin until March, when 47 rising IB families landed on Brent waiting lists.  It will be a tricky discussion by nature, at high risk of dissolving into a mean-spirited free for all.

Situating mobile classrooms on the Brent grounds eventually may or may not be the worst outcome.

I'm having a hard time imagining parents on the blocks around G, I and Ellen Wilson being happy driving kids to a beat-up (and only partially renovated) tree-less campus, an unknown quantity of a school, one serving a different neighborhood and situated 10 feet off crazy M.   Few would want kids to walk across I and Virginia to reach Van Ness.  Many bought in the Brent District so they wouldn't need to deal with their kids' commutes to school.

There is surely no comprehensive win-win solution on the horizon.  Compromises are going to have to be ironed out to soften some of the blows.

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