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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]We're IB for Hardy too and are happy to see more IB families signing up. But that does not make us "scared whitey" racists. Please folks. We could care less if a large portion of the school is made up of motivated, respectful OOB students. But we are indeed cheered that our DS may be able to move on to a neighborhood middle school with a group of elementary peers who have grown up together. Who wouldn't want that? That hope does not exclude other students from OOB. Might there be a tipping point at which time there won't be OOB seats available? Sure. But I do think that [b]IB students should be the priority as a quality of life issue for all[/b], commute-wise and neighborhood cohesiveness- wise. Are there racially-segregated neighborhoods, however unfortunate that may be? Yes. But let's integrate though housing policies rather than by shipping kids all around town every day. [b]And let's work toward strong schools in every neighborhood.[/b][/quote]

As with your post, the effort toward strong schools in every neighborhood, is just an afterthought.  It should be the main objective.  I don't think anyone would disagree with anything you've said here, but for the majority of the city, there's no Hardy to fight over.  There's no council member, no DCPS administrator, no mayor nor mayoral candidate promising anything even close to it anywhere else.  My neighborhood middle school has been closed with hardly a peep about re-opening--not even a "hey, we'll think about it if we can get X-Number of families to commit"--let alone private home meetings with concerned parents.  And there are maaaany inbound families, with the same hopes and high expectations that you have--but no one who seems to be listening to our needs.

So we have no choice but to consider other schools in other parts of the city.  And that will continue to happen until this city moves beyond lip service and starts making a real effort at strong schools in [i]every [/i]neighborhood.

It's not an issue of housing policies, because the high number of gentrifiers in wards 1, 2, 4, 5 and 6 have really made integration a non-issue.  The issue is that the schools in these areas is still pretty much an afterthought.  If DCPS and the education committee are 3607 Tupelo Place
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PP here. I agree and would feel the same way if I lived in a neighborhood lacking in good MS options. My argument about making IB students a priority as a quality of life/reasonable commute/neighborhood cohesion issue does indeed apply to all parts of the city and I'm sorry if it looked like an after thought. ALL boats must rise together or the ones still afloat get overturned too and nobody survives! Perhaps a weird analogy but my point is that nobody wins in time if we don't ALL have good schools.[/quote]

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