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[quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]I have grown very frustrated throughout this whole boundary process at how many people (from each and every different neighborhood) seem to feel their own particular neighborhood has some inviolable right to the most-desired schools, and that other neighborhoods should be forced out instead.  Hardly anyone seems focused on what's best for DCPS as a whole.  I suspect part of my agitation about this topic arose when I was seeing the same narrow parochial interests appearing here.

If it's just too annoying to everyone else to have to support their positions, I can drop it.  FWIW though, I still don't see any logical reason Shepherd and Bancroft ought to be linked to Wilson/Deal.  And since I did not start this thread, I suspect I'm not alone.[/quote]
Well, if I've done nothing else, I hope I have shown that I am not focusing parochial interests (that is, in addition to showing that I don't now anything about Bancroft). The parochial argument for me would be ...[/quote]
Jeff, I'm not accusing you individually of focusing on parochial interests.  Or rather, at least when you have focused on parochial interests, you generally seem to acknowledge what you're doing (if only by signing your posts, which I gather you do each and every time).

Since there were so many posts last night accusing me of some hidden bias ([i]17:55:"Based on this in bold, you are either a Ward 3 resident or else trolling. No-one else would argue ..."[/i]), I'm quoting here my self-description from another thread: 
[quote] Let me make my position clear: I don't live in Ward 3. Not in Shepherd Park, not in Petworth, not in Georgetown, not anywhere that's affected in any way by the current boundary proposal. I get zero benefit, and zero harm, from these proposals. So I've got no self-interest in pushing any particular boundaries. I am hoping to move in the next 1-2 years, and I'm considering several neighborhoods that are affected by these proposals, so I'm watching closely. But I don't really care where the particular boundaries get drawn, since I've got the luxury of choosing after-the-fact. So for better or worse, my only interest is in improving DCPS as a whole. [/quote]
And here is how I described myself earlier in this thread:
[quote]And (unfortunately) I'm not in any neighborhood that benefits from any of these boundary changes, so I've got no personal stake in the outcome.[/quote]
I'm fairly frustrated by the discussion so far, and I have work to do, so I'm signing off for now.  If I join back in later, I'll create a login to avoid some of this confusion and perhaps minimize the (false) accusations.[/quote]

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