Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:oversight from the feds has varied over the past 30 years i've lived in DC - some neutral, some positive and some bad. Depends on who they put in charge. Someone like Lauch Faircloth for example would not be good - he used it as a campaign prop to show people back home how much he was bashing the District, when we actually give more to the feds than we get unlike many states that voted in the new administration

I’ve also lived here for nearly 30 years, and I think we are about to face something unprecedented since the advent of home rule. This will be full-scale fed takeover, with the goal of killing public education in DC. Here’s what I anticipate in the near future: “don’t say gay” type language control, no lessons that involve race, no recognition of non-cis gender identities, end of protections against harassment based on race/gender/identity, prayer/religion in school. Everything you’ve heard about in Florida and Oklahoma and other states on the vanguard of destroying public education will come here. Anything bad we thought we had seen in terms of past interference will seem minor compared with what’s coming.

My youngest graduates in 2026, so we don’t have much choice but to stick it out. But if I had younger children, I’d be seriously considering a move to Maryland (and we are considering this after our kid graduates). I love this city, and my kids have had good experiences in DCPS. But I think a lot is going to change pretty quickly.

Other than prayer/religion...nothing else you mention has much to do with education. I get it's bad from a society standpoint.

The issue with DC is let's say they create some massive voucher program, there literally is nowhere for anyone to go. It's not like any private school doesn't already receive significantly more applications than slots. The private schools that do have slots are at schools that nobody wants to attend (there are lots of private schools nobody has ever heard of because they actually have terrible academic results).

there already is a voucher program in DC and it basically doesn’t do much.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain what you’re talking about for a progressive immigrant with two kids in an awesome DCPS elementary who was looking forward to sending them to DCPS middle?

We could lose Home Rule. This is a good primer:
https://51st.news/what-to-know-about-dc-home-rule/

the last time we “lost home rule” it was good for DC schools. there’s no reason to believe there’s going to be a disaster.

Why are comments getting deleted from this thread …?

Anonymous wrote:Can someone explain what you’re talking about for a progressive immigrant with two kids in an awesome DCPS elementary who was looking forward to sending them to DCPS middle?

We could lose Home Rule. This is a good primer:
https://51st.news/what-to-know-about-dc-home-rule/

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:oversight from the feds has varied over the past 30 years i've lived in DC - some neutral, some positive and some bad. Depends on who they put in charge. Someone like Lauch Faircloth for example would not be good - he used it as a campaign prop to show people back home how much he was bashing the District, when we actually give more to the feds than we get unlike many states that voted in the new administration

I’ve also lived here for nearly 30 years, and I think we are about to face something unprecedented since the advent of home rule. This will be full-scale fed takeover, with the goal of killing public education in DC. Here’s what I anticipate in the near future: “don’t say gay” type language control, no lessons that involve race, no recognition of non-cis gender identities, end of protections against harassment based on race/gender/identity, prayer/religion in school. Everything you’ve heard about in Florida and Oklahoma and other states on the vanguard of destroying public education will come here. Anything bad we thought we had seen in terms of past interference will seem minor compared with what’s coming.

My youngest graduates in 2026, so we don’t have much choice but to stick it out. But if I had younger children, I’d be seriously considering a move to Maryland (and we are considering this after our kid graduates). I love this city, and my kids have had good experiences in DCPS. But I think a lot is going to change pretty quickly.

Other than prayer/religion...nothing else you mention has much to do with education. I get it's bad from a society standpoint.

The issue with DC is let's say they create some massive voucher program, there literally is nowhere for anyone to go. It's not like any private school doesn't already receive significantly more applications than slots. The private schools that do have slots are at schools that nobody wants to attend (there are lots of private schools nobody has ever heard of because they actually have terrible academic results).

Can someone explain what you’re talking about for a progressive immigrant with two kids in an awesome DCPS elementary who was looking forward to sending them to DCPS middle?

Anonymous wrote:oversight from the feds has varied over the past 30 years i've lived in DC - some neutral, some positive and some bad. Depends on who they put in charge. Someone like Lauch Faircloth for example would not be good - he used it as a campaign prop to show people back home how much he was bashing the District, when we actually give more to the feds than we get unlike many states that voted in the new administration

I’ve also lived here for nearly 30 years, and I think we are about to face something unprecedented since the advent of home rule. This will be full-scale fed takeover, with the goal of killing public education in DC. Here’s what I anticipate in the near future: “don’t say gay” type language control, no lessons that involve race, no recognition of non-cis gender identities, end of protections against harassment based on race/gender/identity, prayer/religion in school. Everything you’ve heard about in Florida and Oklahoma and other states on the vanguard of destroying public education will come here. Anything bad we thought we had seen in terms of past interference will seem minor compared with what’s coming.

My youngest graduates in 2026, so we don’t have much choice but to stick it out. But if I had younger children, I’d be seriously considering a move to Maryland (and we are considering this after our kid graduates). I love this city, and my kids have had good experiences in DCPS. But I think a lot is going to change pretty quickly.

oversight from the feds has varied over the past 30 years i've lived in DC - some neutral, some positive and some bad. Depends on who they put in charge. Someone like Lauch Faircloth for example would not be good - he used it as a campaign prop to show people back home how much he was bashing the District, when we actually give more to the feds than we get unlike many states that voted in the new administration

I have no way of predicting. Having said that, in your calculus, depending on kids' ages, you may want to consider the benefits of having in-state college tuition at options other than UDC. I have a 12th grader and wish we had moved to the suburbs before she started high school so that we'd have MD or VA universities financially in closer reach.

Worry about the 100k jobs he may want to ship out....The threat of a control board may make the awful leadership actually do something..

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Anonymous wrote:I mean, the last control board really bailed out DCPS and is the reason DCPS is an option for you now.

Somehow I think a second Trump administration is going to be different from the Clinton administration.

If you think a control board is going to make things worse at DCPS I think you’re a bit batty.

Anonymous wrote:I mean, the last control board really bailed out DCPS and is the reason DCPS is an option for you now.

Somehow I think a second Trump administration is going to be different from the Clinton administration.

I’d take Federal rule in DC any day if I could trade it for a U.S. Senator.

If you care about education in DC, the mayor isn’t doing anything. The bureaucrats are. They’re going to keep doing their jobs. Lauren Boebert isn’t going to run the DC DMV.

I mean, the last control board really bailed out DCPS and is the reason DCPS is an option for you now.

Coming up with some decision points on what would make us moved out of the District. This would be one of them. Does anyone have thoughts? Insights?