Anonymous wrote:And why does it matter that Shepherd is EotP? Sherherd families can make the same arguments of tradition and expectation (based on real estate investment, etc.) as families who live WotP. And I'm PP who are are calling pathetic and I'm white and wealthy and my children don't attend Shepherd or any school that feeds to Deal. But it's obvious what this whole "cut Shepherd out" campaign is all about. Get real.

This is why they attend Deal and always have.

And why does it matter that Shepherd is EotP? Sherherd families can make the same arguments of tradition and expectation (based on real estate investment, etc.) as families who live WotP. And I'm PP who are are calling pathetic and I'm white and wealthy and my children don't attend Shepherd or any school that feeds to Deal. But it's obvious what this whole "cut Shepherd out" campaign is all about. Get real.

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Anonymous wrote:To the shepherd park parents: others do join k-8 later at some schools, so you can stop saying you have no alternative to Deal.

Oh do shut up. Education campuses have proven to be a failure and why would families want to JOIN a failing school late in the game when many of those children have been attending that school since PK/ Please take your "get the dark-skinned kids out of Deal" advocacy campaign elsewhere.

+1 it's not going to happen. Sorry. You have to out up with my brown kid whether you like it or not.

^^ person of color here. You can try to racial if you want. You still won't get any sympathy. Shepherd Park geographically belongs EofP. Simple. The race card thing just makes you sound pathetic.

Anonymous wrote:To the shepherd park parents: others do join k-8 later at some schools, so you can stop saying you have no alternative to Deal.

Oh do shut up. Education campuses have proven to be a failure and why would families want to JOIN a failing school late in the game when many of those children have been attending that school since PK/ Please take your "get the dark-skinned kids out of Deal" advocacy campaign elsewhere.

We are inbound for Walker-Jones and JO Wilson for PS4.

Anonymous wrote:To the shepherd park parents: others do join k-8 later at some schools, so you can stop saying you have no alternative to Deal.

They do not. The same resources aren't pulled into education campuses as they are with stand alone middle schools.

To the shepherd park parents: others do join k-8 later at some schools, so you can stop saying you have no alternative to Deal.

Two years ago the lottery system showed me inboundary for both Barnard and Raymond. I believe this was because Raymond would be our middle school, since it's an Education Campus (meaning elementary through middle). So, if we wanted to just be at the same school for all those years because consistency was important to us, we could. School closings come into play too when this happens (multiple "inboundary" school options)

I'm in boundary for Brookland Bunker Hill and Riggs Lasalle. Just pops up when I put in my address.

Yes, they are actually in-boundary for the schools, no proximity preference. 2-3 school pop up as being their in-boundary elementary schools when they use the online tool.

I think it has something to do with some schools shutting down and the boundaries expanding. It is weird. I am only in-boundary for one school (Cooke), but there are people who can apply to Cooke, Tubman, and Garrison for PK and get in-boundary preference for all three. I assume this is something that the boundary/feeder review will deal with.

Did they tell you they were IB for several? Did they put in their address and several showed up?
I thought once you put the address in, only 1 school shows up for elementary, one for middle and one for high school.
Must be some under-enrolled schools when one gets to choose.

Sure. There are several people I have met who are in-boundary for Tubman (Columbia Heights), H.D. Cooke (Adams-Morgan), and Garrison (Logan Circle). They seem to live around the U street area. I have also met people who are in-boundary for Francis-Stevens and Ross. Similarly, I have met people in boundary for Francis-Stevens and Marie Reed.

Can you give an example?

I found it interesting that some people are in boundary for more than one school (at least at the elementary school level). This seems weird to me--definitely not the case where I grew up, and not for me now. Why is it that some people get to choose among several in-boundary options? Will this change in the boundary review process?