Anonymous
Post 03/06/2015 16:39     Subject: Why don't out of boundary parents work on their own schools?
And...this is why I send my kid to a city-wide charter school. OP (and others) are just gross.

Anonymous
Post 03/06/2015 16:39     Subject: Why don't out of boundary parents work on their own schools?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Lol that OP thinks her kid's school is high performing because of all her super-awesome PTA participation.
This. +1.


Possibly she believes it's high-performing because of all the side-eye she casts on those shabby lottery kids.

Nothing makes for a great learning environment like classist bullshit from PTA parents who are pissed because they can't quite swing private.
Anonymous
Post 03/06/2015 16:38     Subject: Why don't out of boundary parents work on their own schools?
Anonymous wrote:well said OP well said, some will do amazing things to make changes others will quit and go the path of least resistance. I am with you,. improve your own school or be able to afford to live in the area where you want your kid to go to school.



Ew. As a wealthy person I find you repulsive.
Anonymous
Post 03/06/2015 16:37     Subject: Why don't out of boundary parents work on their own schools?
Anonymous wrote:Lol that OP thinks her kid's school is high performing because of all her super-awesome PTA participation.
This. +1.
Anonymous
Post 03/06/2015 16:34     Subject: Why don't out of boundary parents work on their own schools?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:WTF do you care if someone comes into your school from OOB?

I care if the OOB students are causing my school to go way over the capacity cap, because that results in lower quality for everyone.


That sounds like a problem with DCPS opening up too many seats, not with the people who sign up for an available spot.

Only IB students get to attend by right - the rest have to deal with available spots in the lottery.
Anonymous
Post 03/06/2015 16:33     Subject: Why don't out of boundary parents work on their own schools?
Lol that OP thinks her kid's school is high performing because of all her super-awesome PTA participation.
Anonymous
Post 03/06/2015 16:33     Subject: Why don't out of boundary parents work on their own schools?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:Often "your schools are great" because the parents have money. Money equals resources. Money equals time (to volunteer, to fundraise, to XYZ). It's a tremendously complex issue and it can't be boiled down to the usual nonsense about hard workers versus free-riders. Stop trying.

So let me get this straight: You're saying that when people go to OOB schools, they're free-riding off the in-bounds parents who have enough money and time to have made their own schools great?

Are you sure you don't want to revise your statement?


No. That is not what my statement says. Reread it.
Anonymous
Post 03/06/2015 16:30     Subject: Why don't out of boundary parents work on their own schools?
Anonymous wrote:WTF do you care if someone comes into your school from OOB?

I care if the OOB students are causing my school to go way over the capacity cap, because that results in lower quality for everyone.
Anonymous
Post 03/06/2015 16:29     Subject: Why don't out of boundary parents work on their own schools?
Anonymous wrote:Seriously. We live in a house valued at 789k and the school is almost all low income and super under performing. Almost all the kids from a single housing project at the local IB. So only in DC can you spend almost 1mil to live in a shitty IB school. I guess my husband and I need to work harder.

... or buy a smaller house in a better neighborhood.
Anonymous
Post 03/06/2015 16:26     Subject: Why don't out of boundary parents work on their own schools?
Anonymous wrote:Often "your schools are great" because the parents have money. Money equals resources. Money equals time (to volunteer, to fundraise, to XYZ). It's a tremendously complex issue and it can't be boiled down to the usual nonsense about hard workers versus free-riders. Stop trying.

So let me get this straight: You're saying that when people go to OOB schools, they're free-riding off the in-bounds parents who have enough money and time to have made their own schools great?

Are you sure you don't want to revise your statement?
Anonymous
Post 03/06/2015 16:25     Subject: Why don't out of boundary parents work on their own schools?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:So start a damn PTA. So raise funds for the school. Call someone a channel 9 or at channel 5. You can do things to make your schools better. And blaming families because they've worked hard and they can afford to live in a wealthy your neighborhood that comes with the territory.


Because nobody in a less-than-stellar school ever, ever works hard. It's just a life of lounging on the beach over here.

Look, you're insecure about something. You feel your own little fragile status is somehow Threatened by the Poors.

We get that. We just aren't going to pat your head about it.


Seriously. We live in a house valued at 789k and the school is almost all low income and super under performing. Almost all the kids from a single housing project at the local IB. So only in DC can you spend almost 1mil to live in a shitty IB school. I guess my husband and I need to work harder.
Anonymous
Post 03/06/2015 16:21     Subject: Why don't out of boundary parents work on their own schools?
WTF do you care if someone comes into your school from OOB?

My kids are at my IB school, but I welcome the other families regardless of where they come from.
Anonymous
Post 03/06/2015 16:18     Subject: Why don't out of boundary parents work on their own schools?
Anonymous wrote:Stop asking if you can get in if you are OOB. It's that type of behavior that will never fix the schools.


Because I don't care about fixing my school. I want to go to your school, even if I am OOB. If you don't want OOB to get in, what are you doing to change the process to restrict schools only to those in-boundary?
Anonymous
Post 03/06/2015 16:17     Subject: Why don't out of boundary parents work on their own schools?
Anonymous wrote:So start a damn PTA. So raise funds for the school. Call someone a channel 9 or at channel 5. You can do things to make your schools better. And blaming families because they've worked hard and they can afford to live in a wealthy your neighborhood that comes with the territory.


Because nobody in a less-than-stellar school ever, ever works hard. It's just a life of lounging on the beach over here.

Look, you're insecure about something. You feel your own little fragile status is somehow Threatened by the Poors.

We get that. We just aren't going to pat your head about it.
Anonymous
Post 03/06/2015 16:16     Subject: Why don't out of boundary parents work on their own schools?
Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:So tell us what you've done to improve schools


... this also.


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