Anonymous wrote:Homeless shelters be coming to Ward 3. Yep!

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Anonymous wrote:There are already a number of threads on this topic. Some start in the political discussion forum, some in off-topic, and some here, because schools. It's the same conversation over and over again.

McKinney-Vento says that students have a right to attend the school assigned to their last address or the school assigned to their current address, whether that's a shelter, a temporary apartment, or some other address.

If a shelter is built within the boundary for Janney, the school-age children living in the shelter have a right to attend Janney. If their parents would prefer that they continue to attend the school they used to live in bounds for, they have a right to attend that school and DC must provide transportation to that school.

Bowser didn't have to think through this. Reagan signed it into law in 1987.

Anyway, maybe read some of the other threads before you get in a tizzy.

Which is a pure hypothetical, because there's no way that a shelter will be built within the Janney district. Mary Cheh and the same people who protected Janney's interests on the school boundary advisory committee will see to that. Absolutely.

Anonymous wrote:There are already a number of threads on this topic. Some start in the political discussion forum, some in off-topic, and some here, because schools. It's the same conversation over and over again.

McKinney-Vento says that students have a right to attend the school assigned to their last address or the school assigned to their current address, whether that's a shelter, a temporary apartment, or some other address.

If a shelter is built within the boundary for Janney, the school-age children living in the shelter have a right to attend Janney. If their parents would prefer that they continue to attend the school they used to live in bounds for, they have a right to attend that school and DC must provide transportation to that school.

Bowser didn't have to think through this. Reagan signed it into law in 1987.

Anyway, maybe read some of the other threads before you get in a tizzy.

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Anonymous wrote:They should attend the closest school or subsidized daycare. Where is this bus coming from? Unless they are special needs, there is no 'bus' in DC. The article I read about the homeless women in MD--they were taking the bus with their kids to get to the old school and spending 4 hours a day on that. Ludicrous. The kids need to go to nearest school or the city provide a bus, so these moms or dads can get job training or start a job and start putting away money. What are the conditions for the parents by the way? What are the expectations for how they spend their day?

Before McKinney-Vento, there were often "schools" in the shelters. They weren't grade-specific, weren't desirable teaching posts, and generally had low expectations. It wasn't a good situation. So the idea that if a family became homeless, the children could continue to attend their school and receive transportation assistance was introduced. As was the ability of families to enroll in the closest school, immediately, even if they didn't have the necessary documentation.

It's not a thing that was put in place to inconvenience you. It was done to offer stability to kids without any.

As for the buses, the services do have to be requested. Sometimes folks ask. Sometimes not.

Anonymous wrote:They should attend the closest school or subsidized daycare. Where is this bus coming from? Unless they are special needs, there is no 'bus' in DC. The article I read about the homeless women in MD--they were taking the bus with their kids to get to the old school and spending 4 hours a day on that. Ludicrous. The kids need to go to nearest school or the city provide a bus, so these moms or dads can get job training or start a job and start putting away money. What are the conditions for the parents by the way? What are the expectations for how they spend their day?

Anonymous wrote:They should attend the closest school or subsidized daycare. Where is this bus coming from? Unless they are special needs, there is no 'bus' in DC. The article I read about the homeless women in MD--they were taking the bus with their kids to get to the old school and spending 4 hours a day on that. Ludicrous. The kids need to go to nearest school or the city provide a bus, so these moms or dads can get job training or start a job and start putting away money. What are the conditions for the parents by the way? What are the expectations for how they spend their day?

Anonymous wrote:The OP is the worst.

Anonymous wrote:They should attend the closest school or subsidized daycare. Where is this bus coming from? Unless they are special needs, there is no 'bus' in DC. The article I read about the homeless women in MD--they were taking the bus with their kids to get to the old school and spending 4 hours a day on that. Ludicrous. The kids need to go to nearest school or the city provide a bus, so these moms or dads can get job training or start a job and start putting away money. What are the conditions for the parents by the way? What are the expectations for how they spend their day?

Anonymous wrote:They should attend the closest school or subsidized daycare. Where is this bus coming from? Unless they are special needs, there is no 'bus' in DC. The article I read about the homeless women in MD--they were taking the bus with their kids to get to the old school and spending 4 hours a day on that. Ludicrous. The kids need to go to nearest school or the city provide a bus, so these moms or dads can get job training or start a job and start putting away money. What are the conditions for the parents by the way? What are the expectations for how they spend their day?

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Anonymous wrote:40% of the children at DC General are under age 2 (as in, age 0 or 1). When you consider the kids who are 2, or 3 but missed the deadline, most kids won't be going to any DCPS or charter school.

Of those that will, they'll be all different ages. Some will want to stay at their current school, some will already be enrolled at the IB school where their shelter is located, and some will enroll as new IB students at the school. But no grade or school is going to get a large influx of homeless children. And if families who enrolled at their new IB school move out of shelter, their kids can finish the school year there, and return at principal's discretion (same as kids who move OOB for other reasons).

None of it sounds unreasonable or too daunting to me. Most schools already have a number of homeless children. The ones that don't certainly have the fundraising and volunteer capacity to provide adequate services to the few kids who would attend.

I hope that DCPS and DCPCS come up with a way to allow these kids into nearby schools where there are programs, even for those where you need to lottery in. I'm guessing that many would be appalled by that, but these kids are some of the ones who would benefit the most from high-quality early childhood education.