In the link above, he basically agrees that the result of his proposal is that people like him will flee for the suburbs. WTF.

I am still so pissed about this. I mean, I hate whiners who ac like FARMS kids are going to ruin their special snowflake. I think the amount of poverty and race disparity in DC is a crime. I think people who buy in the Brent zone and think that gives them a manifest destiny to go to Brent are idiots. But I am fairly certain that destroying positive change in neighborhood schools, and pushing middle class families out of DC, is going to be bad for everyone in the city.

He even commented on the post article and tried to hawk his book. Pretty lame.

Anonymous wrote:More from Mike Petrelli (and his own school choices) here:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/schools-dilemma-for-urban-gentrifiers-keep-their-kids-urban-or-move-to-suburbia/2012/10/14/02083b6c-131b-11e2-a16b-2c110031514a_story.html

I love it! Thanks for posting.

Don't you almost feel sorry for how 'haunted" he is?. Now after not being able to stomach 33% FARMS in his own local school he is trying to exorcise his demons by mandating for everyone else a 50% FARMS kids in schools policy (but not for really rich people of course).

More from Mike Petrelli (and his own school choices) here:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/schools-dilemma-for-urban-gentrifiers-keep-their-kids-urban-or-move-to-suburbia/2012/10/14/02083b6c-131b-11e2-a16b-2c110031514a_story.html

Anonymous wrote:
- We have to figure something out and it won't be a test in GT school, those exist and we aren't using them now. Banneker is a good school, McKinley has the potential.

They don't exist for middle school. If you've already bailed on DCPS for middle school, are you really going to consider returning for high school?

My prediction is that if politicians don't mess with it, the charter sector will expand to accommodate demand and DCPS middle schools that have a little momentum --maybe just Hardy--may become good choices due to crowding pressures elsewhere. Plus charters like 2 Rivers, EL Haynes, Cap City seem to be gaining traction. Bottom line is that there will probably be good enough options to sift through if the system continues as is. Now if the Deputy Mayor comes up with some harebrained idea to socially engineer schools to be all 50% or more low-income in order to "spread the wealth", theN all bets are off

Good questions 21:50. Doesn't look like enough slots for all of us. Many parents I talk to are in wait and see mode. But we really need to do something now!

Anonymous wrote:The good thing about living in dc is every 3 to 5 years you get to observe an entire school system being reinvented.

+1

And a every few years someone comes here from Iowa or Kansas and wants to make things "better" for us.

Beyond being pissed several people have made some good points here

We can all stipulate that Petrilli is a hypocrite. Once he wrote that book and then moved to Bethesda, he does not have room to talk.

However- redistricting is happening, most of us with younger children that live outside the current Deal/Hardy boundaries are not going to get into that sequence.

So what are your options

-Maybe the DCI high school works?
-Maybe Latin and Basis figure out how to expand another 150 seats if we are lucky
-Some type of cluster is formed allowed some mixture of middle/upper parents and FARM kids because if we are EOTP all of our neighborhoods have some to attend in the middle of the city.

- We have to figure something out and it won't be a test in GT school, those exist and we aren't using them now. Banneker is a good school, McKinley has the potential.

-Personally, I want to live in the city and as someone posted earlier, Montgomery County has its own issues and I can't really afford to live in Bethesda or Potomac so somehow, I need to make this work.

-Assuming you cannot go to Deal/Hardy/Wilson route and want to stay in the city what are you going to do?

The good thing about living in dc is every 3 to 5 years you get to observe an entire school system being reinvented.

I was thinking mayoral primarily

I'd like to see education policy on the mayoral and city council candidates (especially in wards that would be affected).

I would really like to get details on education policy from each of the mayoral candidates school. It is not easy to find anything about them.

I'd think both political and school candidates...