The early poster who said the new school location didn’t make sense because Rock Creek Park has always been a racial, cultural and socio-economic boundary said that as though it was a good thing. Build that wall!

Anonymous wrote:I have no cat in this fight but why in the world would the mayor be so rude? It would be ludicrous to move Lafayette across the park. Was she going to provide busses to take the kids back and forth? DC kids walk to school which would no longer be possible. Bowser is so incredibly shitty.

There are kids within Lafayette's boundary who cannot walk to Lafayette.

Anonymous wrote:I have no cat in this fight but why in the world would the mayor be so rude? It would be ludicrous to move Lafayette across the park. Was she going to provide busses to take the kids back and forth? DC kids walk to school which would no longer be possible. Bowser is so incredibly shitty.

She is definitely shitty - but calling Lafayette parents out on their pyrrhic hypocrisy was actually pretty great.

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Anonymous wrote:I have no cat in this fight but why in the world would the mayor be so rude? It would be ludicrous to move Lafayette across the park. Was she going to provide busses to take the kids back and forth? DC kids walk to school which would no longer be possible. Bowser is so incredibly shitty.

Tons of DC kids don’t walk to school

More than half, given that about that attend charter schools.

Anonymous wrote:I have no cat in this fight but why in the world would the mayor be so rude? It would be ludicrous to move Lafayette across the park. Was she going to provide busses to take the kids back and forth? DC kids walk to school which would no longer be possible. Bowser is so incredibly shitty.

Tons of DC kids don’t walk to school

I have no cat in this fight but why in the world would the mayor be so rude? It would be ludicrous to move Lafayette across the park. Was she going to provide busses to take the kids back and forth? DC kids walk to school which would no longer be possible. Bowser is so incredibly shitty.

When I told one Lafayette parent that we were sending our child to the Military Road school, she physically winced and asked "why on Earth would you do that?"

This family has a BLM sign in their front yard.

70% of Lafayette parents voted to reduce the size of their preK by half rather than take the chance that black and brown students at Brightwood would be allowed to join their preK and potentially gain feeder rights to Lafayette in the upper grades - hard to deny this kind of bigotry.

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Anonymous wrote:Easier for Bowser to throw shade than make tough decisions about DCPS. You know, govern.

Ok — so what exactly would have been the “tough” decision for her to have made with respect to this?

Re-draw some boundaries so schools are not overcrowded. Too politically difficult.

Is that what people in the Lafayette zone actually want? To shrink the geographic size of the zone and shift kids in it to other zones?

Of course they don't want that, because logic would dictate that white Lafayette kids get sent across the park in such a scenario, which would make the Lafayette Karens lose their minds.

So lazy. So misogynistic.

Hi Karen.

And proud of being lazy and misogynistic.

Good thing that term is going the way of others used to try to shut up women in years past. You’re on the wrong side, my friend.

I guarantee you were one of the people who fought the Military Road school the loudest and demanded that DC buy a building that wasn't for sale so that wealthy white people like yourself could continue to self segregate.

Enjoy your trailers and the loss of PK at Lafayette. You've certainly earned it

It sounds like you don’t go to Lafayette, but this issue of claimed overcrowding really bothers you. Why do you care?

Because it bothers me when wealthy, privileged white people are offered a perfectly reasonable solution to a problem, reject that solution out of hand because of nebulous, ever-changing reasons, demand a completely unreasonable alternative (buying a building that wasn't even for sale) and then whine like children when the city says no. Their kids and my kid will soon be going to the same school, and I don't want anything to do with them.

I can confirm that your kids can get through all years at Lafayette and you can mostly avoid these people. It's harder in the early years because of the social element for the kids. But you don't have to go to any auctions or participate in any adult social activities and your kids will be just fine. At least you figured it out before you got there.

Anonymous wrote:I'm just learning about this issue and have no dog in the fight. But the Military Road school is only a 7 minute drive from Lafayette, so even parents who had to drop one kid at Lafayette and the other at Military Road, could do it and not be late for school. These same people will soon be driving their Prek'er even farther for an expensive private PreK. And should they choose private shcool for all their kids, they will be driving even farther.

The Military Road school was actually an ideal location. Those lucky enough to get into Latin will drive by it every day anyway and go farther to take their kid to shcool.

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It’s like there’s some invisible line they aren’t willing to cross- 12 minute drive to Wilson? No problem. 7 minute drive ACROSS the park? No way.

I'm just learning about this issue and have no dog in the fight. But the Military Road school is only a 7 minute drive from Lafayette, so even parents who had to drop one kid at Lafayette and the other at Military Road, could do it and not be late for school. These same people will soon be driving their Prek'er even farther for an expensive private PreK. And should they choose private shcool for all their kids, they will be driving even farther.

The Military Road school was actually an ideal location. Those lucky enough to get into Latin will drive by it every day anyway and go farther to take their kid to shcool.

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Anonymous wrote:Easier for Bowser to throw shade than make tough decisions about DCPS. You know, govern.

Ok — so what exactly would have been the “tough” decision for her to have made with respect to this?

Re-draw some boundaries so schools are not overcrowded. Too politically difficult.

Is that what people in the Lafayette zone actually want? To shrink the geographic size of the zone and shift kids in it to other zones?

Of course they don't want that, because logic would dictate that white Lafayette kids get sent across the park in such a scenario, which would make the Lafayette Karens lose their minds.

So lazy. So misogynistic.

Hi Karen.

And proud of being lazy and misogynistic.

Good thing that term is going the way of others used to try to shut up women in years past. You’re on the wrong side, my friend.

I guarantee you were one of the people who fought the Military Road school the loudest and demanded that DC buy a building that wasn't for sale so that wealthy white people like yourself could continue to self segregate.

Enjoy your trailers and the loss of PK at Lafayette. You've certainly earned it

It sounds like you don’t go to Lafayette, but this issue of claimed overcrowding really bothers you. Why do you care?

Because it bothers me when wealthy, privileged white people are offered a perfectly reasonable solution to a problem, reject that solution out of hand because of nebulous, ever-changing reasons, demand a completely unreasonable alternative (buying a building that wasn't even for sale) and then whine like children when the city says no. Their kids and my kid will soon be going to the same school, and I don't want anything to do with them.

You sound as fragile as the people you’re complaining about. Buck up! How is you’re being bothered going to do anything about these parents going being in the same school? And who says you have to have anything to do with them? Not sure if you’ve been told but there are always going to be people in your orbit whose company you don’t prefer. That’s life for most people.

Anyway I am a Lafayette parent but didn’t care about the PK4 issue. I see why the parents didn’t want a school across the park but I also think that they just get rid of PK4 altogether at Lafayette (if they can’t find a building in bounds) to make room for the mandatory grades.

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Anonymous wrote:Easier for Bowser to throw shade than make tough decisions about DCPS. You know, govern.

Ok — so what exactly would have been the “tough” decision for her to have made with respect to this?

Re-draw some boundaries so schools are not overcrowded. Too politically difficult.

Is that what people in the Lafayette zone actually want? To shrink the geographic size of the zone and shift kids in it to other zones?

Of course they don't want that, because logic would dictate that white Lafayette kids get sent across the park in such a scenario, which would make the Lafayette Karens lose their minds.

So lazy. So misogynistic.

Hi Karen.

And proud of being lazy and misogynistic.

Good thing that term is going the way of others used to try to shut up women in years past. You’re on the wrong side, my friend.

I guarantee you were one of the people who fought the Military Road school the loudest and demanded that DC buy a building that wasn't for sale so that wealthy white people like yourself could continue to self segregate.

Enjoy your trailers and the loss of PK at Lafayette. You've certainly earned it

It sounds like you don’t go to Lafayette, but this issue of claimed overcrowding really bothers you. Why do you care?

Because it bothers me when wealthy, privileged white people are offered a perfectly reasonable solution to a problem, reject that solution out of hand because of nebulous, ever-changing reasons, demand a completely unreasonable alternative (buying a building that wasn't even for sale) and then whine like children when the city says no. Their kids and my kid will soon be going to the same school, and I don't want anything to do with them.

Then don’t have anything to do with them. Snooty people don’t care if you associate with them, so it’s not like this is leading to some sort of personal confrontation for you. Now if you are going to blame their KIDS for their parents decisions and not want them to mix with your kids, that sounds like YOU have a problem. And you ain’t sounding any better then how you paint the Lafayette parents.

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Anonymous wrote:Easier for Bowser to throw shade than make tough decisions about DCPS. You know, govern.

Ok — so what exactly would have been the “tough” decision for her to have made with respect to this?

Re-draw some boundaries so schools are not overcrowded. Too politically difficult.

Is that what people in the Lafayette zone actually want? To shrink the geographic size of the zone and shift kids in it to other zones?

Of course they don't want that, because logic would dictate that white Lafayette kids get sent across the park in such a scenario, which would make the Lafayette Karens lose their minds.

So lazy. So misogynistic.

Hi Karen.

And proud of being lazy and misogynistic.

Good thing that term is going the way of others used to try to shut up women in years past. You’re on the wrong side, my friend.

I guarantee you were one of the people who fought the Military Road school the loudest and demanded that DC buy a building that wasn't for sale so that wealthy white people like yourself could continue to self segregate.

Enjoy your trailers and the loss of PK at Lafayette. You've certainly earned it

It sounds like you don’t go to Lafayette, but this issue of claimed overcrowding really bothers you. Why do you care?

Because it bothers me when wealthy, privileged white people are offered a perfectly reasonable solution to a problem, reject that solution out of hand because of nebulous, ever-changing reasons, demand a completely unreasonable alternative (buying a building that wasn't even for sale) and then whine like children when the city says no. Their kids and my kid will soon be going to the same school, and I don't want anything to do with them.

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Anonymous wrote:Easier for Bowser to throw shade than make tough decisions about DCPS. You know, govern.

Ok — so what exactly would have been the “tough” decision for her to have made with respect to this?

Re-draw some boundaries so schools are not overcrowded. Too politically difficult.

Is that what people in the Lafayette zone actually want? To shrink the geographic size of the zone and shift kids in it to other zones?

Of course they don't want that, because logic would dictate that white Lafayette kids get sent across the park in such a scenario, which would make the Lafayette Karens lose their minds.

So lazy. So misogynistic.

Hi Karen.

And proud of being lazy and misogynistic.

Good thing that term is going the way of others used to try to shut up women in years past. You’re on the wrong side, my friend.

I guarantee you were one of the people who fought the Military Road school the loudest and demanded that DC buy a building that wasn't for sale so that wealthy white people like yourself could continue to self segregate.

Enjoy your trailers and the loss of PK at Lafayette. You've certainly earned it

It sounds like you don’t go to Lafayette, but this issue of claimed overcrowding really bothers you. Why do you care?