Anonymous wrote:hmmm. Never one to make this about race, but does OOB stand for something else?

Yes, it means "brown kids"

Anonymous wrote:hmmm. Never one to make this about race, but does OOB stand for something else?

Yes. A lot of it is about couples buying in neighborhoods like Petworth and then sending their kids OOB to Deal and its feeders. I suppose the same thing applies to black families doing something similar. But for me it is not about race. Are you trying to make it about race?

OP thought living WOTP would be her exit from the brown kids. Welp, you thought wrong.

This is DC ya know.

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Anonymous wrote:Is there anywhere else in the US where students can go to a public school that is not their neighborhood school?

Why yes. Quite a few.

NYC to name one. I entered the lottery for high school there back in the 80s. They may calll the system something different in other cities but I believe all offer parents some type of choice.

Anonymous wrote:Is there anywhere else in the US where students can go to a public school that is not their neighborhood school?

Why yes. Quite a few.

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Anonymous wrote:I don't mind the folks who have lived in DC for generations who try to lottery into better schools across the park. It's the hipsters who buy into Petworth, Shaw, etc. who somehow feel they have just as much right to attend Janney as those who spend their life savings to buy a tiny, run down $1M center hall colonial in AU park. You moved to a transitional neighborhood. Now own it.

Us "hipsters" do not want to have anything to do with you award 3 suburbanites. Trust me. We are either in our IB school or charter. You snobs are repulsive to us.

Plus, we actually want diverse populations in our schools.

You are going to spill your tall boy PBR when I tell you this: The most diverse DCPS schools in this city are ALL in W3. Hearst, Deal, Wilson. Sorry.

Is there anywhere else in the US where students can go to a public school that is not their neighborhood school?

hmmm. Never one to make this about race, but does OOB stand for something else?

Anonymous wrote:Frankly speaking it's the OOB kids that drive IB kids away from schools like Hearst and Eaton.

Well, the OP would tell those IB families to suck it up and work on Eaton and Hearst anyway. Or move.

Frankly speaking it's the OOB kids that drive IB kids away from schools like Hearst and Eaton.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't mind the folks who have lived in DC for generations who try to lottery into better schools across the park. It's the hipsters who buy into Petworth, Shaw, etc. who somehow feel they have just as much right to attend Janney as those who spend their life savings to buy a tiny, run down $1M center hall colonial in AU park. You moved to a transitional neighborhood. Now own it.

We aren't a hipster family, but an AA family living in Brightwood who took advantage of attending Janney before it became overcrowded and popular with EOTP families. We now have a honor roll 10th grader at Wilson.

We thank you!

What are you thanking them for?

It was sarcasm since "they" believe we owe them something.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don't mind the folks who have lived in DC for generations who try to lottery into better schools across the park. It's the hipsters who buy into Petworth, Shaw, etc. who somehow feel they have just as much right to attend Janney as those who spend their life savings to buy a tiny, run down $1M center hall colonial in AU park. You moved to a transitional neighborhood. Now own it.

We aren't a hipster family, but an AA family living in Brightwood who took advantage of attending Janney before it became overcrowded and popular with EOTP families. We now have a honor roll 10th grader at Wilson.

We thank you!

What are you thanking them for?

Anonymous wrote:I don't mind the folks who have lived in DC for generations who try to lottery into better schools across the park. It's the hipsters who buy into Petworth, Shaw, etc. who somehow feel they have just as much right to attend Janney as those who spend their life savings to buy a tiny, run down $1M center hall colonial in AU park. You moved to a transitional neighborhood. Now own it.

We aren't a hipster family, but an AA family living in Brightwood who took advantage of attending Janney before it became overcrowded and popular with EOTP families. We now have a honor roll 10th grader at Wilson.

We thank you!

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Anonymous wrote:0P here. I am not against out of boundary students per se. What I am against is the overcrowding in our high-performing schools because parents of low performing schools won't take the hard and uncomfortable actions to increase standards at their schools.

"Increasing standards" is code for "increasing high SES students." that's what makes the sought after schools sought after.

Given that we are talking about public schools here, the administration would be working to make all schools good. Parents shouldn't be required to work at no cost to get a good education for their children in their own neighborhood. This is not an easy task, but it is the primary job of the school district, not the parents. The parents job is to pay taxes and provide a good home for their children and to make sure they get to school ready to learn.