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Anonymous wrote:According to a neighbor who is an Eaton mom, the local school community in Cleveland Park is getting pretty energized to fight any re-assignment to Hardy.

I'm sure that they are (though again, Hardy is a fine school). Someone will likely have to move though. Eaton already feeds both into Hardy and Deal. I was at a forum where David Catania (who doesn't get to decide, of course) flat out said to Ward 3 residents that it wasn't likely that Shepherd would be zoned out of Deal, but very likely that Eaton would.

I guess it is pretty likely that Catania will lose Cleveland Park then -- he needs to win Ward 3 bigtime to become mayor!

I should clarify that he didn't say that was what he wanted to do. He said that was what was likely to happen because of the threat of court challenges.

but you can't go to court and say, but i LIVE closer?

Not sure about the proximity issue but you can definitely go to court and say that boundary changes have reduced diversity and contribute to racial isolation. The Department of Justice has guidance for school districts on this issue.
http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2011/December/11-ag-1569.html

Hon, in DCPS the Whites should be the diversity!!

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Anonymous wrote:As an EOTP parent of a soon-to-be middle schooler with ZERO good middle school options, it's depressing to see how entitled the WOTP parents are about their rights to attend a particular school and their rights to keep interlopers from undesirable neighborhoods out. Get the F out of our school and go to a substandard education campus because we deserve it more than you... so selfish.

+1. WotP parents should just get signs that say, "I got mine, f* you!!" At the focus groups, the hostility from Janney and Lafayette parents was overwhelming. It is sad (but not surprising) how little they think of the city as a whole.

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Anonymous wrote:According to a neighbor who is an Eaton mom, the local school community in Cleveland Park is getting pretty energized to fight any re-assignment to Hardy.

I'm sure that they are (though again, Hardy is a fine school). Someone will likely have to move though. Eaton already feeds both into Hardy and Deal. I was at a forum where David Catania (who doesn't get to decide, of course) flat out said to Ward 3 residents that it wasn't likely that Shepherd would be zoned out of Deal, but very likely that Eaton would.

I guess it is pretty likely that Catania will lose Cleveland Park then -- he needs to win Ward 3 bigtime to become mayor!

I should clarify that he didn't say that was what he wanted to do. He said that was what was likely to happen because of the threat of court challenges.

but you can't go to court and say, but i LIVE closer?

Not sure about the proximity issue but you can definitely go to court and say that boundary changes have reduced diversity and contribute to racial isolation. The Department of Justice has guidance for school districts on this issue.
http://www.justice.gov/opa/pr/2011/December/11-ag-1569.html