What are the odds OOB feeder rights will end?

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Anonymous wrote:Lol! The above suggestion wouldn't make much of a difference. Shepherd Park is a very low density neighborhood, so sending a few blocks to another school would reduce the number headed to Deal by what, 5 kids?

Currently, I believe about 40 kids head from Shepherd to Deal every year. Even if that increased to say, 50-60 in 10 years, eliminating those students would be a drop in the bucket towards solving Deal's overcrowding.

And there's also the question of what to do about crowding at the WOTP Deal feeders. I think boundaries for those schools also need to be readjusted so that some kids can be shifted to Hardy. I think this would be more impactful than simply cutting one school that contributes very little to Deal's numbers.

I think there aren't a lot of good solutions here. But it isn't just about crowding at Deal, it's about Wilson too.

The north end of Lafayette could be sent to Shepherd, and the Shepherd/Takoma boundary adjusted. People would hate it. But I can't think of anything people wouldn't hate, so...

I think PP's suggestion was trying to re-balance the feeder population as an approach to relieve up the chain in MS and HS. While you could reduce some Lafayette crowding with a rezone to Shepherd, ultimately this wouldn't help the Deal/Wilson problem, just shuffling the deck chairs. Plus the WOTP pearl clutchers would lose it.

No, the idea is that part of Shepherd would be rezoned to Takoma, and part of Takoma re-zoned to Brightwood and Whittier, and that would produce a reduction in the land mass of the Wilson boundary on the southern and eastern edges of Shepherd's zone. I agree people would flip out. But there are not a lot of good options here.

This doesn't make sense. Also, pp never answered my question regarding why they believe Shepherd will be overcrowded in 10 years. I don't see any evidence to support this. What's the big change that's planned to occur to trigger this?

Sounds more like a fabricated claim to justify moving boundaries to reduce the amount of Shepherd Park kids going to Deal and Wilson.

The evidence is the projection in the MFP. Maybe that is not accurate, but I didn't just make it up. See table A-20.

The idea is that if a bit of Lafayette were added to Shepherd, it would be more crowded. I think that's far for Lafayette folks to travel, but something's gotta give.

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We just moved into the Hyde Addison list's top 5 for 1st grade (we started in the mid 40s). Chances of them accomodating a PK4 sibling?

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Anonymous wrote:We just moved into the Hyde Addison list's top 5 for 1st grade (we started in the mid 40s). Chances of them accomodating a PK4 sibling?

OOB? No.

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Anonymous wrote:We just moved into the Hyde Addison list's top 5 for 1st grade (we started in the mid 40s). Chances of them accomodating a PK4 sibling?

OOB? No.

And there's no way of knowing if your OOB sibling would be at the top of the Pk4 list. There may be a couple others ahead of yours.

I also don't think you're getting in for 1st.

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Anonymous wrote:We just moved into the Hyde Addison list's top 5 for 1st grade (we started in the mid 40s). Chances of them accomodating a PK4 sibling?

PK4 class is already filled, I think, with in-bound siblings and new in-bound kids. So no, your 1st grader will not pull in your PK4 kid. You'll be very lucky if your 1st grader gets a seat.

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Anonymous wrote:We just moved into the Hyde Addison list's top 5 for 1st grade (we started in the mid 40s). Chances of them accomodating a PK4 sibling?

OOB? No.

There were only 17 kids with some type of preference (IB or Sibling attending) on the PK4 waitlist when the initial results came out. As of June they had made 11 offers to PK4. Why would it be "no chance"?

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Anonymous wrote:We just moved into the Hyde Addison list's top 5 for 1st grade (we started in the mid 40s). Chances of them accomodating a PK4 sibling?

OOB? No.

There were only 17 kids with some type of preference (IB or Sibling attending) on the PK4 waitlist when the initial results came out. As of June they had made 11 offers to PK4. Why would it be "no chance"?

Because there are only 24 total seats available. There are 6 students ahead of you even if your first grader gets in. The school has hard limits on how many PK students can accept due to student-teacher ratios. It isn't as if they can take 25 to get your kid in, even if they wanted to.