Oyster and bancroft feed to McFarland

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’d suggest all the OOB kids at Deal/Wilson will have to feed to Coolidge middle and high.

If you don’t like it, go to your neighborhood schools.

Ending OOB feeder rights would also be a huge improvement. If you get into a school OOB, you get to go to that school. Not the middle and high school it feeds into. This would really help my IB elementary school (not a Wilson feeder) where the more involved/prepared/educated/etc. parents play the lottery each year in hopes of getting into a Wilson feeder. If they had an equal shot at an OOB slot at Deal or Wilson as the people who won the lottery in kindergarten, they'd be more likely to stay IB for elementary.

Also, right now if you move to DC with an older kid, it's basically impossible to get into Deal or Wilson OOB--the OOB slots are full of kids who won the elementary lottery years before.

I raised this in the last boundary process and the DME said flat-out she didn't want the pushback from people who'd won OOB spaces in kindergarten and believed that gave them a right to attend all the way through 12th. Hopefully the next boundary and assignment process will come to a different conclusion.

But I also think Bancroft and Oyster should feed to MacFarland and Roosevelt, with Adams providing additional elementary space.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’d suggest all the OOB kids at Deal/Wilson will have to feed to Coolidge middle and high.

If you don’t like it, go to your neighborhood schools.

Ending OOB feeder rights would also be a huge improvement. If you get into a school OOB, you get to go to that school. Not the middle and high school it feeds into. This would really help my IB elementary school (not a Wilson feeder) where the more involved/prepared/educated/etc. parents play the lottery each year in hopes of getting into a Wilson feeder. If they had an equal shot at an OOB slot at Deal or Wilson as the people who won the lottery in kindergarten, they'd be more likely to stay IB for elementary.

Also, right now if you move to DC with an older kid, it's basically impossible to get into Deal or Wilson OOB--the OOB slots are full of kids who won the elementary lottery years before.

I raised this in the last boundary process and the DME said flat-out she didn't want the pushback from people who'd won OOB spaces in kindergarten and believed that gave them a right to attend all the way through 12th. Hopefully the next boundary and assignment process will come to a different conclusion.

But I also think Bancroft and Oyster should feed to MacFarland and Roosevelt, with Adams providing additional elementary space.

I'm not really following this argument that ending OOB feeder right would help. Most Wilson feeders , except perhaps Eaton and Hyde, don't have much OOB presence.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’d suggest all the OOB kids at Deal/Wilson will have to feed to Coolidge middle and high.

If you don’t like it, go to your neighborhood schools.

Ending OOB feeder rights would also be a huge improvement. If you get into a school OOB, you get to go to that school. Not the middle and high school it feeds into. This would really help my IB elementary school (not a Wilson feeder) where the more involved/prepared/educated/etc. parents play the lottery each year in hopes of getting into a Wilson feeder. If they had an equal shot at an OOB slot at Deal or Wilson as the people who won the lottery in kindergarten, they'd be more likely to stay IB for elementary.

Also, right now if you move to DC with an older kid, it's basically impossible to get into Deal or Wilson OOB--the OOB slots are full of kids who won the elementary lottery years before.

I raised this in the last boundary process and the DME said flat-out she didn't want the pushback from people who'd won OOB spaces in kindergarten and believed that gave them a right to attend all the way through 12th. Hopefully the next boundary and assignment process will come to a different conclusion.

But I also think Bancroft and Oyster should feed to MacFarland and Roosevelt, with Adams providing additional elementary space.

I'm not really following this argument that ending OOB feeder right would help. Most Wilson feeders , except perhaps Eaton and Hyde, don't have much OOB presence.

There are six feeders to Deal. Ignoring Bancroft in case it goes to MacFarland, taking feeder rights away from 5 kids per school per year would free up 3 entire classrooms at Deal. I bet there are 5 kids in each grade at each feeder school who either got in through the lottery or who were IB when they enrolled and moved OOB but are staying through principals' discretion. None of them should have the right to attend Deal. Deal should figure out how many OOB spaces it has and offer them through the lottery, with all OOB kids having the same right to them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’d suggest all the OOB kids at Deal/Wilson will have to feed to Coolidge middle and high.

If you don’t like it, go to your neighborhood schools.

Ending OOB feeder rights would also be a huge improvement. If you get into a school OOB, you get to go to that school. Not the middle and high school it feeds into. This would really help my IB elementary school (not a Wilson feeder) where the more involved/prepared/educated/etc. parents play the lottery each year in hopes of getting into a Wilson feeder. If they had an equal shot at an OOB slot at Deal or Wilson as the people who won the lottery in kindergarten, they'd be more likely to stay IB for elementary.

Also, right now if you move to DC with an older kid, it's basically impossible to get into Deal or Wilson OOB--the OOB slots are full of kids who won the elementary lottery years before.

I raised this in the last boundary process and the DME said flat-out she didn't want the pushback from people who'd won OOB spaces in kindergarten and believed that gave them a right to attend all the way through 12th. Hopefully the next boundary and assignment process will come to a different conclusion.

But I also think Bancroft and Oyster should feed to MacFarland and Roosevelt, with Adams providing additional elementary space.

I'm not really following this argument that ending OOB feeder right would help. Most Wilson feeders , except perhaps Eaton and Hyde, don't have much OOB presence.

Oyster is 48% IB, Murch is 77% IB, Stoddert is 80% IB, Lafayette 86%, Janney is 92%. If you add up all the OOB kids at all the schools, it's a few hundred kids. It's not the only solution, but it's part of the solution.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’d suggest all the OOB kids at Deal/Wilson will have to feed to Coolidge middle and high.

If you don’t like it, go to your neighborhood schools.

Ending OOB feeder rights would also be a huge improvement. If you get into a school OOB, you get to go to that school. Not the middle and high school it feeds into. This would really help my IB elementary school (not a Wilson feeder) where the more involved/prepared/educated/etc. parents play the lottery each year in hopes of getting into a Wilson feeder. If they had an equal shot at an OOB slot at Deal or Wilson as the people who won the lottery in kindergarten, they'd be more likely to stay IB for elementary.

Also, right now if you move to DC with an older kid, it's basically impossible to get into Deal or Wilson OOB--the OOB slots are full of kids who won the elementary lottery years before.

I raised this in the last boundary process and the DME said flat-out she didn't want the pushback from people who'd won OOB spaces in kindergarten and believed that gave them a right to attend all the way through 12th. Hopefully the next boundary and assignment process will come to a different conclusion.

But I also think Bancroft and Oyster should feed to MacFarland and Roosevelt, with Adams providing additional elementary space.

I'm not really following this argument that ending OOB feeder right would help. Most Wilson feeders , except perhaps Eaton and Hyde, don't have much OOB presence.

What are you talking about? Deal is 30% OOB, Hardy is 63% OOB. Ending OOB feeder rights would immediately relief Wilson enrollment.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’d suggest all the OOB kids at Deal/Wilson will have to feed to Coolidge middle and high.

If you don’t like it, go to your neighborhood schools.

Ending OOB feeder rights would also be a huge improvement. If you get into a school OOB, you get to go to that school. Not the middle and high school it feeds into. This would really help my IB elementary school (not a Wilson feeder) where the more involved/prepared/educated/etc. parents play the lottery each year in hopes of getting into a Wilson feeder. If they had an equal shot at an OOB slot at Deal or Wilson as the people who won the lottery in kindergarten, they'd be more likely to stay IB for elementary.

Also, right now if you move to DC with an older kid, it's basically impossible to get into Deal or Wilson OOB--the OOB slots are full of kids who won the elementary lottery years before.

I raised this in the last boundary process and the DME said flat-out she didn't want the pushback from people who'd won OOB spaces in kindergarten and believed that gave them a right to attend all the way through 12th. Hopefully the next boundary and assignment process will come to a different conclusion.

But I also think Bancroft and Oyster should feed to MacFarland and Roosevelt, with Adams providing additional elementary space.

I'm not really following this argument that ending OOB feeder right would help. Most Wilson feeders , except perhaps Eaton and Hyde, don't have much OOB presence.

Oyster is 48% IB, Murch is 77% IB, Stoddert is 80% IB, Lafayette 86%, Janney is 92%. If you add up all the OOB kids at all the schools, it's a few hundred kids. It's not the only solution, but it's part of the solution.

Also, Shepherd is still only 43% IB. It's creeping up, but it's still a route by which OOB kids have a chance at Deal/Wilson. Only two classes per grade for most grades, though.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’d suggest all the OOB kids at Deal/Wilson will have to feed to Coolidge middle and high.

If you don’t like it, go to your neighborhood schools.

Ending OOB feeder rights would also be a huge improvement. If you get into a school OOB, you get to go to that school. Not the middle and high school it feeds into. This would really help my IB elementary school (not a Wilson feeder) where the more involved/prepared/educated/etc. parents play the lottery each year in hopes of getting into a Wilson feeder. If they had an equal shot at an OOB slot at Deal or Wilson as the people who won the lottery in kindergarten, they'd be more likely to stay IB for elementary.

Also, right now if you move to DC with an older kid, it's basically impossible to get into Deal or Wilson OOB--the OOB slots are full of kids who won the elementary lottery years before.

I raised this in the last boundary process and the DME said flat-out she didn't want the pushback from people who'd won OOB spaces in kindergarten and believed that gave them a right to attend all the way through 12th. Hopefully the next boundary and assignment process will come to a different conclusion.

But I also think Bancroft and Oyster should feed to MacFarland and Roosevelt, with Adams providing additional elementary space.

I'm not really following this argument that ending OOB feeder right would help. Most Wilson feeders , except perhaps Eaton and Hyde, don't have much OOB presence.

Oyster is 48% IB, Murch is 77% IB, Stoddert is 80% IB, Lafayette 86%, Janney is 92%. If you add up all the OOB kids at all the schools, it's a few hundred kids. It's not the only solution, but it's part of the solution.

If you get rid of OOB at Oyster, it will no longer be a dual language school.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’d suggest all the OOB kids at Deal/Wilson will have to feed to Coolidge middle and high.

If you don’t like it, go to your neighborhood schools.

Ending OOB feeder rights would also be a huge improvement. If you get into a school OOB, you get to go to that school. Not the middle and high school it feeds into. This would really help my IB elementary school (not a Wilson feeder) where the more involved/prepared/educated/etc. parents play the lottery each year in hopes of getting into a Wilson feeder. If they had an equal shot at an OOB slot at Deal or Wilson as the people who won the lottery in kindergarten, they'd be more likely to stay IB for elementary.

Also, right now if you move to DC with an older kid, it's basically impossible to get into Deal or Wilson OOB--the OOB slots are full of kids who won the elementary lottery years before.

I raised this in the last boundary process and the DME said flat-out she didn't want the pushback from people who'd won OOB spaces in kindergarten and believed that gave them a right to attend all the way through 12th. Hopefully the next boundary and assignment process will come to a different conclusion.

But I also think Bancroft and Oyster should feed to MacFarland and Roosevelt, with Adams providing additional elementary space.

I'm not really following this argument that ending OOB feeder right would help. Most Wilson feeders , except perhaps Eaton and Hyde, don't have much OOB presence.

Oyster is 48% IB, Murch is 77% IB, Stoddert is 80% IB, Lafayette 86%, Janney is 92%. If you add up all the OOB kids at all the schools, it's a few hundred kids. It's not the only solution, but it's part of the solution.

If you get rid of OOB at Oyster, it will no longer be a dual language school.

NP here, I would say Oyster should be the exception due to their programming.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’d suggest all the OOB kids at Deal/Wilson will have to feed to Coolidge middle and high.

If you don’t like it, go to your neighborhood schools.

Ending OOB feeder rights would also be a huge improvement. If you get into a school OOB, you get to go to that school. Not the middle and high school it feeds into. This would really help my IB elementary school (not a Wilson feeder) where the more involved/prepared/educated/etc. parents play the lottery each year in hopes of getting into a Wilson feeder. If they had an equal shot at an OOB slot at Deal or Wilson as the people who won the lottery in kindergarten, they'd be more likely to stay IB for elementary.

Also, right now if you move to DC with an older kid, it's basically impossible to get into Deal or Wilson OOB--the OOB slots are full of kids who won the elementary lottery years before.

I raised this in the last boundary process and the DME said flat-out she didn't want the pushback from people who'd won OOB spaces in kindergarten and believed that gave them a right to attend all the way through 12th. Hopefully the next boundary and assignment process will come to a different conclusion.

But I also think Bancroft and Oyster should feed to MacFarland and Roosevelt, with Adams providing additional elementary space.

I'm not really following this argument that ending OOB feeder right would help. Most Wilson feeders , except perhaps Eaton and Hyde, don't have much OOB presence.

Oyster is 48% IB, Murch is 77% IB, Stoddert is 80% IB, Lafayette 86%, Janney is 92%. If you add up all the OOB kids at all the schools, it's a few hundred kids. It's not the only solution, but it's part of the solution.

If you get rid of OOB at Oyster, it will no longer be a dual language school.

No need to get rid of OOB at Oyster-Adams. Just, if the current feeder pattern remains, don't give the OOB kids rights to Wilson. The OOB kids can still enter the lottery for a seat at Wilson, but they'll be treated the same as kids who didn't attend a feeder school.

And if Oyster and Bancroft feed to MacFarland, DCPS could say that the kids who finish bilingual elementary schools could still have a programmatic feeder right to MacFarland and on to Roosevelt regardless of whether they got into the elementary school as IB or OOB.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I’d suggest all the OOB kids at Deal/Wilson will have to feed to Coolidge middle and high.

If you don’t like it, go to your neighborhood schools.

Great solution.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’d suggest all the OOB kids at Deal/Wilson will have to feed to Coolidge middle and high.

If you don’t like it, go to your neighborhood schools.

Ending OOB feeder rights would also be a huge improvement. If you get into a school OOB, you get to go to that school. Not the middle and high school it feeds into. This would really help my IB elementary school (not a Wilson feeder) where the more involved/prepared/educated/etc. parents play the lottery each year in hopes of getting into a Wilson feeder. If they had an equal shot at an OOB slot at Deal or Wilson as the people who won the lottery in kindergarten, they'd be more likely to stay IB for elementary.

Also, right now if you move to DC with an older kid, it's basically impossible to get into Deal or Wilson OOB--the OOB slots are full of kids who won the elementary lottery years before.

I raised this in the last boundary process and the DME said flat-out she didn't want the pushback from people who'd won OOB spaces in kindergarten and believed that gave them a right to attend all the way through 12th. Hopefully the next boundary and assignment process will come to a different conclusion.

But I also think Bancroft and Oyster should feed to MacFarland and Roosevelt, with Adams providing additional elementary space.

I'm not really following this argument that ending OOB feeder right would help. Most Wilson feeders , except perhaps Eaton and Hyde, don't have much OOB presence.

Oyster is 48% IB, Murch is 77% IB, Stoddert is 80% IB, Lafayette 86%, Janney is 92%. If you add up all the OOB kids at all the schools, it's a few hundred kids. It's not the only solution, but it's part of the solution.

This is a mean solution and as such it is not politically viable. Keeping friends together through school is important. If Oyster is only 48% IB then maybe they should open up and be a dual language school and capture more of the kids in Dupont and Foggy Bottom - be a valve for Francis Stephens Middle school which will be over enrolled in 5 years.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’d suggest all the OOB kids at Deal/Wilson will have to feed to Coolidge middle and high.

If you don’t like it, go to your neighborhood schools.

Ending OOB feeder rights would also be a huge improvement. If you get into a school OOB, you get to go to that school. Not the middle and high school it feeds into. This would really help my IB elementary school (not a Wilson feeder) where the more involved/prepared/educated/etc. parents play the lottery each year in hopes of getting into a Wilson feeder. If they had an equal shot at an OOB slot at Deal or Wilson as the people who won the lottery in kindergarten, they'd be more likely to stay IB for elementary.

Also, right now if you move to DC with an older kid, it's basically impossible to get into Deal or Wilson OOB--the OOB slots are full of kids who won the elementary lottery years before.

I raised this in the last boundary process and the DME said flat-out she didn't want the pushback from people who'd won OOB spaces in kindergarten and believed that gave them a right to attend all the way through 12th. Hopefully the next boundary and assignment process will come to a different conclusion.

But I also think Bancroft and Oyster should feed to MacFarland and Roosevelt, with Adams providing additional elementary space.

I'm not really following this argument that ending OOB feeder right would help. Most Wilson feeders , except perhaps Eaton and Hyde, don't have much OOB presence.

Oyster is 48% IB, Murch is 77% IB, Stoddert is 80% IB, Lafayette 86%, Janney is 92%. If you add up all the OOB kids at all the schools, it's a few hundred kids. It's not the only solution, but it's part of the solution.

This is a mean solution and as such it is not politically viable. Keeping friends together through school is important. If Oyster is only 48% IB then maybe they should open up and be a dual language school and capture more of the kids in Dupont and Foggy Bottom - be a valve for Francis Stephens Middle school which will be over enrolled in 5 years.

Funny lady, O-A is already over enrolled today.

And only the ZOO goes around "capturing" kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’d suggest all the OOB kids at Deal/Wilson will have to feed to Coolidge middle and high.

If you don’t like it, go to your neighborhood schools.

Ending OOB feeder rights would also be a huge improvement. If you get into a school OOB, you get to go to that school. Not the middle and high school it feeds into. This would really help my IB elementary school (not a Wilson feeder) where the more involved/prepared/educated/etc. parents play the lottery each year in hopes of getting into a Wilson feeder. If they had an equal shot at an OOB slot at Deal or Wilson as the people who won the lottery in kindergarten, they'd be more likely to stay IB for elementary.

Also, right now if you move to DC with an older kid, it's basically impossible to get into Deal or Wilson OOB--the OOB slots are full of kids who won the elementary lottery years before.

I raised this in the last boundary process and the DME said flat-out she didn't want the pushback from people who'd won OOB spaces in kindergarten and believed that gave them a right to attend all the way through 12th. Hopefully the next boundary and assignment process will come to a different conclusion.

But I also think Bancroft and Oyster should feed to MacFarland and Roosevelt, with Adams providing additional elementary space.

I'm not really following this argument that ending OOB feeder right would help. Most Wilson feeders , except perhaps Eaton and Hyde, don't have much OOB presence.

Oyster is 48% IB, Murch is 77% IB, Stoddert is 80% IB, Lafayette 86%, Janney is 92%. If you add up all the OOB kids at all the schools, it's a few hundred kids. It's not the only solution, but it's part of the solution.

This is a mean solution and as such it is not politically viable. Keeping friends together through school is important. If Oyster is only 48% IB then maybe they should open up and be a dual language school and capture more of the kids in Dupont and Foggy Bottom - be a valve for Francis Stephens Middle school which will be over enrolled in 5 years.

It's not mean that if you win the lottery for OOB enrollment in a school that you only get into that school, not the middle and high school it feeds to. Most school districts don't allow OOB at all!
And the current system is mean to families who move to DC after their kids are a bit older, since there's very few OOB spaces at middle and high schools because they've been taken by kids who won the lottery 5+ years ago.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’d suggest all the OOB kids at Deal/Wilson will have to feed to Coolidge middle and high.

If you don’t like it, go to your neighborhood schools.

Ending OOB feeder rights would also be a huge improvement. If you get into a school OOB, you get to go to that school. Not the middle and high school it feeds into. This would really help my IB elementary school (not a Wilson feeder) where the more involved/prepared/educated/etc. parents play the lottery each year in hopes of getting into a Wilson feeder. If they had an equal shot at an OOB slot at Deal or Wilson as the people who won the lottery in kindergarten, they'd be more likely to stay IB for elementary.

Also, right now if you move to DC with an older kid, it's basically impossible to get into Deal or Wilson OOB--the OOB slots are full of kids who won the elementary lottery years before.

I raised this in the last boundary process and the DME said flat-out she didn't want the pushback from people who'd won OOB spaces in kindergarten and believed that gave them a right to attend all the way through 12th. Hopefully the next boundary and assignment process will come to a different conclusion.

But I also think Bancroft and Oyster should feed to MacFarland and Roosevelt, with Adams providing additional elementary space.

I'm not really following this argument that ending OOB feeder right would help. Most Wilson feeders , except perhaps Eaton and Hyde, don't have much OOB presence.

Oyster is 48% IB, Murch is 77% IB, Stoddert is 80% IB, Lafayette 86%, Janney is 92%. If you add up all the OOB kids at all the schools, it's a few hundred kids. It's not the only solution, but it's part of the solution.

This is a mean solution and as such it is not politically viable. Keeping friends together through school is important. If Oyster is only 48% IB then maybe they should open up and be a dual language school and capture more of the kids in Dupont and Foggy Bottom - be a valve for Francis Stephens Middle school which will be over enrolled in 5 years.

Funny lady, O-A is already over enrolled today.

And only the ZOO goes around "capturing" kids.

If a school that is supposed to be a "neighborhood school" has less than half it kids coming from inbounds, and there is a nearby school about to burst with inbound kids, then it would make sense to alleviate that pressure with the available resource. And it seems that the middle school campus of Oyster Adams is only 48% in boundary kids.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I’d suggest all the OOB kids at Deal/Wilson will have to feed to Coolidge middle and high.

If you don’t like it, go to your neighborhood schools.

Ending OOB feeder rights would also be a huge improvement. If you get into a school OOB, you get to go to that school. Not the middle and high school it feeds into. This would really help my IB elementary school (not a Wilson feeder) where the more involved/prepared/educated/etc. parents play the lottery each year in hopes of getting into a Wilson feeder. If they had an equal shot at an OOB slot at Deal or Wilson as the people who won the lottery in kindergarten, they'd be more likely to stay IB for elementary.

Also, right now if you move to DC with an older kid, it's basically impossible to get into Deal or Wilson OOB--the OOB slots are full of kids who won the elementary lottery years before.

I raised this in the last boundary process and the DME said flat-out she didn't want the pushback from people who'd won OOB spaces in kindergarten and believed that gave them a right to attend all the way through 12th. Hopefully the next boundary and assignment process will come to a different conclusion.

But I also think Bancroft and Oyster should feed to MacFarland and Roosevelt, with Adams providing additional elementary space.

I'm not really following this argument that ending OOB feeder right would help. Most Wilson feeders , except perhaps Eaton and Hyde, don't have much OOB presence.

Oyster is 48% IB, Murch is 77% IB, Stoddert is 80% IB, Lafayette 86%, Janney is 92%. If you add up all the OOB kids at all the schools, it's a few hundred kids. It's not the only solution, but it's part of the solution.

This is a mean solution and as such it is not politically viable. Keeping friends together through school is important. If Oyster is only 48% IB then maybe they should open up and be a dual language school and capture more of the kids in Dupont and Foggy Bottom - be a valve for Francis Stephens Middle school which will be over enrolled in 5 years.

It's not mean that if you win the lottery for OOB enrollment in a school that you only get into that school, not the middle and high school it feeds to. Most school districts don't allow OOB at all!
And the current system is mean to families who move to DC after their kids are a bit older, since there's very few OOB spaces at middle and high schools because they've been taken by kids who won the lottery 5+ years ago.

And the whole world in mean because you cannot afford to buy in bounds to a school you like. Keeping cohorts and friends together as they move through schooling is the decent thing to do.