Deal is tremendously overcrowded - something is to give

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Hallway roughhousing is not the same as cheating. Don’t get the two mixed up. It’s a false premise.

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Anonymous wrote:Hallway roughhousing is not the same as cheating. Don’t get the two mixed up. It’s a false premise.

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Anonymous wrote:Just end feeder rights. That should allow Deal’s and Wilson’s enrollments to stabilize. It will also focus needed attention on schools EOTP. A win-win.

The problem is then DCPS would have to come up with a number for what the actual capacities of Deal and Wilson are in order to determine how many OOB kids to let in. If you've followed the school crowding working group at all, one of the issues is that DCPS has no methodology for establishing capacity of schools, and really doesn't want to. There's no reason to believe they would set the capacities any lower that whatever they need to let all of the feeder kids continue.

Don’t forget that a lot of the OOB at Deal and Wilson are OOB students who continue from zoned elementary schools and under DCPS logic are then called ‘feeder’ students.

A lot? Try all. Neither Deal nor Wilson has admitted kids through the lottery in years. DCPS doesn't know what the capacity of the schools is, but they know it's not more than what they have.

But the problem is that elementary feeder schools still take lottery kids despite being over capacity. That’s kakakookoo. And then they do to Deal and Wilson.

That's why people are talking about limiting OOB feeder rights.

The only people talking about that is white people who love DC except for all the black people who forgot to move out when the city changed. As long as the power dynamic still lets ward 8 pick the mayor, OOB rights aren’t going anywhere. Wilson/deal is a city school not ward 3, they need more NE & SE kids while the other wards need more ward 3 kids. Bottom line

Don’t forget the political pull of ‘Ward 9’ as well. Ten percent of Deal and Wilson students actually live there!

But the trend is that Chocolate City is melting fast. Amazon will accelerate that. In 10 it 15 years, Washington DC will be very different, even in Ward 8.

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Anonymous wrote:Just end feeder rights. That should allow Deal’s and Wilson’s enrollments to stabilize. It will also focus needed attention on schools EOTP. A win-win.

You will loose diversity. As housing increases in Ward 3 you will see a less diverse area. This will sound bad but I will say it. Wilson and Deal will go from have the number 1 athletic programs to being last. If you think I am exaggerating go to a basketball and football game.

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Anonymous wrote:Just end feeder rights. That should allow Deal’s and Wilson’s enrollments to stabilize. It will also focus needed attention on schools EOTP. A win-win.

You will loose diversity. As housing increases in Ward 3 you will see a less diverse area. This will sound bad but I will say it. Wilson and Deal will go from have the number 1 athletic programs to being last. If you think I am exaggerating go to a basketball and football game.

Who carrs? Success of athletic teams is waaay down on the list.

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Anonymous wrote:Just end feeder rights. That should allow Deal’s and Wilson’s enrollments to stabilize. It will also focus needed attention on schools EOTP. A win-win.

You will loose diversity. As housing increases in Ward 3 you will see a less diverse area. This will sound bad but I will say it. Wilson and Deal will go from have the number 1 athletic programs to being last. If you think I am exaggerating go to a basketball and football game.

Who carrs? Success of athletic teams is waaay down on the list.

+1,000,000

Robotic team >>>>>>>football team for success in life.

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Anonymous wrote:Just end feeder rights. That should allow Deal’s and Wilson’s enrollments to stabilize. It will also focus needed attention on schools EOTP. A win-win.

You will loose diversity. As housing increases in Ward 3 you will see a less diverse area. This will sound bad but I will say it. Wilson and Deal will go from have the number 1 athletic programs to being last. If you think I am exaggerating go to a basketball and football game.

You would have been ahead to stop after the first two sentences.

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Anonymous wrote:Just end feeder rights. That should allow Deal’s and Wilson’s enrollments to stabilize. It will also focus needed attention on schools EOTP. A win-win.

You will loose diversity. As housing increases in Ward 3 you will see a less diverse area. This will sound bad but I will say it. Wilson and Deal will go from have the number 1 athletic programs to being last. If you think I am exaggerating go to a basketball and football game.

Isn’t the point of neighborhood schools to keep like sorted kids together? That is what people want except for the people who hate the people the live around

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Anonymous wrote:Just end feeder rights. That should allow Deal’s and Wilson’s enrollments to stabilize. It will also focus needed attention on schools EOTP. A win-win.

You will loose diversity. As housing increases in Ward 3 you will see a less diverse area. This will sound bad but I will say it. Wilson and Deal will go from have the number 1 athletic programs to being last. If you think I am exaggerating go to a basketball and football game.

You would have been ahead to stop after the first two sentences.

Why not treat Wilson like the privates and make a jump short part of the diversity criteria

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Anonymous wrote:Just end feeder rights. That should allow Deal’s and Wilson’s enrollments to stabilize. It will also focus needed attention on schools EOTP. A win-win.

You will loose diversity. As housing increases in Ward 3 you will see a less diverse area. This will sound bad but I will say it. Wilson and Deal will go from have the number 1 athletic programs to being last. If you think I am exaggerating go to a basketball and football game.

Who gives a F about that? We want top notch academics that are not dragged down by those who can’t perform at grade level.

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They need to redraw boundaries to be more equitable - send more white kids to adjacent out of bounds schools that need improving.

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Anonymous wrote:So - most of the growth in public’s school enrollment in DC is due to the charter sector, right?

No.

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Anonymous wrote:So - most of the growth in public’s school enrollment in DC is due to the charter sector, right?

No.

Correct. All of the growth in public school enrollment in DC over the past decade is due to the charter sector.

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Anonymous wrote:So - most of the growth in public’s school enrollment in DC is due to the charter sector, right?

No.

Correct. All of the growth in public school enrollment in DC over the past decade is due to the charter sector.

So you didn't actually look at the numbers.

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Anonymous wrote:They need to redraw boundaries to be more equitable - send more white kids to adjacent out of bounds schools that need improving.

Don’t you get it, white kids will be fine. They don’t actually help the poor kids at a poor school, they simply raise the metrics making the school look better. White kids are the cause not the solution to the gap