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[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DCPS already DID deal with it by building out a whole new high school for one of the JR feeders.

Once JR is fully feeding only from Deal (SY28-29), you'll have around 250-320 students per grade (based on last 5 years of data on # of students who move on from Deal to JR). So 1,000 - 1,300 in a facility with capacity for 1,600.

There's no need to exclude OOB students with feeder rights.

Well there’s no capacity need. The school would get a lot better in terms of test performance if it only had Ward 3 students in it.

Why do you care what the overall test scores are if your kid’s test scores are good?

NP. Are you really that dense? Because there is no tracking and there is a huge difference in academic ability. Even in AP classes since it is AP for all.

That is why the AP passing rate for JR is not great.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DCPS already DID deal with it by building out a whole new high school for one of the JR feeders.

Once JR is fully feeding only from Deal (SY28-29), you'll have around 250-320 students per grade (based on last 5 years of data on # of students who move on from Deal to JR). So 1,000 - 1,300 in a facility with capacity for 1,600.

There's no need to exclude OOB students with feeder rights.

Well there’s no capacity need. The school would get a lot better in terms of test performance if it only had Ward 3 students in it.

If you eliminated OOB students with feeder rights, JR would still not only have Ward 3 students in it. Some of you need to look at a map.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DCPS already DID deal with it by building out a whole new high school for one of the JR feeders.

Once JR is fully feeding only from Deal (SY28-29), you'll have around 250-320 students per grade (based on last 5 years of data on # of students who move on from Deal to JR). So 1,000 - 1,300 in a facility with capacity for 1,600.

There's no need to exclude OOB students with feeder rights.

Well this does not help current families at all so…..

And basically, Hardy families got screwed over having to go to MA which is a nightmare to get to and limited in academic, EC, and sports offerings.

If they did not do OOB feeder rights, JR could accommodate all IB ward 3 families.

But we know that the priority of DCPS was not ward 3 families. It is to get more OOB families in ward 3 schools.

It does help current families. This year the freshman class is smaller. Next year the freshman and sophomore class will be smaller. Etc.

Proposing to immediately change feeder rights across DCPS to fix a short-term problem at a single school is ridiculous. JR overcrowding is a long-standing problem that current families should have been aware of long before their students matriculated.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DCPS already DID deal with it by building out a whole new high school for one of the JR feeders.

Once JR is fully feeding only from Deal (SY28-29), you'll have around 250-320 students per grade (based on last 5 years of data on # of students who move on from Deal to JR). So 1,000 - 1,300 in a facility with capacity for 1,600.

There's no need to exclude OOB students with feeder rights.

Well this does not help current families at all so…..

And basically, Hardy families got screwed over having to go to MA which is a nightmare to get to and limited in academic, EC, and sports offerings.

If they did not do OOB feeder rights, JR could accommodate all IB ward 3 families.

But we know that the priority of DCPS was not ward 3 families. It is to get more OOB families in ward 3 schools.

It does help current families. This year the freshman class is smaller. Next year the freshman and sophomore class will be smaller. Etc.

Proposing to immediately change feeder rights across DCPS to fix a short-term problem at a single school is ridiculous. JR overcrowding is a long-standing problem that current families should have been aware of long before their students matriculated.

Forgot to add that Hardy families have had years of notice and grandfathering before students lost feeder rights to JR. But yes, sure, let's tell OOB families with students currently at JR that they need to find a new HS.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DCPS already DID deal with it by building out a whole new high school for one of the JR feeders.

Once JR is fully feeding only from Deal (SY28-29), you'll have around 250-320 students per grade (based on last 5 years of data on # of students who move on from Deal to JR). So 1,000 - 1,300 in a facility with capacity for 1,600.

There's no need to exclude OOB students with feeder rights.

Well this does not help current families at all so…..

And basically, Hardy families got screwed over having to go to MA which is a nightmare to get to and limited in academic, EC, and sports offerings.

If they did not do OOB feeder rights, JR could accommodate all IB ward 3 families.

But we know that the priority of DCPS was not ward 3 families. It is to get more OOB families in ward 3 schools.

It does help current families. This year the freshman class is smaller. Next year the freshman and sophomore class will be smaller. Etc.

Proposing to immediately change feeder rights across DCPS to fix a short-term problem at a single school is ridiculous. JR overcrowding is a long-standing problem that current families should have been aware of long before their students matriculated.

Forgot to add that Hardy families have had years of notice and grandfathering before students lost feeder rights to JR. But yes, sure, let's tell OOB families with students currently at JR that they need to find a new HS.

No one is saying to kick the OOB students out of JR. What people are saying is to end feeder rights at over crowded schools once the kids reach the terminal grade at their current school.

Yes this has been a long standing issue that families have raised again and again and that the solution would be to end feeder school rights. But of course OSSE and DCPS could care less and do nothing.

Families are not to blame. It is the messed up system and DCPS. No wonder so many families who have options are leaving DCPS altogether. BTW the new science and ELA curriculum isn’t helping either with the race to the bottom.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DCPS already DID deal with it by building out a whole new high school for one of the JR feeders.

Once JR is fully feeding only from Deal (SY28-29), you'll have around 250-320 students per grade (based on last 5 years of data on # of students who move on from Deal to JR). So 1,000 - 1,300 in a facility with capacity for 1,600.

There's no need to exclude OOB students with feeder rights.

Well this does not help current families at all so…..

And basically, Hardy families got screwed over having to go to MA which is a nightmare to get to and limited in academic, EC, and sports offerings.

If they did not do OOB feeder rights, JR could accommodate all IB ward 3 families.

But we know that the priority of DCPS was not ward 3 families. It is to get more OOB families in ward 3 schools.

It does help current families. This year the freshman class is smaller. Next year the freshman and sophomore class will be smaller. Etc.

Proposing to immediately change feeder rights across DCPS to fix a short-term problem at a single school is ridiculous. JR overcrowding is a long-standing problem that current families should have been aware of long before their students matriculated.

Forgot to add that Hardy families have had years of notice and grandfathering before students lost feeder rights to JR. But yes, sure, let's tell OOB families with students currently at JR that they need to find a new HS.

No one is saying to kick the OOB students out of JR. What people are saying is to end feeder rights at over crowded schools once the kids reach the terminal grade at their current school.

Yes this has been a long standing issue that families have raised again and again and that the solution would be to end feeder school rights. But of course OSSE and DCPS could care less and do nothing.

Families are not to blame. It is the messed up system and DCPS. No wonder so many families who have options are leaving DCPS altogether. BTW the new science and ELA curriculum isn’t helping either with the race to the bottom.

I don't think it's that DCPS could care less, it's that they don't think JR being overcrowded is more of a problem than cutting out OOB students from the school would be.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DCPS already DID deal with it by building out a whole new high school for one of the JR feeders.

Once JR is fully feeding only from Deal (SY28-29), you'll have around 250-320 students per grade (based on last 5 years of data on # of students who move on from Deal to JR). So 1,000 - 1,300 in a facility with capacity for 1,600.

There's no need to exclude OOB students with feeder rights.

Well this does not help current families at all so…..

And basically, Hardy families got screwed over having to go to MA which is a nightmare to get to and limited in academic, EC, and sports offerings.

If they did not do OOB feeder rights, JR could accommodate all IB ward 3 families.

But we know that the priority of DCPS was not ward 3 families. It is to get more OOB families in ward 3 schools.

It does help current families. This year the freshman class is smaller. Next year the freshman and sophomore class will be smaller. Etc.

Proposing to immediately change feeder rights across DCPS to fix a short-term problem at a single school is ridiculous. JR overcrowding is a long-standing problem that current families should have been aware of long before their students matriculated.

Forgot to add that Hardy families have had years of notice and grandfathering before students lost feeder rights to JR. But yes, sure, let's tell OOB families with students currently at JR that they need to find a new HS.

No one is saying to kick the OOB students out of JR. What people are saying is to end feeder rights at over crowded schools once the kids reach the terminal grade at their current school.

Yes this has been a long standing issue that families have raised again and again and that the solution would be to end feeder school rights. But of course OSSE and DCPS could care less and do nothing.

Families are not to blame. It is the messed up system and DCPS. No wonder so many families who have options are leaving DCPS altogether. BTW the new science and ELA curriculum isn’t helping either with the race to the bottom.

I don't think it's that DCPS could care less, it's that they don't think JR being overcrowded is more of a problem than cutting out OOB students from the school would be.

They literally already addressed the problem at JR by creating a brand new high school for one of the two feeder middle schools. I really don't understand what you are all going on about.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DCPS already DID deal with it by building out a whole new high school for one of the JR feeders.

Once JR is fully feeding only from Deal (SY28-29), you'll have around 250-320 students per grade (based on last 5 years of data on # of students who move on from Deal to JR). So 1,000 - 1,300 in a facility with capacity for 1,600.

There's no need to exclude OOB students with feeder rights.

Well this does not help current families at all so…..

And basically, Hardy families got screwed over having to go to MA which is a nightmare to get to and limited in academic, EC, and sports offerings.

If they did not do OOB feeder rights, JR could accommodate all IB ward 3 families.

But we know that the priority of DCPS was not ward 3 families. It is to get more OOB families in ward 3 schools.

It does help current families. This year the freshman class is smaller. Next year the freshman and sophomore class will be smaller. Etc.

Proposing to immediately change feeder rights across DCPS to fix a short-term problem at a single school is ridiculous. JR overcrowding is a long-standing problem that current families should have been aware of long before their students matriculated.

Forgot to add that Hardy families have had years of notice and grandfathering before students lost feeder rights to JR. But yes, sure, let's tell OOB families with students currently at JR that they need to find a new HS.

No one is saying to kick the OOB students out of JR. What people are saying is to end feeder rights at over crowded schools once the kids reach the terminal grade at their current school.

Yes this has been a long standing issue that families have raised again and again and that the solution would be to end feeder school rights. But of course OSSE and DCPS could care less and do nothing.

Families are not to blame. It is the messed up system and DCPS. No wonder so many families who have options are leaving DCPS altogether. BTW the new science and ELA curriculum isn’t helping either with the race to the bottom.

I don't think it's that DCPS could care less, it's that they don't think JR being overcrowded is more of a problem than cutting out OOB students from the school would be.

They literally already addressed the problem at JR by creating a brand new high school for one of the two feeder middle schools. I really don't understand what you are all going on about.

It would take my kids 90 minutes to get to school that this “brand new high school for one of the two feeder middle schools”. It was foolish to make MA there and. it’s not a viable option for the vast majority of inbounds families. It’s a slap in the face. We had to leave DC.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DCPS already DID deal with it by building out a whole new high school for one of the JR feeders.

Once JR is fully feeding only from Deal (SY28-29), you'll have around 250-320 students per grade (based on last 5 years of data on # of students who move on from Deal to JR). So 1,000 - 1,300 in a facility with capacity for 1,600.

There's no need to exclude OOB students with feeder rights.

Well this does not help current families at all so…..

And basically, Hardy families got screwed over having to go to MA which is a nightmare to get to and limited in academic, EC, and sports offerings.

If they did not do OOB feeder rights, JR could accommodate all IB ward 3 families.

But we know that the priority of DCPS was not ward 3 families. It is to get more OOB families in ward 3 schools.

It does help current families. This year the freshman class is smaller. Next year the freshman and sophomore class will be smaller. Etc.

Proposing to immediately change feeder rights across DCPS to fix a short-term problem at a single school is ridiculous. JR overcrowding is a long-standing problem that current families should have been aware of long before their students matriculated.

Forgot to add that Hardy families have had years of notice and grandfathering before students lost feeder rights to JR. But yes, sure, let's tell OOB families with students currently at JR that they need to find a new HS.

No one is saying to kick the OOB students out of JR. What people are saying is to end feeder rights at over crowded schools once the kids reach the terminal grade at their current school.

Yes this has been a long standing issue that families have raised again and again and that the solution would be to end feeder school rights. But of course OSSE and DCPS could care less and do nothing.

Families are not to blame. It is the messed up system and DCPS. No wonder so many families who have options are leaving DCPS altogether. BTW the new science and ELA curriculum isn’t helping either with the race to the bottom.

I don't think it's that DCPS could care less, it's that they don't think JR being overcrowded is more of a problem than cutting out OOB students from the school would be.

They literally already addressed the problem at JR by creating a brand new high school for one of the two feeder middle schools. I really don't understand what you are all going on about.

It would take my kids 90 minutes to get to school that this “brand new high school for one of the two feeder middle schools”. It was foolish to make MA there and. it’s not a viable option for the vast majority of inbounds families. It’s a slap in the face. We had to leave DC.

Sounds like your actual issue is with where they located MacArthur and the lack of transportation options to MacArthur.

There was no way DC was ever going to end feeder rights for the entire city just to fix a problem at a single school.

But maybe IB families could lobby for something like the DC SchoolConnect buses that serve schools in Wards 7 and 8?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DCPS already DID deal with it by building out a whole new high school for one of the JR feeders.

Once JR is fully feeding only from Deal (SY28-29), you'll have around 250-320 students per grade (based on last 5 years of data on # of students who move on from Deal to JR). So 1,000 - 1,300 in a facility with capacity for 1,600.

There's no need to exclude OOB students with feeder rights.

Well this does not help current families at all so…..

And basically, Hardy families got screwed over having to go to MA which is a nightmare to get to and limited in academic, EC, and sports offerings.

If they did not do OOB feeder rights, JR could accommodate all IB ward 3 families.

But we know that the priority of DCPS was not ward 3 families. It is to get more OOB families in ward 3 schools.

It does help current families. This year the freshman class is smaller. Next year the freshman and sophomore class will be smaller. Etc.

Proposing to immediately change feeder rights across DCPS to fix a short-term problem at a single school is ridiculous. JR overcrowding is a long-standing problem that current families should have been aware of long before their students matriculated.

Forgot to add that Hardy families have had years of notice and grandfathering before students lost feeder rights to JR. But yes, sure, let's tell OOB families with students currently at JR that they need to find a new HS.

No one is saying to kick the OOB students out of JR. What people are saying is to end feeder rights at over crowded schools once the kids reach the terminal grade at their current school.

Yes this has been a long standing issue that families have raised again and again and that the solution would be to end feeder school rights. But of course OSSE and DCPS could care less and do nothing.

Families are not to blame. It is the messed up system and DCPS. No wonder so many families who have options are leaving DCPS altogether. BTW the new science and ELA curriculum isn’t helping either with the race to the bottom.

I don't think it's that DCPS could care less, it's that they don't think JR being overcrowded is more of a problem than cutting out OOB students from the school would be.

They literally already addressed the problem at JR by creating a brand new high school for one of the two feeder middle schools. I really don't understand what you are all going on about.

It would take my kids 90 minutes to get to school that this “brand new high school for one of the two feeder middle schools”. It was foolish to make MA there and. it’s not a viable option for the vast majority of inbounds families. It’s a slap in the face. We had to leave DC.

This is overly dramatic and quite frankly ridiculous. The transportation situation isn’t perfect, but it is hardly 90 minutes to get to school for any inbound family. We are an Eaton family and it is most inconvenient for us, but it is not that inconvenient at all.

Also if you left DC, why are you still posting in this forum?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DCPS already DID deal with it by building out a whole new high school for one of the JR feeders.

Once JR is fully feeding only from Deal (SY28-29), you'll have around 250-320 students per grade (based on last 5 years of data on # of students who move on from Deal to JR). So 1,000 - 1,300 in a facility with capacity for 1,600.

There's no need to exclude OOB students with feeder rights.

Well this does not help current families at all so…..

And basically, Hardy families got screwed over having to go to MA which is a nightmare to get to and limited in academic, EC, and sports offerings.

If they did not do OOB feeder rights, JR could accommodate all IB ward 3 families.

But we know that the priority of DCPS was not ward 3 families. It is to get more OOB families in ward 3 schools.

It does help current families. This year the freshman class is smaller. Next year the freshman and sophomore class will be smaller. Etc.

Proposing to immediately change feeder rights across DCPS to fix a short-term problem at a single school is ridiculous. JR overcrowding is a long-standing problem that current families should have been aware of long before their students matriculated.

Forgot to add that Hardy families have had years of notice and grandfathering before students lost feeder rights to JR. But yes, sure, let's tell OOB families with students currently at JR that they need to find a new HS.

No one is saying to kick the OOB students out of JR. What people are saying is to end feeder rights at over crowded schools once the kids reach the terminal grade at their current school.

Yes this has been a long standing issue that families have raised again and again and that the solution would be to end feeder school rights. But of course OSSE and DCPS could care less and do nothing.

Families are not to blame. It is the messed up system and DCPS. No wonder so many families who have options are leaving DCPS altogether. BTW the new science and ELA curriculum isn’t helping either with the race to the bottom.

I don't think it's that DCPS could care less, it's that they don't think JR being overcrowded is more of a problem than cutting out OOB students from the school would be.

They literally already addressed the problem at JR by creating a brand new high school for one of the two feeder middle schools. I really don't understand what you are all going on about.

Opening MacArthur was a band-aid on the JR overcrowding problem. It’s not going to permanently solve the issue. If you’re so ignorant of this fact you probably should be sitting this conversation out.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DCPS already DID deal with it by building out a whole new high school for one of the JR feeders.

Once JR is fully feeding only from Deal (SY28-29), you'll have around 250-320 students per grade (based on last 5 years of data on # of students who move on from Deal to JR). So 1,000 - 1,300 in a facility with capacity for 1,600.

There's no need to exclude OOB students with feeder rights.

Well this does not help current families at all so…..

And basically, Hardy families got screwed over having to go to MA which is a nightmare to get to and limited in academic, EC, and sports offerings.

If they did not do OOB feeder rights, JR could accommodate all IB ward 3 families.

But we know that the priority of DCPS was not ward 3 families. It is to get more OOB families in ward 3 schools.

It does help current families. This year the freshman class is smaller. Next year the freshman and sophomore class will be smaller. Etc.

Proposing to immediately change feeder rights across DCPS to fix a short-term problem at a single school is ridiculous. JR overcrowding is a long-standing problem that current families should have been aware of long before their students matriculated.

Forgot to add that Hardy families have had years of notice and grandfathering before students lost feeder rights to JR. But yes, sure, let's tell OOB families with students currently at JR that they need to find a new HS.

No one is saying to kick the OOB students out of JR. What people are saying is to end feeder rights at over crowded schools once the kids reach the terminal grade at their current school.

Yes this has been a long standing issue that families have raised again and again and that the solution would be to end feeder school rights. But of course OSSE and DCPS could care less and do nothing.

Families are not to blame. It is the messed up system and DCPS. No wonder so many families who have options are leaving DCPS altogether. BTW the new science and ELA curriculum isn’t helping either with the race to the bottom.

I don't think it's that DCPS could care less, it's that they don't think JR being overcrowded is more of a problem than cutting out OOB students from the school would be.

They literally already addressed the problem at JR by creating a brand new high school for one of the two feeder middle schools. I really don't understand what you are all going on about.

Opening MacArthur was a band-aid on the JR overcrowding problem. It’s not going to permanently solve the issue. If you’re so ignorant of this fact you probably should be sitting this conversation out.

JR overcrowding is a Bowser problem because she needs rich EOTP donors in ward 4 to stay on her side. Once she’s gone, it’s going to be interesting. The political games around JR’s boundaries and the corruption around who gets to go for OOB students is a product of the DC machine, which may or may not get dismantled by the next mayor.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DCPS already DID deal with it by building out a whole new high school for one of the JR feeders.

Once JR is fully feeding only from Deal (SY28-29), you'll have around 250-320 students per grade (based on last 5 years of data on # of students who move on from Deal to JR). So 1,000 - 1,300 in a facility with capacity for 1,600.

There's no need to exclude OOB students with feeder rights.

Well this does not help current families at all so…..

And basically, Hardy families got screwed over having to go to MA which is a nightmare to get to and limited in academic, EC, and sports offerings.

If they did not do OOB feeder rights, JR could accommodate all IB ward 3 families.

But we know that the priority of DCPS was not ward 3 families. It is to get more OOB families in ward 3 schools.

It does help current families. This year the freshman class is smaller. Next year the freshman and sophomore class will be smaller. Etc.

Proposing to immediately change feeder rights across DCPS to fix a short-term problem at a single school is ridiculous. JR overcrowding is a long-standing problem that current families should have been aware of long before their students matriculated.

Forgot to add that Hardy families have had years of notice and grandfathering before students lost feeder rights to JR. But yes, sure, let's tell OOB families with students currently at JR that they need to find a new HS.

No one is saying to kick the OOB students out of JR. What people are saying is to end feeder rights at over crowded schools once the kids reach the terminal grade at their current school.

Yes this has been a long standing issue that families have raised again and again and that the solution would be to end feeder school rights. But of course OSSE and DCPS could care less and do nothing.

Families are not to blame. It is the messed up system and DCPS. No wonder so many families who have options are leaving DCPS altogether. BTW the new science and ELA curriculum isn’t helping either with the race to the bottom.

I don't think it's that DCPS could care less, it's that they don't think JR being overcrowded is more of a problem than cutting out OOB students from the school would be.

They literally already addressed the problem at JR by creating a brand new high school for one of the two feeder middle schools. I really don't understand what you are all going on about.

Opening MacArthur was a band-aid on the JR overcrowding problem. It’s not going to permanently solve the issue. If you’re so ignorant of this fact you probably should be sitting this conversation out.

It literally is, though. Deal has fewer kids than J-R is built for, and it will be the only feeder.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DCPS already DID deal with it by building out a whole new high school for one of the JR feeders.

Once JR is fully feeding only from Deal (SY28-29), you'll have around 250-320 students per grade (based on last 5 years of data on # of students who move on from Deal to JR). So 1,000 - 1,300 in a facility with capacity for 1,600.

There's no need to exclude OOB students with feeder rights.

Well this does not help current families at all so…..

And basically, Hardy families got screwed over having to go to MA which is a nightmare to get to and limited in academic, EC, and sports offerings.

If they did not do OOB feeder rights, JR could accommodate all IB ward 3 families.

But we know that the priority of DCPS was not ward 3 families. It is to get more OOB families in ward 3 schools.

It does help current families. This year the freshman class is smaller. Next year the freshman and sophomore class will be smaller. Etc.

Proposing to immediately change feeder rights across DCPS to fix a short-term problem at a single school is ridiculous. JR overcrowding is a long-standing problem that current families should have been aware of long before their students matriculated.

Forgot to add that Hardy families have had years of notice and grandfathering before students lost feeder rights to JR. But yes, sure, let's tell OOB families with students currently at JR that they need to find a new HS.

No one is saying to kick the OOB students out of JR. What people are saying is to end feeder rights at over crowded schools once the kids reach the terminal grade at their current school.

Yes this has been a long standing issue that families have raised again and again and that the solution would be to end feeder school rights. But of course OSSE and DCPS could care less and do nothing.

Families are not to blame. It is the messed up system and DCPS. No wonder so many families who have options are leaving DCPS altogether. BTW the new science and ELA curriculum isn’t helping either with the race to the bottom.

I don't think it's that DCPS could care less, it's that they don't think JR being overcrowded is more of a problem than cutting out OOB students from the school would be.

They literally already addressed the problem at JR by creating a brand new high school for one of the two feeder middle schools. I really don't understand what you are all going on about.

Opening MacArthur was a band-aid on the JR overcrowding problem. It’s not going to permanently solve the issue. If you’re so ignorant of this fact you probably should be sitting this conversation out.

SY19-20: 316 students from Deal to JR
SY20-21: 311 students from Deal to JR
SY21-22: 289 students from Deal to JR
SY22-23: 259 students from Deal to JR
SY23-24: 257 students from Deal to JR

So once Deal is the only feeder there will be around 1,000 - 1,300 students in a facility with capacity for 1,600. And probably on the lower end of that estimate based on more recent trends.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:DCPS already DID deal with it by building out a whole new high school for one of the JR feeders.

Once JR is fully feeding only from Deal (SY28-29), you'll have around 250-320 students per grade (based on last 5 years of data on # of students who move on from Deal to JR). So 1,000 - 1,300 in a facility with capacity for 1,600.

There's no need to exclude OOB students with feeder rights.

Well this does not help current families at all so…..

And basically, Hardy families got screwed over having to go to MA which is a nightmare to get to and limited in academic, EC, and sports offerings.

If they did not do OOB feeder rights, JR could accommodate all IB ward 3 families.

But we know that the priority of DCPS was not ward 3 families. It is to get more OOB families in ward 3 schools.

It does help current families. This year the freshman class is smaller. Next year the freshman and sophomore class will be smaller. Etc.

Proposing to immediately change feeder rights across DCPS to fix a short-term problem at a single school is ridiculous. JR overcrowding is a long-standing problem that current families should have been aware of long before their students matriculated.

Forgot to add that Hardy families have had years of notice and grandfathering before students lost feeder rights to JR. But yes, sure, let's tell OOB families with students currently at JR that they need to find a new HS.

No one is saying to kick the OOB students out of JR. What people are saying is to end feeder rights at over crowded schools once the kids reach the terminal grade at their current school.

Yes this has been a long standing issue that families have raised again and again and that the solution would be to end feeder school rights. But of course OSSE and DCPS could care less and do nothing.

Families are not to blame. It is the messed up system and DCPS. No wonder so many families who have options are leaving DCPS altogether. BTW the new science and ELA curriculum isn’t helping either with the race to the bottom.

I don't think it's that DCPS could care less, it's that they don't think JR being overcrowded is more of a problem than cutting out OOB students from the school would be.

They literally already addressed the problem at JR by creating a brand new high school for one of the two feeder middle schools. I really don't understand what you are all going on about.

It would take my kids 90 minutes to get to school that this “brand new high school for one of the two feeder middle schools”. It was foolish to make MA there and. it’s not a viable option for the vast majority of inbounds families. It’s a slap in the face. We had to leave DC.

This is overly dramatic and quite frankly ridiculous. The transportation situation isn’t perfect, but it is hardly 90 minutes to get to school for any inbound family. We are an Eaton family and it is most inconvenient for us, but it is not that inconvenient at all.

Also if you left DC, why are you still posting in this forum?

Serious - where is this family located? Like come on.