Boundary Study Townhalls - first one starts now

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Anonymous wrote:Didn't moving Eaton to Hardy and then Hardy to MacArthur address overcrowding in at Jackson Reed? Is it projected to be over-enrolled after Hardy students lose their feeder rights to J-R? I thought that the whole reason for opening MacArthur in the first place.

This is correct. It's a non issue, but muscle memory continues to have people fighting for scraps. Even Deal is under enrollment from pre covid highs. JR will be under 1700 next year and will continue to drop

JR is at 2200 students this year. Hardy sent like 100-150 students to JR each year. Explain the math.

Umm..... 150 per class for 4 classes is 600? 2200 - 600 is 1600.

The JR overcrowding will be solved, but the Deal overcrowding needs a solution.

Also, I question the 2200. 2021-2022 audited number was 2062. I'll wait for the actual audited number for 22-23 and 23-24 before believing a random DCUM. Until then, we should use 2062.

2062-600 is 1462. Not to mention the natural attrition that has been happening at JR the last few years. Students will continue to peel off for Walls, private, and now even Banneker!

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Anonymous wrote:I wish DCPS had planned for a new middle or high school on the Walter Reed campus. Maybe there’s a reason they didn’t consider, but all their fixes seem so short sighted.

Yes, they have been unable to plan ahead. The boundary study now being done isn't going to solve that, unfortunately. Ideally, a boundary study and investment in new schools would go together.

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Anonymous wrote:Push Shepherd to Coolidge and the south part of the Coolidge catchment further south to the underenrolled schools, just like Hardy is being pushed south to MacA. There are plenty of open seats at existing schools.

Or instead of pushing anyone EOTP which the city has clearly stated they don't want, push another school in W3 to Hardy and MacArthur. Easier pull to swallow sending kids to equal performing schools don't you think? Unless you really are determined to make JR and Deal all white.

Push some EOTP students south and you’ll get a higher performing school. Unless you don’t want to go where there are so many OOB kids? Why is that?

I don't live in Shepherd Park but your logic makes zero sense and you know it. Shepherd's 40 kids will make zero difference at Coolidge (already at 100% capacity). So you'd need to send 250 kids from Coolidge to Brookland middle and Dunbar. Then you can send the 40 kids from Shepherd and the 200 kids from Lafayette. Yes. I agree, that could be tenable. But now you got an under-enrolled Deal and JR, same as Hardy and MacArthur. It would make more sense to take some kids from Janney and send them to Hardy and MacArthur.

Also Deal/JR to Hardy/MA, you're more likely to have buy-in. With moving kids from Wells/Coolidge to Brookland/Dunbar and then Deal/JR to Wells/Coolidge, you're pissing off and possibly losing 450 families vs 200 from Janney (or insert W3 neighborhood). Also W3 going to Hardy/MA is as close to even trade as you can get. The other scenario, everyone goes down in quality. Not to mention, you now have an all white Deal/JR.

I’m confused why you think there are only white kids enrolled at Deal feeders WOTP

Janney: 4% Black
Murch: 13% Black
Lafayette: 8% Black
Hearst: 17% Black
Deal: 26% Black
Hardy: 29% Black
DCPS: 57% Black, 22% Hispanic, 17% White

Ok but that still doesn’t add up to an all white Deal and JR.

I’m also very confused why we must insist that schools be the exact same percentages of the city for every school. Are we insisting that schools in Ward 8 take Hispanic kids? Because I don’t think we are.

Is anyone insisting on that? I think they are just pointing out that JR feeders are self segregated, in some cases extremely so.

There is no way to fix that. Houses are 1 million plus. The apartments are accepting vouchers so more at risk kids are getting in to Murch and Hearst. Janney has no apartments and Lafayette has very few. Maybe they should move some of the apartment buildings to those schools.

The only other way to fix it is to blow up neighborhood schools and that is not going to happen.

There absolutely is a way to try to fix it. Janney and Lafayette should not accept one single kid via lottery that is not at-risk. Period. You want extra funding to round out your new 2nd grade bubble class, all 10 of the kids you need to get there have to be at-risk. It's a simple fix. I know someone that got off the list OOB this year at one of the schools that is a very wealthy Crestwood family. That should no longer occur.

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Anonymous wrote:Didn't moving Eaton to Hardy and then Hardy to MacArthur address overcrowding in at Jackson Reed? Is it projected to be over-enrolled after Hardy students lose their feeder rights to J-R? I thought that the whole reason for opening MacArthur in the first place.

This is correct. It's a non issue, but muscle memory continues to have people fighting for scraps. Even Deal is under enrollment from pre covid highs. JR will be under 1700 next year and will continue to drop

JR is at 2200 students this year. Hardy sent like 100-150 students to JR each year. Explain the math.

Umm..... 150 per class for 4 classes is 600? 2200 - 600 is 1600.

The JR overcrowding will be solved, but the Deal overcrowding needs a solution.

Also, I question the 2200. 2021-2022 audited number was 2062. I'll wait for the actual audited number for 22-23 and 23-24 before believing a random DCUM. Until then, we should use 2062.

2062-600 is 1462. Not to mention the natural attrition that has been happening at JR the last few years. Students will continue to peel off for Walls, private, and now even Banneker!

Walls isn't expanding its class, so there really are no more or less kids going to Walls as before. Walls has always attracted a fairly large %age of its classes from kids in the JR boundary. Can't comment on Banneker...might be true, but i kind of doubt it. Unless something has changed, I feel like year-in-year-out like 80% of Deal goes to JR.

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Anonymous wrote:Push Shepherd to Coolidge and the south part of the Coolidge catchment further south to the underenrolled schools, just like Hardy is being pushed south to MacA. There are plenty of open seats at existing schools.

Or instead of pushing anyone EOTP which the city has clearly stated they don't want, push another school in W3 to Hardy and MacArthur. Easier pull to swallow sending kids to equal performing schools don't you think? Unless you really are determined to make JR and Deal all white.

Push some EOTP students south and you’ll get a higher performing school. Unless you don’t want to go where there are so many OOB kids? Why is that?

I don't live in Shepherd Park but your logic makes zero sense and you know it. Shepherd's 40 kids will make zero difference at Coolidge (already at 100% capacity). So you'd need to send 250 kids from Coolidge to Brookland middle and Dunbar. Then you can send the 40 kids from Shepherd and the 200 kids from Lafayette. Yes. I agree, that could be tenable. But now you got an under-enrolled Deal and JR, same as Hardy and MacArthur. It would make more sense to take some kids from Janney and send them to Hardy and MacArthur.

Also Deal/JR to Hardy/MA, you're more likely to have buy-in. With moving kids from Wells/Coolidge to Brookland/Dunbar and then Deal/JR to Wells/Coolidge, you're pissing off and possibly losing 450 families vs 200 from Janney (or insert W3 neighborhood). Also W3 going to Hardy/MA is as close to even trade as you can get. The other scenario, everyone goes down in quality. Not to mention, you now have an all white Deal/JR.

I’m confused why you think there are only white kids enrolled at Deal feeders WOTP

Janney: 4% Black
Murch: 13% Black
Lafayette: 8% Black
Hearst: 17% Black
Deal: 26% Black
Hardy: 29% Black
DCPS: 57% Black, 22% Hispanic, 17% White

Ok but that still doesn’t add up to an all white Deal and JR.

I’m also very confused why we must insist that schools be the exact same percentages of the city for every school. Are we insisting that schools in Ward 8 take Hispanic kids? Because I don’t think we are.

Is anyone insisting on that? I think they are just pointing out that JR feeders are self segregated, in some cases extremely so.

There is no way to fix that. Houses are 1 million plus. The apartments are accepting vouchers so more at risk kids are getting in to Murch and Hearst. Janney has no apartments and Lafayette has very few. Maybe they should move some of the apartment buildings to those schools.

The only other way to fix it is to blow up neighborhood schools and that is not going to happen.

There absolutely is a way to try to fix it. Janney and Lafayette should not accept one single kid via lottery that is not at-risk. Period. You want extra funding to round out your new 2nd grade bubble class, all 10 of the kids you need to get there have to be at-risk. It's a simple fix. I know someone that got off the list OOB this year at one of the schools that is a very wealthy Crestwood family. That should no longer occur.

As an OOB family at one of those schools, I think it will be difficult to fill at-risk elementary slots. It’s a colossal pain in the ass to schlep your kid across the park every day. Lafayette especially is in the middle of nowhere and poorly served with public transit. Not dissing your idea, but sadly it takes privilege on top of lottery luck to attend these schools OOB.

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Anonymous wrote:Push Shepherd to Coolidge and the south part of the Coolidge catchment further south to the underenrolled schools, just like Hardy is being pushed south to MacA. There are plenty of open seats at existing schools.

Or instead of pushing anyone EOTP which the city has clearly stated they don't want, push another school in W3 to Hardy and MacArthur. Easier pull to swallow sending kids to equal performing schools don't you think? Unless you really are determined to make JR and Deal all white.

Push some EOTP students south and you’ll get a higher performing school. Unless you don’t want to go where there are so many OOB kids? Why is that?

I don't live in Shepherd Park but your logic makes zero sense and you know it. Shepherd's 40 kids will make zero difference at Coolidge (already at 100% capacity). So you'd need to send 250 kids from Coolidge to Brookland middle and Dunbar. Then you can send the 40 kids from Shepherd and the 200 kids from Lafayette. Yes. I agree, that could be tenable. But now you got an under-enrolled Deal and JR, same as Hardy and MacArthur. It would make more sense to take some kids from Janney and send them to Hardy and MacArthur.

Also Deal/JR to Hardy/MA, you're more likely to have buy-in. With moving kids from Wells/Coolidge to Brookland/Dunbar and then Deal/JR to Wells/Coolidge, you're pissing off and possibly losing 450 families vs 200 from Janney (or insert W3 neighborhood). Also W3 going to Hardy/MA is as close to even trade as you can get. The other scenario, everyone goes down in quality. Not to mention, you now have an all white Deal/JR.

I’m confused why you think there are only white kids enrolled at Deal feeders WOTP

Janney: 4% Black
Murch: 13% Black
Lafayette: 8% Black
Hearst: 17% Black
Deal: 26% Black
Hardy: 29% Black
DCPS: 57% Black, 22% Hispanic, 17% White

Ok but that still doesn’t add up to an all white Deal and JR.

I’m also very confused why we must insist that schools be the exact same percentages of the city for every school. Are we insisting that schools in Ward 8 take Hispanic kids? Because I don’t think we are.

Is anyone insisting on that? I think they are just pointing out that JR feeders are self segregated, in some cases extremely so.

There is no way to fix that. Houses are 1 million plus. The apartments are accepting vouchers so more at risk kids are getting in to Murch and Hearst. Janney has no apartments and Lafayette has very few. Maybe they should move some of the apartment buildings to those schools.

The only other way to fix it is to blow up neighborhood schools and that is not going to happen.

There absolutely is a way to try to fix it. Janney and Lafayette should not accept one single kid via lottery that is not at-risk. Period. You want extra funding to round out your new 2nd grade bubble class, all 10 of the kids you need to get there have to be at-risk. It's a simple fix. I know someone that got off the list OOB this year at one of the schools that is a very wealthy Crestwood family. That should no longer occur.

As an OOB family at one of those schools, I think it will be difficult to fill at-risk elementary slots. It’s a colossal pain in the ass to schlep your kid across the park every day. Lafayette especially is in the middle of nowhere and poorly served with public transit. Not dissing your idea, but sadly it takes privilege on top of lottery luck to attend these schools OOB.

No school should offer lottery slots if it is at capacity. There are plenty of empty seats in DCPS. Any extra capacity at any school should first be offered to at-risk students until slots are full or no at-risk students choose to take the spots. All others who want out of their neighborhood school need to get in line behind the at-risk kids.

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Anonymous wrote:Push Shepherd to Coolidge and the south part of the Coolidge catchment further south to the underenrolled schools, just like Hardy is being pushed south to MacA. There are plenty of open seats at existing schools.

Or instead of pushing anyone EOTP which the city has clearly stated they don't want, push another school in W3 to Hardy and MacArthur. Easier pull to swallow sending kids to equal performing schools don't you think? Unless you really are determined to make JR and Deal all white.

Push some EOTP students south and you’ll get a higher performing school. Unless you don’t want to go where there are so many OOB kids? Why is that?

I don't live in Shepherd Park but your logic makes zero sense and you know it. Shepherd's 40 kids will make zero difference at Coolidge (already at 100% capacity). So you'd need to send 250 kids from Coolidge to Brookland middle and Dunbar. Then you can send the 40 kids from Shepherd and the 200 kids from Lafayette. Yes. I agree, that could be tenable. But now you got an under-enrolled Deal and JR, same as Hardy and MacArthur. It would make more sense to take some kids from Janney and send them to Hardy and MacArthur.

Also Deal/JR to Hardy/MA, you're more likely to have buy-in. With moving kids from Wells/Coolidge to Brookland/Dunbar and then Deal/JR to Wells/Coolidge, you're pissing off and possibly losing 450 families vs 200 from Janney (or insert W3 neighborhood). Also W3 going to Hardy/MA is as close to even trade as you can get. The other scenario, everyone goes down in quality. Not to mention, you now have an all white Deal/JR.

I’m confused why you think there are only white kids enrolled at Deal feeders WOTP

Janney: 4% Black
Murch: 13% Black
Lafayette: 8% Black
Hearst: 17% Black
Deal: 26% Black
Hardy: 29% Black
DCPS: 57% Black, 22% Hispanic, 17% White

Ok but that still doesn’t add up to an all white Deal and JR.

I’m also very confused why we must insist that schools be the exact same percentages of the city for every school. Are we insisting that schools in Ward 8 take Hispanic kids? Because I don’t think we are.

Is anyone insisting on that? I think they are just pointing out that JR feeders are self segregated, in some cases extremely so.

There is no way to fix that. Houses are 1 million plus. The apartments are accepting vouchers so more at risk kids are getting in to Murch and Hearst. Janney has no apartments and Lafayette has very few. Maybe they should move some of the apartment buildings to those schools.

The only other way to fix it is to blow up neighborhood schools and that is not going to happen.

There absolutely is a way to try to fix it. Janney and Lafayette should not accept one single kid via lottery that is not at-risk. Period. You want extra funding to round out your new 2nd grade bubble class, all 10 of the kids you need to get there have to be at-risk. It's a simple fix. I know someone that got off the list OOB this year at one of the schools that is a very wealthy Crestwood family. That should no longer occur.

As an OOB family at one of those schools, I think it will be difficult to fill at-risk elementary slots. It’s a colossal pain in the ass to schlep your kid across the park every day. Lafayette especially is in the middle of nowhere and poorly served with public transit. Not dissing your idea, but sadly it takes privilege on top of lottery luck to attend these schools OOB.

No school should offer lottery slots if it is at capacity. There are plenty of empty seats in DCPS. Any extra capacity at any school should first be offered to at-risk students until slots are full or no at-risk students choose to take the spots. All others who want out of their neighborhood school need to get in line behind the at-risk kids.

Maybe they should provide a bus. Because right now you are letting Mann, Key, Stoddert etc off the hook.

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Anonymous wrote:Push Shepherd to Coolidge and the south part of the Coolidge catchment further south to the underenrolled schools, just like Hardy is being pushed south to MacA. There are plenty of open seats at existing schools.

Or instead of pushing anyone EOTP which the city has clearly stated they don't want, push another school in W3 to Hardy and MacArthur. Easier pull to swallow sending kids to equal performing schools don't you think? Unless you really are determined to make JR and Deal all white.

Push some EOTP students south and you’ll get a higher performing school. Unless you don’t want to go where there are so many OOB kids? Why is that?

I don't live in Shepherd Park but your logic makes zero sense and you know it. Shepherd's 40 kids will make zero difference at Coolidge (already at 100% capacity). So you'd need to send 250 kids from Coolidge to Brookland middle and Dunbar. Then you can send the 40 kids from Shepherd and the 200 kids from Lafayette. Yes. I agree, that could be tenable. But now you got an under-enrolled Deal and JR, same as Hardy and MacArthur. It would make more sense to take some kids from Janney and send them to Hardy and MacArthur.

Also Deal/JR to Hardy/MA, you're more likely to have buy-in. With moving kids from Wells/Coolidge to Brookland/Dunbar and then Deal/JR to Wells/Coolidge, you're pissing off and possibly losing 450 families vs 200 from Janney (or insert W3 neighborhood). Also W3 going to Hardy/MA is as close to even trade as you can get. The other scenario, everyone goes down in quality. Not to mention, you now have an all white Deal/JR.

I’m confused why you think there are only white kids enrolled at Deal feeders WOTP

Janney: 4% Black
Murch: 13% Black
Lafayette: 8% Black
Hearst: 17% Black
Deal: 26% Black
Hardy: 29% Black
DCPS: 57% Black, 22% Hispanic, 17% White

Ok but that still doesn’t add up to an all white Deal and JR.

I’m also very confused why we must insist that schools be the exact same percentages of the city for every school. Are we insisting that schools in Ward 8 take Hispanic kids? Because I don’t think we are.

Is anyone insisting on that? I think they are just pointing out that JR feeders are self segregated, in some cases extremely so.

There is no way to fix that. Houses are 1 million plus. The apartments are accepting vouchers so more at risk kids are getting in to Murch and Hearst. Janney has no apartments and Lafayette has very few. Maybe they should move some of the apartment buildings to those schools.

The only other way to fix it is to blow up neighborhood schools and that is not going to happen.

There absolutely is a way to try to fix it. Janney and Lafayette should not accept one single kid via lottery that is not at-risk. Period. You want extra funding to round out your new 2nd grade bubble class, all 10 of the kids you need to get there have to be at-risk. It's a simple fix. I know someone that got off the list OOB this year at one of the schools that is a very wealthy Crestwood family. That should no longer occur.

As an OOB family at one of those schools, I think it will be difficult to fill at-risk elementary slots. It’s a colossal pain in the ass to schlep your kid across the park every day. Lafayette especially is in the middle of nowhere and poorly served with public transit. Not dissing your idea, but sadly it takes privilege on top of lottery luck to attend these schools OOB.

NP. This is why rich kids should integrate low performing schools. It will never happen because most UMC and wealthy are all about opportunity hoarding and only want to appear concerned by placing a social justice sign in their yard. They actually don’t care and won’t work to make DCPS better.

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Anonymous wrote:Push Shepherd to Coolidge and the south part of the Coolidge catchment further south to the underenrolled schools, just like Hardy is being pushed south to MacA. There are plenty of open seats at existing schools.

Or instead of pushing anyone EOTP which the city has clearly stated they don't want, push another school in W3 to Hardy and MacArthur. Easier pull to swallow sending kids to equal performing schools don't you think? Unless you really are determined to make JR and Deal all white.

Push some EOTP students south and you’ll get a higher performing school. Unless you don’t want to go where there are so many OOB kids? Why is that?

I don't live in Shepherd Park but your logic makes zero sense and you know it. Shepherd's 40 kids will make zero difference at Coolidge (already at 100% capacity). So you'd need to send 250 kids from Coolidge to Brookland middle and Dunbar. Then you can send the 40 kids from Shepherd and the 200 kids from Lafayette. Yes. I agree, that could be tenable. But now you got an under-enrolled Deal and JR, same as Hardy and MacArthur. It would make more sense to take some kids from Janney and send them to Hardy and MacArthur.

Also Deal/JR to Hardy/MA, you're more likely to have buy-in. With moving kids from Wells/Coolidge to Brookland/Dunbar and then Deal/JR to Wells/Coolidge, you're pissing off and possibly losing 450 families vs 200 from Janney (or insert W3 neighborhood). Also W3 going to Hardy/MA is as close to even trade as you can get. The other scenario, everyone goes down in quality. Not to mention, you now have an all white Deal/JR.

I’m confused why you think there are only white kids enrolled at Deal feeders WOTP

Janney: 4% Black
Murch: 13% Black
Lafayette: 8% Black
Hearst: 17% Black
Deal: 26% Black
Hardy: 29% Black
DCPS: 57% Black, 22% Hispanic, 17% White

Ok but that still doesn’t add up to an all white Deal and JR.

I’m also very confused why we must insist that schools be the exact same percentages of the city for every school. Are we insisting that schools in Ward 8 take Hispanic kids? Because I don’t think we are.

Is anyone insisting on that? I think they are just pointing out that JR feeders are self segregated, in some cases extremely so.

There is no way to fix that. Houses are 1 million plus. The apartments are accepting vouchers so more at risk kids are getting in to Murch and Hearst. Janney has no apartments and Lafayette has very few. Maybe they should move some of the apartment buildings to those schools.

The only other way to fix it is to blow up neighborhood schools and that is not going to happen.

There absolutely is a way to try to fix it. Janney and Lafayette should not accept one single kid via lottery that is not at-risk. Period. You want extra funding to round out your new 2nd grade bubble class, all 10 of the kids you need to get there have to be at-risk. It's a simple fix. I know someone that got off the list OOB this year at one of the schools that is a very wealthy Crestwood family. That should no longer occur.

As an OOB family at one of those schools, I think it will be difficult to fill at-risk elementary slots. It’s a colossal pain in the ass to schlep your kid across the park every day. Lafayette especially is in the middle of nowhere and poorly served with public transit. Not dissing your idea, but sadly it takes privilege on top of lottery luck to attend these schools OOB.

I know plenty of W7 and W8 kids commuting to attend Shepherd, Deal, JR, and DCI. Why would they not also commute to Lafayette or Janney given the opportunity. There is a way to have equitable access for these schools. Yes, they should not be enrolling over capacity but 100% of the lottery spots should be at risk. Not even 10-15% but 100% of them.

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Anonymous wrote:Push Shepherd to Coolidge and the south part of the Coolidge catchment further south to the underenrolled schools, just like Hardy is being pushed south to MacA. There are plenty of open seats at existing schools.

Or instead of pushing anyone EOTP which the city has clearly stated they don't want, push another school in W3 to Hardy and MacArthur. Easier pull to swallow sending kids to equal performing schools don't you think? Unless you really are determined to make JR and Deal all white.

Push some EOTP students south and you’ll get a higher performing school. Unless you don’t want to go where there are so many OOB kids? Why is that?

I don't live in Shepherd Park but your logic makes zero sense and you know it. Shepherd's 40 kids will make zero difference at Coolidge (already at 100% capacity). So you'd need to send 250 kids from Coolidge to Brookland middle and Dunbar. Then you can send the 40 kids from Shepherd and the 200 kids from Lafayette. Yes. I agree, that could be tenable. But now you got an under-enrolled Deal and JR, same as Hardy and MacArthur. It would make more sense to take some kids from Janney and send them to Hardy and MacArthur.

Also Deal/JR to Hardy/MA, you're more likely to have buy-in. With moving kids from Wells/Coolidge to Brookland/Dunbar and then Deal/JR to Wells/Coolidge, you're pissing off and possibly losing 450 families vs 200 from Janney (or insert W3 neighborhood). Also W3 going to Hardy/MA is as close to even trade as you can get. The other scenario, everyone goes down in quality. Not to mention, you now have an all white Deal/JR.

I’m confused why you think there are only white kids enrolled at Deal feeders WOTP

Janney: 4% Black
Murch: 13% Black
Lafayette: 8% Black
Hearst: 17% Black
Deal: 26% Black
Hardy: 29% Black
DCPS: 57% Black, 22% Hispanic, 17% White

Ok but that still doesn’t add up to an all white Deal and JR.

I’m also very confused why we must insist that schools be the exact same percentages of the city for every school. Are we insisting that schools in Ward 8 take Hispanic kids? Because I don’t think we are.

Is anyone insisting on that? I think they are just pointing out that JR feeders are self segregated, in some cases extremely so.

There is no way to fix that. Houses are 1 million plus. The apartments are accepting vouchers so more at risk kids are getting in to Murch and Hearst. Janney has no apartments and Lafayette has very few. Maybe they should move some of the apartment buildings to those schools.

The only other way to fix it is to blow up neighborhood schools and that is not going to happen.

There absolutely is a way to try to fix it. Janney and Lafayette should not accept one single kid via lottery that is not at-risk. Period. You want extra funding to round out your new 2nd grade bubble class, all 10 of the kids you need to get there have to be at-risk. It's a simple fix. I know someone that got off the list OOB this year at one of the schools that is a very wealthy Crestwood family. That should no longer occur.

As an OOB family at one of those schools, I think it will be difficult to fill at-risk elementary slots. It’s a colossal pain in the ass to schlep your kid across the park every day. Lafayette especially is in the middle of nowhere and poorly served with public transit. Not dissing your idea, but sadly it takes privilege on top of lottery luck to attend these schools OOB.

I know plenty of W7 and W8 kids commuting to attend Shepherd, Deal, JR, and DCI. Why would they not also commute to Lafayette or Janney given the opportunity. There is a way to have equitable access for these schools. Yes, they should not be enrolling over capacity but 100% of the lottery spots should be at risk. Not even 10-15% but 100% of them.

And if you are going to shut out MC kids in Wards 7,8,4, etc. from the lottery, you need to make MC students in some of the wealthier schools (Lafayette, Shepherd, Murch, and now Bancroft, etc.) share the resources that flow with them by integrating schools EOTP. You can draw lines dictated by property values and say the kids on military road a certain section of 16th Street get the golden ticket, and the other section of 16th street or the kids on Piney Branch can never get access to "Wilson for All" because their houses are not worth as much.

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To me it seems like a lottery/enrollment overhaul would fix crowding issues and boundaries wouldn't have to be touched. Two thoughts that never made sense to me:
1.) When you move out of bounds, why do you get to stay in that previous school?
2.) When you lottery into an elementary school, why do you get automatic enrollment into the feeder middle/high schools?

I'm sure someone will say these rules were invented to provide at-risk kids an advantage, but based on this thread, it sounds like higher SES families benefit as much if not more.

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Anonymous wrote:Push Shepherd to Coolidge and the south part of the Coolidge catchment further south to the underenrolled schools, just like Hardy is being pushed south to MacA. There are plenty of open seats at existing schools.

Or instead of pushing anyone EOTP which the city has clearly stated they don't want, push another school in W3 to Hardy and MacArthur. Easier pull to swallow sending kids to equal performing schools don't you think? Unless you really are determined to make JR and Deal all white.

Push some EOTP students south and you’ll get a higher performing school. Unless you don’t want to go where there are so many OOB kids? Why is that?

I don't live in Shepherd Park but your logic makes zero sense and you know it. Shepherd's 40 kids will make zero difference at Coolidge (already at 100% capacity). So you'd need to send 250 kids from Coolidge to Brookland middle and Dunbar. Then you can send the 40 kids from Shepherd and the 200 kids from Lafayette. Yes. I agree, that could be tenable. But now you got an under-enrolled Deal and JR, same as Hardy and MacArthur. It would make more sense to take some kids from Janney and send them to Hardy and MacArthur.

Also Deal/JR to Hardy/MA, you're more likely to have buy-in. With moving kids from Wells/Coolidge to Brookland/Dunbar and then Deal/JR to Wells/Coolidge, you're pissing off and possibly losing 450 families vs 200 from Janney (or insert W3 neighborhood). Also W3 going to Hardy/MA is as close to even trade as you can get. The other scenario, everyone goes down in quality. Not to mention, you now have an all white Deal/JR.

I’m confused why you think there are only white kids enrolled at Deal feeders WOTP

Janney: 4% Black
Murch: 13% Black
Lafayette: 8% Black
Hearst: 17% Black
Deal: 26% Black
Hardy: 29% Black
DCPS: 57% Black, 22% Hispanic, 17% White

Ok but that still doesn’t add up to an all white Deal and JR.

I’m also very confused why we must insist that schools be the exact same percentages of the city for every school. Are we insisting that schools in Ward 8 take Hispanic kids? Because I don’t think we are.

Is anyone insisting on that? I think they are just pointing out that JR feeders are self segregated, in some cases extremely so.

There is no way to fix that. Houses are 1 million plus. The apartments are accepting vouchers so more at risk kids are getting in to Murch and Hearst. Janney has no apartments and Lafayette has very few. Maybe they should move some of the apartment buildings to those schools.

The only other way to fix it is to blow up neighborhood schools and that is not going to happen.

There absolutely is a way to try to fix it. Janney and Lafayette should not accept one single kid via lottery that is not at-risk. Period. You want extra funding to round out your new 2nd grade bubble class, all 10 of the kids you need to get there have to be at-risk. It's a simple fix. I know someone that got off the list OOB this year at one of the schools that is a very wealthy Crestwood family. That should no longer occur.

As an OOB family at one of those schools, I think it will be difficult to fill at-risk elementary slots. It’s a colossal pain in the ass to schlep your kid across the park every day. Lafayette especially is in the middle of nowhere and poorly served with public transit. Not dissing your idea, but sadly it takes privilege on top of lottery luck to attend these schools OOB.

No school should offer lottery slots if it is at capacity. There are plenty of empty seats in DCPS. Any extra capacity at any school should first be offered to at-risk students until slots are full or no at-risk students choose to take the spots. All others who want out of their neighborhood school need to get in line behind the at-risk kids.

Maybe they should provide a bus. Because right now you are letting Mann, Key, Stoddert etc off the hook.

Why does this let them off the hook?

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1.) When you move out of bounds, why do you get to stay in that previous school?
2.) When you lottery into an elementary school, why do you get automatic enrollment into the feeder middle/high schools?

I'm sure someone will say these rules were invented to provide at-risk kids an advantage, but based on this thread, it sounds like higher SES families benefit as much if not more.

I agree with this 100% and have always thought this is the #1 thing that needs addressed. Couple that with a set aside for at -risk, gives more opportunities for elementary level, middle, and high school level.

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Anonymous wrote:Push Shepherd to Coolidge and the south part of the Coolidge catchment further south to the underenrolled schools, just like Hardy is being pushed south to MacA. There are plenty of open seats at existing schools.

Or instead of pushing anyone EOTP which the city has clearly stated they don't want, push another school in W3 to Hardy and MacArthur. Easier pull to swallow sending kids to equal performing schools don't you think? Unless you really are determined to make JR and Deal all white.

Push some EOTP students south and you’ll get a higher performing school. Unless you don’t want to go where there are so many OOB kids? Why is that?

I don't live in Shepherd Park but your logic makes zero sense and you know it. Shepherd's 40 kids will make zero difference at Coolidge (already at 100% capacity). So you'd need to send 250 kids from Coolidge to Brookland middle and Dunbar. Then you can send the 40 kids from Shepherd and the 200 kids from Lafayette. Yes. I agree, that could be tenable. But now you got an under-enrolled Deal and JR, same as Hardy and MacArthur. It would make more sense to take some kids from Janney and send them to Hardy and MacArthur.

Also Deal/JR to Hardy/MA, you're more likely to have buy-in. With moving kids from Wells/Coolidge to Brookland/Dunbar and then Deal/JR to Wells/Coolidge, you're pissing off and possibly losing 450 families vs 200 from Janney (or insert W3 neighborhood). Also W3 going to Hardy/MA is as close to even trade as you can get. The other scenario, everyone goes down in quality. Not to mention, you now have an all white Deal/JR.

I’m confused why you think there are only white kids enrolled at Deal feeders WOTP

Janney: 4% Black
Murch: 13% Black
Lafayette: 8% Black
Hearst: 17% Black
Deal: 26% Black
Hardy: 29% Black
DCPS: 57% Black, 22% Hispanic, 17% White

Ok but that still doesn’t add up to an all white Deal and JR.

I’m also very confused why we must insist that schools be the exact same percentages of the city for every school. Are we insisting that schools in Ward 8 take Hispanic kids? Because I don’t think we are.

Is anyone insisting on that? I think they are just pointing out that JR feeders are self segregated, in some cases extremely so.

There is no way to fix that. Houses are 1 million plus. The apartments are accepting vouchers so more at risk kids are getting in to Murch and Hearst. Janney has no apartments and Lafayette has very few. Maybe they should move some of the apartment buildings to those schools.

The only other way to fix it is to blow up neighborhood schools and that is not going to happen.

There absolutely is a way to try to fix it. Janney and Lafayette should not accept one single kid via lottery that is not at-risk. Period. You want extra funding to round out your new 2nd grade bubble class, all 10 of the kids you need to get there have to be at-risk. It's a simple fix. I know someone that got off the list OOB this year at one of the schools that is a very wealthy Crestwood family. That should no longer occur.

As an OOB family at one of those schools, I think it will be difficult to fill at-risk elementary slots. It’s a colossal pain in the ass to schlep your kid across the park every day. Lafayette especially is in the middle of nowhere and poorly served with public transit. Not dissing your idea, but sadly it takes privilege on top of lottery luck to attend these schools OOB.

NP. This is why rich kids should integrate low performing schools. It will never happen because most UMC and wealthy are all about opportunity hoarding and only want to appear concerned by placing a social justice sign in their yard. They actually don’t care and won’t work to make DCPS better.

Rich kids don’t go to DCPS schools.

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Anonymous wrote:Push Shepherd to Coolidge and the south part of the Coolidge catchment further south to the underenrolled schools, just like Hardy is being pushed south to MacA. There are plenty of open seats at existing schools.

Or instead of pushing anyone EOTP which the city has clearly stated they don't want, push another school in W3 to Hardy and MacArthur. Easier pull to swallow sending kids to equal performing schools don't you think? Unless you really are determined to make JR and Deal all white.

Push some EOTP students south and you’ll get a higher performing school. Unless you don’t want to go where there are so many OOB kids? Why is that?

I don't live in Shepherd Park but your logic makes zero sense and you know it. Shepherd's 40 kids will make zero difference at Coolidge (already at 100% capacity). So you'd need to send 250 kids from Coolidge to Brookland middle and Dunbar. Then you can send the 40 kids from Shepherd and the 200 kids from Lafayette. Yes. I agree, that could be tenable. But now you got an under-enrolled Deal and JR, same as Hardy and MacArthur. It would make more sense to take some kids from Janney and send them to Hardy and MacArthur.

Also Deal/JR to Hardy/MA, you're more likely to have buy-in. With moving kids from Wells/Coolidge to Brookland/Dunbar and then Deal/JR to Wells/Coolidge, you're pissing off and possibly losing 450 families vs 200 from Janney (or insert W3 neighborhood). Also W3 going to Hardy/MA is as close to even trade as you can get. The other scenario, everyone goes down in quality. Not to mention, you now have an all white Deal/JR.

I’m confused why you think there are only white kids enrolled at Deal feeders WOTP

Janney: 4% Black
Murch: 13% Black
Lafayette: 8% Black
Hearst: 17% Black
Deal: 26% Black
Hardy: 29% Black
DCPS: 57% Black, 22% Hispanic, 17% White

Ok but that still doesn’t add up to an all white Deal and JR.

I’m also very confused why we must insist that schools be the exact same percentages of the city for every school. Are we insisting that schools in Ward 8 take Hispanic kids? Because I don’t think we are.

Is anyone insisting on that? I think they are just pointing out that JR feeders are self segregated, in some cases extremely so.

There is no way to fix that. Houses are 1 million plus. The apartments are accepting vouchers so more at risk kids are getting in to Murch and Hearst. Janney has no apartments and Lafayette has very few. Maybe they should move some of the apartment buildings to those schools.

The only other way to fix it is to blow up neighborhood schools and that is not going to happen.

There absolutely is a way to try to fix it. Janney and Lafayette should not accept one single kid via lottery that is not at-risk. Period. You want extra funding to round out your new 2nd grade bubble class, all 10 of the kids you need to get there have to be at-risk. It's a simple fix. I know someone that got off the list OOB this year at one of the schools that is a very wealthy Crestwood family. That should no longer occur.

As an OOB family at one of those schools, I think it will be difficult to fill at-risk elementary slots. It’s a colossal pain in the ass to schlep your kid across the park every day. Lafayette especially is in the middle of nowhere and poorly served with public transit. Not dissing your idea, but sadly it takes privilege on top of lottery luck to attend these schools OOB.

I know plenty of W7 and W8 kids commuting to attend Shepherd, Deal, JR, and DCI. Why would they not also commute to Lafayette or Janney given the opportunity. There is a way to have equitable access for these schools. Yes, they should not be enrolling over capacity but 100% of the lottery spots should be at risk. Not even 10-15% but 100% of them.

And if you are going to shut out MC kids in Wards 7,8,4, etc. from the lottery, you need to make MC students in some of the wealthier schools (Lafayette, Shepherd, Murch, and now Bancroft, etc.) share the resources that flow with them by integrating schools EOTP. You can draw lines dictated by property values and say the kids on military road a certain section of 16th Street get the golden ticket, and the other section of 16th street or the kids on Piney Branch can never get access to "Wilson for All" because their houses are not worth as much.

Has nothing to do with property values. All schools should have a set aside for at risk student. The ones that are closer to 100% capacity AND have a very low threshold of At-risk should be 100% at risk for any OOB spots until they reach X threshold. It's not that hard.

Lafayette is 2% at risk. They should not be able to accept a student from the lottery that is not designated at-risk until they are 10% or 15% at-risk. This should be for every DCPS neighborhood school at all levels.

Other than that, go to your IB school or one of the many city wide charters if you want school choice. Nobody says there is access to Lafayette for all.