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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They're not moving Shepherd out without also moving a WOTP elementary out, and Lafayette is the only one that makes any sense. They're not moving Murch or Janney out when many of those kids can literally walk across the street to Deal/Wilson.

As far as political will, when have WOTP parents ever had much true political pull in this city? And I'm going to guess the new Ward 4 council member would be all for moving Lafayette kids to a MS/HS across the park. But hey, Ward 4 voted for her. Enjoy the result.

All-lottery doesn't make sense on a number of levels: There aren't enough high-performing kids in the city to truly achieve the balance needed, and sprinkling those kids all over the place won't do much. There's also the matter of transportation, which, considering WMATA's very dire straits, would be a massive issue.

[b]Moving Lafayette and Shepherd as a group to EOTP MS/HS would give those schools a sizable high-achieving cohort all at once[/b]. Of course, if it does happen, it likely will not affect anyone commenting here now: The changes won't kick in until 2024 at the earliest and almost certainly will contain a grandfather clause keeping all current Lafayette kids inbounds for Deal/Wilson.[/quote]

Yup - in fact if it was just those 2 ES it would give you a higher performing cohort than the remaining cohort at Deal.[/quote]

My kids will be past middle school age by the time any boundary changes are made, but I would have happily chosen a smaller middle school with Lafayette, Shepard, and another school (Bancroft?) over Deal. We lotteried unsuccessfully for Hardy. Deal is just too big for many kids.[/quote]

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