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To address the Deal issue, you would have to make the OOB elementary students attend their neighborhood Middle Schools. Maybe this could be an option to resolve the overcrowding. [/quote]

In my opinion, of all the boneheaded things Michelle Rhee did, the worst was instituting the policy that once you're in OOB, you have the right to stay in the schools your school feeds through high school. Coupled with sibling preference, this means that once you're in OOB your whole family is in for a generation. In one stroke of the pen she created a powerful constituency against change.

I can't see how you can attack redistricting with the current OOB numbers. Let's say Deal is redistricted. What are you going to do with the 35% of Deal students who are OOB? If they get to stay, how is that going to play with the families who were IB but are now OOB?

The reason redistricting will never go anywhere is that the schools are so unequal. The OOB numbers are the tangible proof. With such inequality, people have too much to lose.  The whole OOB system destroys a constituency for improving the worse-off schools, and in its place creates a constituency for opposing change of any kind. This is not a new problem, but the way Rhee dealt with it was to accommodate it rather than address it, and by accommodating it she institutionalized it.  What a mess.[/quote]

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