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[quote=Anonymous]Looking at the boundary options, it's pretty clear that all 4 of them benefit BCC, WJ, and Whitman at the expense of DCC schools.  Their boundaries barely change (except WJ which gets Woodward as basically a WJ overflow school) whereas DCC boundaries change a lot.  They have almost no split articulation (just Garrett Park and Kensington-Parkwood) while DCC schools have tons.  Some DCC schools will remain overcrowded in some of these options, but their schools will not.  It seems like they basically decided to give those schools everything they want and then let DCC families argue amongst ourselves for or against certain options that benefit some DCC neighborhoods and schools more than others.

How do we push back against this?

1)  Process-wise:  are there any efforts to bring DCC families together around our shared interests on this boundary study, rather than just focusing within our neighborhoods and schools on which of the options we prefer (which we will inevitably disagree on because different options are better for different schools)?  I would love to find somewhere to plug in on this.
2)  Substance-wise: are there some specific changes we can come together to argue for?  Do folks see any obvious changes we can push for (i.e. "Option X amended by moving A elementary to B high school and Y elementary to Z high school")?  It is frustrating that we have to do this ourselves since this set of options should have included at least some that were fairer to DCC schools and then we could have argued things out from there-- but we are where we are, so practically speaking, I think we need to come up with our own amended version of one of these proposals (or one of the earlier round of proposals) if we want to have any hope of changing anything. Do folks have suggestions?

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