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[quote=Anonymous]Miles-wise, the elementary schools that should go to different middle schools or yes, K-8 schools, are:

Shepard
Bancroft
Eaton
Oyster

The only one of those that's even a close call, distance-wise, is Eaton.  Eaton and Mann are equidistant from Deal when using a motor vehicle.

Of course, there can never be a middle school in the District of Columbia that is allowed to get any whiter on the pie chart, due to an action taken by elected or appointed officials.

It's OK, politically speaking, for an elementary to be all white with 6% Asian adopted children (Mann).   It's OK, politically speaking, for large-majority white elementary to get statistically even whiter due to inboundary increases precluding OOB transfers (Janney, Murch).

But an elected official or an appointed body cannot slice out any schools from Deal that would have the direct and immediate effect of reducing the number of students who are brown or black.  (Shepard, Bancroft, Oyster, Eaton).  That official might as well just go touch the third rail at Farragut North.

Therefore, we as a city are about to embark on some tortuous, contrived way to shave down the number of bodies in Deal (Wilson) while skipping right past the common sense and simple answer of drawing a perfect circle around Deal and saying students within the circle may attend.

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