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[quote=Anonymous]And let's not forget that the market can also get working here. If you don't like an over-crowded school, then cash out and buy yourself a house a few blocks over in the Payne district. Or apply OOB to less crowded schools, or go charter. It's not like there aren't any options![/quote]

OP again.  There are options of course, just not very good ones.  No high-SES kids at Payne above PreK, and, apparently, any momentum to keep any even for K.  Ludlow-Taylor, JO Wilson, Tyler Traditional and Miner are a little better, but not much, Peabody is jammed, Tyler Spanish Immersion, SWS and Logan Montessori limit intake, and every charter ES with high-SES kids but 2 Rivers (with dozens of applicants for each spot below 2nd grade) is six or seven miles away.

I can see that crowding and trailers/cottages aren't the end of the world, or Lafayette parents wouldn't be petitioning to maintain their school's boundaries.  Brent would survive without the asphalt area of the playground for play, although parents of older kids and neighbors on N. Carolina would surely hate trailers.

What I still don't understand is why DCPS doesn't add permanent additions to super crowded schools like Murch and Lafayette, or build a new school, in zones experiencing steady year on year increases in the number of children being born in a school district, or moving in.

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