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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]How does controlled choice "recapture" inbound students who opt out of Watkins, for example?

Is it because it would no longer allow them to even apply to a charter or DCPS school outside of a neighborhood controlled choice zone?

And then once they are "captured" in this zone, they might be sent to one of three or four schools depending on a lottery.

Seems more like a mechanism to make these families jump even further away from their closest DCPS, like out of the city far.[/quote]

But here's the funny thing that strikes me about the Capitol Hill situation. If you started restricting Capitol Hill schools to only Capitol Hill students, they could potentially end up with even lower FARMs numbers than you have now. Which is not to say that Capitol Hill doesn't have socioeconomic "diversity" (i.e. people who are relatively poor), it still does. But nonetheless, if kids weren't coming in from all over the city, some Capitol Hill parents might say "Great, this is going to be a neighborhood school again with my friends, the Johnsons and the Diaz's from the block. Maybe we'll stay." Anyway, I soooo don't think it will play out this way. But if you stop thinking about Brent and start thinking about Payne, it makes you wonder.[/quote]

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