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[quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]I was at Coolidge and had my hand up but didn't get picked. So here's my question:

It seems that the task force took a sharp turn. It was originally tasked with looking at boundaries and feeder patterns, and all of a sudden we're seeing radical proposals to change assignment policies. What's wrong with our current assignment policies? Can you give specific examples of problems under our current policies that would be fixed by one of the three scenarios?

Follow-up question, if the answer is along the lines of nothing specific but it would make DCPS more attractive: Do you have any evidence to support that, or is it just your hunch?[/quote]

Something very close to your first question was asked at the first Coolidge meeting. I don't remember the answer exactly but I think it was along the lines of "We have changed the boundaries in 40 years and we don't want to have to keep doing it, so we want to make sure we are making the best changes now." But, big caveat that I've had a lot of conversations about education since that meeting and I could be getting that answer completely wrong. If someone with a better memory can help out, that would be great.

Two specific problems that would be addressed by these proposals are overcrowding at some schools and the lack of assigned schools in areas where schools have been closed. There are neighborhoods that have no assigned school and others that have multiple assigned schools. Obviously, these issues could have been addressed more discretely and without overhauling the entire system, but that gets back to your first question.

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