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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Bancroft truly makes no sense, when the kids could go a couple of blocks away to CHEC Or to McFarland to continue dual language. That is ridiculous. Shepherd is an IB program, like Deal, so that makes more sense to me. If the city wants to increase diversity of Deal and offer consistent programming, it would make more sense to have other the IB programs, Cooke and Thomson, feed to Deal, both of which are community eligibility FARM schools.[/quote]

But Bancroft and Shepherd are already Deal feeders, so why would you take them out and bring in Cooke and Thomson? Makes no sense.

In the end, after all the grand talk of city wide lotteries and such, the DME proposal tried to make the minimum changes possible. The final proposal represents moderate, incremental change, which is what most on DCUM have been asking for all along. Of course some parents are not happy with some of the changes.

So if you can maintain diversity at Deal by continuing Bancroft and Shepherd as feeders, that's what you do. It would be really silly to remove those two schools and add two others that were not previously Deal feeders.

Plus, in Mount Pleasant's case, its IB school-aged population is majority latino and low income, so it is guaranteed to continue to provide diversity to Deal. Whereas some other schools under discussion on DCUM have been providing diversity to Deal or Hardy primarily via their OOB populations, which may be more temporary.

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