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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"The current system is unsustainable."

I have heard this comment from many people both on this board and amongst elected officials regarding DCPS policies and operations. However, as a newcomer to the city with a not-as-of-yet school aged child, I am curious what events will [b]force[/b] DCPS to change its ways? In other words, what pressures are in operation that will cause a crisis in the system that a little duct tape, spit, and glue can't fix?

Though I'm new to the conversation I understand that for the first time in a long while the population is rising and more and more kids are unable to get into the good Ward 3 schools from OOB, thereby forcing them to go to their local school, or opt for the suburbs or private. But how is this situation 'unsustainable'?

Don't get me wrong - I understand the gnashing of teeth, but the fact that more and more kids will have to go to their local neighborhood school seems totally sustainable (and perhaps inevitable) to me. What am I missing?[/quote]

You're missing the fact that people don't go to their local neighborhood schools.  44% of DC kids go to charters, of which a handful are really good and the rest just as mediocre as the DCPS schools the kids left behind.  Meanwhile neighborhood schools become under enrolled and lose funding and the extras that could make them attractive to new students. In a perverse way, it spins the downward cycle even faster.  [/quote]

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