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[quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]I thought all the elementary schools located in Ward 3 had overcrowding issues (of course, Deal and Wilson being the most abused post-elementary schools because of stupidly wide boundaries, before the changes).  The boundary changes were designed to expand and contract in order to address that.[/quote]

You would think that from reading the forums. But, Hearst exchanged roughly equal-sized plots of land, Key, Mann, and Janney stayed the same. Lafayette and Eaton expanded. I see that Stoddert's boundaries were reduced. So, add that to the list. Not a lot of changes.
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Then I guess the main objects of scrutiny (at least in Ward 3) were Deal and Wilson:  without narrowing their boundaries to be consistent with their feeder schools, Deal and Wilson saw no end in sight to the glut of students.  Also moving a feeder from Deal to Hardy helped take one slot out of Deal and grow Hardy.  The victims of the contraction were understandably unhappy, but something very close to the lines recommended for cutting was necessary.  Some of the geography formerly in Deal and Wilson's boundaries may not send a ton of students to those schools RIGHT NOW, but with gentrification in DC clearly increasing, there would have been no way to control the population growth because of the inventory of homes in those areas.  That is, the best way to control growth in the student population at any given school is to control geography.  I think the DME also knew that the same areas cut from Deal/Wilson have extremely fertile potential for high-SES students in the near future:  hence the promise to build new middle schools close-by, which would automatically become "new Deals"...as long as they are created and sold properly.[/quote]

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