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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Neither would be enough. Only really answer would have to be both plus Lafayette but that would suck to happen when both schools are 50-60% IB. To continue to zone out any schools while 50% of the school is OOB seems plain silly to me.[/quote]

NP.  Seems the obvious first step is to eliminate OOB feeder rights.  [b]Shepherd is something like 50% OOB, right?[/b]  Stop letting people use it as a backdoor to Deal/Wilson.  If that doesn't reduce the overcrowding enough, then consider whether realigning boundaries makes sense.  
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Last year it was only 35% IB, although it will likely be higher this year (don't think data is available yet).  Isn't Hearst also majority OOB?  I think with both schools, the OOB issue will go away over the next several years as they both become increasingly IB.[/quote]

Yes, at all of the Deal feeders, the IB percentage is high or rising sharply (Hearst is now just over 50% IB as of this year; and both Hearst and Shepherd have IB waitlists for PK).  Taking away OOB feeder rights will not solve the overcrowding problem. [/quote]

No, it probably won't solve the problem entirely, but it's a step in the right direction.  Doesn't it make sense to take even small steps in the right direction, even if each of those steps in isolation doesn't solve the entire problem?

Eliminating OOB feeder rights couldn't realistically begin until the 2018-19 school year anyway, because there's no way DCPS would announce such a change now for the 2017-18 school year.  And having watched DCPS, even if they announce elimination of OOB feeder rights starting in the 2018-19 school year, they'll put in some crazy long grandfather program to avoid whining from anyone.  So even if they start eliminating OOB feeder rights ASAP, we won't see any actual change in enrollment for 3-5 years.  [/quote]

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