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1) They lie.  You cannot believe what they say.  Maybe they have a plan but they will announce it when they are ready, not just tell you because you called up and asked.
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Nothing in my conversations with anyone indicates they have a plan, secret or otherwise.

Many, many people in education administration in DC are short-timers. They do the job here just long enough to rack up some numbers and move onto their next gig. You get to know someone, then *poof*, they're off to Seattle or Atlanta or Philadelphia. They don't care about ten years down the road, they'll be five jobs removed from DC by then.

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2) Saying no new schools does not mean they can't reopen old schools.  Outside of Ward 3 there are numerous buildings that, with boundary revisions, could take the pressure off.  This is a Ward 3 problem and you are pretending it is a problem everywhere.  It is not.
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What's been true for the past 50 years is going to stop being true in the next ten.

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3) Kicking some schools out of Wilson is hard politically, but going all-lottery is hard too because then everyone loses their right to Wilson, and potentially matches somewhere even worse than Coolidge.  So why is all-lottery inevitable but kicking out a few schools is not?  You have not explained your reasoning here.
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The coming surge is not going to be about just Wilson nor is it going to be about moving just a few schools. It's going to be about moving the boundaries of every school in the city. [/quote]

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