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Sorry, but you are not the arbiter of what makes a "specialized school" - the school can certainly be specialized without having "special entrance requirements."  And to clarify, the other reggio schools are "reggio inspired", and at least one of them (LT?) is half-assing it at best.[/quote]

Sorry, but by that definition SWS is "reggio inspired" as well.  In fact, every single "Reggio" school outside of the Malaguzzi Center in Reggio Emelia  is "reggio inspired".  There is no certifying body.  You may find differences in the quality of programs, but all of them are classified under the same mantel.[/quote]

The point is that a "specialized school" is whatever the Chancellor says it is.  And a city-wide school is whatever the Chancellor says it is.  And the Chancellor may make exceptions at her discretion for the benefit of the system, and nobody can or will do anything about it, which is how the Fenty boys ended up at Lafayette.

The bottom line is that the Hill hasn't loss any seats, and LT neighbors haven't lost any rights which they previously enjoyed.  There is no net change in those circumstances.

It's been said before (not by me, but I agree with the PP or PPs who have) that the solution to improving the quality of schools on the Hill isn't to increase the number of available seats, but to decrease them.

There are Hardy neighbors complaining on another thread (which is titled about Deal) that they have too many OOB students.  They want to move Hardy and open another MS instead, which sounds about as sane as any suggestions on this thread (which is to say, completely insane).  If they really want an IB only school, they should eliminate classrooms to create fewer OOB seats (and pull in Eaton, while they're at it).  In the land of mediocrity, more is not equal to better, it's actually worse.[/quote]

You're confusing the educational mission or pedagogy with the political act of drawing boundaries.  Every school is "specialized" in some way -- they promote some value or distinction to serve its community.  You may or may not find value in it,  you'd be hard pressed to find two identical educational programs at any given level, aside from national chains (ie KIPP, Appletree)

I get the sense that the people who want more seats are those shut out of PS/PK lotteries or those who are realizing the possibilities of being shut out in the future.  IB overcrowding has yet to be fully realized at upper ES grades on the Hill.  That's not to say the demographic projects agree about  future space needs (or more charters to fill in the gaps). Closures represent current enrollement and near term projections, but you don't see DCPS decomissioning closed buildings.  They're retaining capacity if not active seats.[/quote]

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