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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]But there aRe lots of kids in the Van ness area that attend Brent OOB that may prefer to attend van ness when it opens, so it would take pressure off of Brent if van ness opened.  Plus some in the Brent area may decide they prefer van ness and go there OOB.   [/quote]

Nice try.  Brent is 50 percent OOB.  While I know there are a few families living in CQ who have older kids have attended Brent, none are in K or the ECE program, at least to the best of my limited knowledge.  In fact, several younger siblings have been (or almost certainly will be) shut out of Brent via the lottery  Thus, it is not likely that any current or future Brent student would be eligible to transfer to Van Ness, at least until the corresponding upper grades have been established -- I.e., sometime after the 2015 SY.  Either way, it's not going to make much of a dent in terms of any supposed "pressure" on Brent.  If anything, right now the argument can be made that the size of the Brent catchment needs to be expanded insofar as IB families comprise only half of the school and yet 78 percent of IB students attend.

Is it possible that some Brent families might want to attend Van Ness?  Sure, anything is possible, particularly if a family is shut out of PS/PK at Brent.  However, they will be competing along with the rest of the city for OOB spots in the absence of a proximity preference.  it's not like they can just show up and enroll at Van Ness as in the good ole days.  Of course, none of this accounts for the impact of the CSX-VAT project.

In the end, who really knows?  Based on Catania's commentary at the DCPS budget hearing, it seems there is some possibility that the 2015 reopening could be pushed by a year or to.  Common sense seems to suggest that spending $15MM to reopen a school for about 100 kids is foolish.[/quote]

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