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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think if Mann fed to Deal, it would be overcrowded in less than 2 years.[/quote]

Maybe the answer is for DCPS to sink some resources into improving the schools that AREN'T in the heart of upper Caucasia.  The schools in NW are overcrowded because white flight, charter schools and a culture of neglect have decimated schools in other parts of the city.  If people felt more comfortable with Hardy or other schools, maybe they wouldn't be leveraging themselves to the eyeballs and hocking grandma's teeth to pay to live in upper NW.  [/quote]

wrong. maybe the answer is for DCPS to sink more resources into schools that serve thousands of students, after sinking so much on schools that sit half empty around the town.  Lafayette is being renovated now and serves 700 students. Murch is 100 years old and still waiting (hopefully renovation will start next summer) and serves over 600 students.  NW schools are not overcrowded because of white flight, if anything, it is quite the opposite, they are overcrowded because white flight (and actually it would be more correct to call it middle class flight, of any color) stopped and families are staying in DC and sending their kids to their IB school instead of moving to MOCO or Virginia.

I think upper NW needs another school, based on how many kids are living IB. Murch, Lafayette and Janney are already large schools. I think Mann should have being renovated into a school as large as Janney, and could have taken kids living in the North West quadrant of the Janney area.  I am not sure if Hearst could have been made larger, but I think this school will be soon as overcrowded as the others, making it bigger and increasing its boundaries would probably make sense.  
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