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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Didn't the 2014 revisions allow DME to tweak Janney's boundaries without going through the formal process?  The Janney parents really need to push this to try and get a handle on the runaway train that the school has become.[/quote]

Yes, it did.  But whether it gets used is another question.  The Janney (or prospective Janney) parents who fought off the small switch that was proposed were virulent in their opposition.  Anyone getting kicked out will probably fight just as hard.  Who within Janney is really going to champion a boundary change and would be willing to take that much hatred from other parents at the school?[/quote]

What a difference a few years can make, though.  With the rise and renovation of Hearst you'd think the future Janney parents on the southern boundary would be demanding a switch to a 300 student school in order to avoid the caricature that Janney has become.[/quote]

Says the Hearst booster. In reality, Janney is still a fantastic school, and the size has many advantages. No other school in DC offers such a wide range of enrichment options.[/quote]

New Hearst booster here. We have awesome enrichments too and a fantastic community and at only 319 kids. iIm ok with the borders not changing, especially for a bunch of parents who fought hard against it just a couple of years ago.  [/quote]

It's a bit of chicken and egg.  Once Hearst's OOB numbers fall significantly so that Hearst is a majority neighborhood school and climbing, more people will want to send their kids there.  At this point, Hearst's enrollment is so diffuse that there are kids who arrive and leave every day in MD cars to go back to their homes in MD.[/quote]

The flip occurred 2 years ago.  The incoming PK4 class is over 80% IB.  In the last lottery round some Eaton and some Murch families are tried unsuccessfully to get in on proximity.  Janney families who fought the boundary shift in 2014 will have to reap what they have sowed.  The portable classrooms will be removed this week, so no more room at the inn.  [/quote]

Eaton families (especially IB) are trying to get into nearby Hearst because they are upset at the DCPS diktat that forced Eaton students from Deal to second-tier Hardy M.S.[/quote]

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