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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Do you guys realize that Randolph had always been an IB elementary school with [b]open transfers?[/b] No? That's because no one cared. 
Do we think they will now? 
Reed will get filled because families want a neighborhood school and it's crowded over there. 
And Randolph gets filled with the same students who are sitting there now, and the upper middle class families living near by still don't choose it...
So the SB gave Douglas Park families an automatic out, and guaranteed choice. 
Great? [/quote]

It does not have open transfers and hasn't for at least a few years. There are no open transfers at the ES level. Will it be a strong enough program to draw in families? I don't know. But at least they're willing to find out. What are you worried about? It's not like the school could get MORE segregated. The Douglas Park families already have automatic outs with the options that exist, or they move or go private. This won't change that, except that MAYBE a few more families might be willing to enroll and try to help build the program into one that others might eventually seek out. That's kind of how it's worked for most of the other choice programs.

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