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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]But if 600 kids from Wilson were re-zoned to Coolidge, for example, the "high performing" cohort would be large enough to support the advanced kids basically immediately. Re-zone Shepherd and Lafayette, boom, it's done. (Coolidge had 310 kids in 17-18).

And the first few years of kids who enroll would have a rougher around the edges experience, but they'd also benefit pretty substantially in college admissions because they would far outperform Coolidge's "historic" stats.[/quote]

You assume parents with options would sheepishly comply. Incorrect - they would go private or move.[/quote]

Yeah, according to MySchoolDC (https://www.myschooldc.org/schools/profile/27), 73% of Coolidge students got a 1 on English PARCC and 44% on got a 1 in math.  I'm willing to do some stuff for equity, but sending my kid to a school with those numbers is absolutely not on that list.  Every parent I know well is in the same boat -- they would all move, go private or homeschool.  If 600 Wilson students were zoned to Coolidge more than 400 would withdraw from DCPS.

It's weird to me that anybody seriously suggests this kind of solution.  It's a little bit like Elizabeth Warren suggesting a 3% annual tax on the total wealth of billionaires.  Billionaires would literally hire a trillion dollars worth of lobbying talent in order to defeat that idea.  What makes anyone think anything like that would ever actually happen in the real world?

Or are we just amusing ourselves talking about a fantasy world unconnected to real life?  If that's the game we're playing, then my proposal is that we use magic to make Wilson bigger on the inside than on the outside, like the tents in Harry Potter.   [/quote]

You do understand that if 600 passing students were to re-zoned, the percentage of kids getting 1% would be more like 20% right?[/quote]

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