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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It looks like it will be part of the DCC. There is a reason schools are put in the consortium. It is a mechanism to give middle class parents hope that even if they buy is a lesser zone that there is hope for a better school helping to prevent economic flight as suburban poverty has crept up as the cities have become vogue again. It also allows for load balancing as numbers swing wildly when you have lots of dense low income housing in a particular area.

[b]If lots of DCC kids end up at Woodward and it is positioned as an overflow school it will simply not be well regarded and its metrics will reflect that.[/b] [/quote]

What does this even mean? Whether it is placed in the DCC or not, it will not be an "overflow" school. It will primarily serve the student population living within 2 miles of its location. It is not that big. It is not going to be able to take tons of out of cluster DCC kids.

My crystal ball says it will be part of the DCC with some sort of magnet. It will be like other popular DCC schools where most students are within its boundaries or part of the magnet program. There won't be a lot of room for choice kids in its non-magnet program.[/quote]

My crystal ball says there is no way they would add Woodward to the DCC while leaving WJ, BCC, and Whitman as standalone schools.[/quote]

Curious why you think not? It’s a new school and they have the opportunity to do it.  if they don’t it will exacerbate inequality across the local schools which is the opposite of their stated goals.  Of course they will do it.  [b]They can do it with a new school without having to fight the battle of figuring out how to move around current attending students and their irate parents as with the W’s[/b]. [/quote]

No, they can't. They still need to move around current attending students no matter what. Every student (or really, every residence's address) is assigned to one school even if they are part of the DCC.[/quote]

What?  There are currrently no addresses assigned to Woodward (obviously.). No reason they couldn’t make it a dcc school.  Once it opens it can still be dcc and/or magnet or whatever and still have dedicated in-bound students because the bounds are being drawn from scratch and will be Relocating kids from dcc and non dcc schools.  [/quote]

Right. But the notion that adding Woodward to the DCC could happen "without having to fight the battle of figuring out how to move around current attending students and their irate parents" doesn't follow, because that would still happen either way.[/quote]

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