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There is no such thing in DC as "requiring a feeder pattern" because there are just too many other options with the lottery system. We're happily at a "weak" MacFarland feeder and I agree that families won't send their kids to MacFarland. They'll do exactly what MC and UMC families at our feeder do - stay until they can lottery out for a Deal/Hardy feeder or charter, or plan to move for middle school (many families planned to move after elementary all along because they're outgrowing the 2,000sq rowhouse with a postage stamp yard that they bought before having their 2-3 kids). There are PLENTY of MC and UMC families already in Ward 4, they're just not choosing MacFarland. And 1-2 more neighborhoods will not change the needle on that. Folks living in Deal/Hardy zones really just don't get how different school decision making is outside of their neighborhoods.
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Spot on.  If SP and MtP are zoned out of Deal, then families will be in same situation as the families on Capitol Hill, where families either go to Latin, Basis, DCI, Walls or privates.  Or move.  There is NO buy-in for Eastern from UMC families.  DCPS could have elected to institute a rigorous curriculum or "academy" program at Eastern like Wilson did 20 years ago to get in-boundary families to consider Wilson but not a chance.  Also understand the historic politics of middle class and working class decision-making in DC, where to "go west" was always the desired destination.  Wilson academically 35 years ago was not all that great, but it was a lot better than Dunbar, Cardozo or  Coolidge.    DCPS absolutely does not care about creating socio-economically diverse schools.  The attitude conveyed by the Bancroft principal in that article, i.e., educated rich people are just a PITA to deal with, is the attitude of the entirety of the DCPS central office.  And it's a class, not a race, thing.  DCPS Central office doesn't want to deal with inherited wealth AA Gold Coast families either.

The WOTP elementary schools enjoy something called "autonomous status" which I always took to mean a detente between the DCPS central office and the wealthy families who fund six figure HSA budgets.  [/quote]

Nailed it![/quote]

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