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[quote=Anonymous]Going to a park or baseball game is nice.  Capitol Hill offers some good amenities as well--DC Youth orchestra, CHAW, some sports teams.  But there are other things many families with older kids (let's say age 10+) would like that the neighborhood isn't going to offer, at least not at an affordable price.  For example, a lot of parents would prefer to separate opposite-sex siblings, so a 2br apartment would be tough.  It can be hard to have a pet when buildings don't allow them.  Some kids will probably stay--and some in-bounds families will go to Jefferson and on to Eastern.  But will there be enough in-bounds kids to fill 2 classes at each grade level from PK3-5?  At least for the next few years, I can't imagine there will be 40+ families who

a) live in the Van Ness boundary
b) have a rising 5th grader
c) do not enter the lottery, or enter it and fail to get into BASIS, Latin, another charter, or a school that feeds into Hardy or Deal 
d) decide to stay in the neighborhood

There will be some.  But not enough to fill--or even come close to filling--two classes per grade, which is what DCPS plans to offer at Van Ness.
It seems much more likely that there will be several dozen out of bounds families who see Van Ness as pulling them into a better middle/high school feeder pattern without too onerous a commute.

A lot of this could have been avoided had the DME abolished the rule that getting into an elementary school OOB guarantees you a right to attend its middle and high school feeders.  People might stay at Van Ness through 5th grade if they had a shot at an OOB slot at Hardy or Deal for 6th.  Somehow forcing BASIS, Latin, and other middle schools to start at 6th grade would also help, but I think that ship has sailed.

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