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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]You people that are dreaming about a change in the OOB feeder system or even the individual school feeder systems are not living in reality.  By the time this fight comes up again, many on this board will be planning for college graduation.  Exhibit A:  Crestwood and 16th Street Heights will keep their Deal feeder right into the 2020s.  The politicians do not want to have this discussion again anytime soon.[/quote]
+1000 It's funny how people love to theorize about which school will be cut from Deal or how OOB policy is on the verge of ending as if that is anywhere close to reality. If anyone participated in the DME boundary and feed-rights process you'll know that these things will NOT happen anytime in the near future that would impact the people railing on this thread. As PP said, by the time anything significant changes, you're kids will be heading off to college. A few anonymous people sitting at their computers deciding that "x" school will get cut from Deal is nothing more than wishful thinking of parents who don't understand the history, the recent decisions or the political landscape. OOB policies were affirmed earlier and more strongly than just about anything during the DME process. The decision-makers made it clear very early on that OOB wasn't on the table to be touched in any significant way. In fact, they double downed by establishing the idea of set-asides for at-risk children. [/quote]

It's fine to talk in theory about mandating a quota of "at-risk children", but the reality is that few parents honestly want a group of them in their kid's classroom.  At best there will be a drag on the at-grade level kids as teacher resources are stretched thin; at worst there could be some serious behavioral problems to contend with.  And that aside, the whole initiative seems unmanageable.[/quote]

What if the child, surrounded by children who are succeeding, actually improve? You are so quick to sign off on children as failures. Sad. At risk children are not the only children with behavioral problems. I have been in NWDC long enough to see plenty of children who are terrible and ban them from my house.[/quote]

The biggest potential problem with the set-asides isn't behavior. More likely, it'll be truancy. There is no proposed transportation mechanism/infrastructure to get these kids -- who, in order to qualify, may be homeless or in foster care -- up to Far Northwest from DC General and thereabouts. It's not like they'll be arriving in the family minivan. Instead, their seats will probably be empty more often than not. (Which may be an unintended, hidden benefit for NWDC folks concerned about mushrooming class sizes. If a quarter of the seats in your kid's class are "filled" with absent at-risk kids who can't make the commute work, then the locals (1) can forget whatever concerns they have about at-risk classmates and (2) profit from an effectively smaller class size.) [/quote]

You are assuming a lot about "at risk" kids in DC. Most are SNAP/TANF, not foster or homeless. Many live close to a metro station or good bus line, because that's where a lot of apartment buildings are. FYI about half of DC-originated foster placements are in MD.

People on DCUM think there's this huge difference between FARM and at-risk, like at risk automatically means a dysfunctional kid. It doesn't. It's just a question of degree. There is an income continuum, and at risk is poorer than (and included in) FARM.

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Doesn't at risk also include children more than a year behind grade level? There are thousands at-risk kids throughout the city, and even a 10% set-aside at successful schools won't be enough to help all of them. But DCPS has to do something to try and help these kids succeed.

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