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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't understand why they don't end OOB feeders for a few years to see if that is enough. One can't assume that all IB kids from feeders continue to Deal.[/quote]

Because hundreds of families across the district would be hugely pissed off. They got their 3 year old in OOB to Shepherd or Bancroft or Hyde-Addison and think they they have a divine right to send that kid and all its little siblings through to Wilson over the next two decades. The families that trek their kids across town to Wilson-feeding schools tend to be middle class and many work for the DC and federal government (including Congress and the Department of Education). DCPS doesn't want to piss them off. They'd rather have 29 kids in an elementary school class, and if a couple of law firm associates living in AU Park decide to send their kid to private school or move to Maryland instead, they don't care. DCPS leadership doesn't see those families as really belonging in DC, or DCPS, anyway.[/quote]

I think your overly blunt description is going to piss people off, but I think you're correct on the essence.[/quote]

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