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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]"[b]Bought your house in reliance on Wilson access" is not a property right.[/b] Even if it was, I want it taken away for the good of the rest of us. Move if you want. I want those kids in Ward 1 or 4 schools, or if (when, right PP!?!) you move away, to have your replacements put their kids there.[/quote]

You realize this same mentality applies to kids at Lafayette, right?  You want "those kids" gone but you think your feeder rights are sacrosanct.[/quote]

Exactly - for some reason it was easy for some to suggest that eotp kids don't belong (despite their neighborhoods having long been zoned for Deal and Wilson - which, by the way IS in ward 4), but the idea of Lafayette families giving up Wilson is unthinkable....  Um, and I never said it was a "property right" (however that matters).

What's ok for 16th street heights, crestwood, etc, ought to be ok for those families in Chevy Chase DC too.
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Hold on there. It was PP at 14:31 who suggested the Lafayette kids be moved but that families who bought EOTP would keep their rights to Deal/Wilson. How is that any more fair than the other way around?[/quote]

I wasn't suggesting that moving one group of kids or another is any more fair.  What I was saying is that Lafayette kids are no more entitled to Wilson than the EOTP families that have zoned for Wilson since the time of desegregation.  All of those families bought homes in those neighborhoods for access to the Deal/Wilson path, and it is no more fair to drop one group than the other.
That's why I focused on the solution that works best.  Split the white/rich Wilson group up,  Since Lafayette is in the far north and is a large population of wealthy families, create a new "desirable" school path through a far north MS/HS (Coolidge and its accompanying MS).  All of a sudden, we will have two MS/HS paths with great socioeconomic and performance diversity - not just one at Deal/Wilson.

Cutting relatively small numbers of EOTP park families out of Deal/Wilson doesn't accomplish this.  You need to bigger diversion of wealthy, white and politically powerful families to create a second desirable HS track in DCPS.  [/quote]

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