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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Um, I'm not sticking up for Lafayette.

Basically - set up the zoning based on proximity and capacity. Overfilled Wilson and underfilled Coolidge and Roosevelt are part of one system.[/quote]

The reason that Deal and Wilson are over-crowded is that more kids have the right to attend than the schools can hold. Nobody is admitted through the lottery to either. So the solution is simple: reduce the number of kids who have the right to attend. There are two ways that you can get the right to attend: either live in-boundary, or attend a feeder school. You can reduce the number of kids who attend by-right either by shrinking the boundaries or by restricting feeder school rights. (You could also reduce the number of kids in the feeder schools either by shrinking their boundaries or by moving schools out of the feeder pattern, but that will take longer to have an impact). The problem is that nobody wants to be the one who loses out, as the discussion on this thread indicates.

Until DCPS can offer alternatives that are as-good or even almost-as-good they're not going to be able to take anyone out of either school. [/quote]

But not all kids at the elementary schools that feed Deal and Hardy have the "right" to them.   I look around my child's class and I know 7 children who moved OOB after enrolling.   These are the ones I know.  I am sure there are more as I do not know the current home address of 100 students.   So let's pretend that 10% of each class of each feeder school are children who moved OOB but stayed enrolled.   These children are continuing to Deal / Wilson.   Take 10% of the students out of Deal and guess what - problem mostly solved.

Who is going to ask the Principal to enforce the policy?[/quote]

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