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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]So - - - Petworth parents "not having Wilson as an option" does not mean those parents should go to Georgetown, or Palisades or Glover Park.  They should be in Petworth, because the things you want in Georgetown should be in Petworth or Columbia Heights instead.[/quote]

Those things already ARE in those neighborhoods. They are just woefully under-utilized by the UMC white Petworth and Columbia Heights contingent:
Cardozo
CHEC
Roosevelt
Coolidge

Four large facilities are not bursting at the seams, unlike Wilson.

I guarantee that another WOTP high school will be at full capacity the first day it opens. And hence why it should be built - it relieves overcrowding at Wilson, it provides a 2nd viable option for a large cohort of great students, and it opens up more options for OOB folks all over the city (freeing up seats at Banneker, SWW, etc).

The city has already built so much EOTP and the high SES families simply are not showing up. I don't know how this can be any clearer.[/quote]

Maybe it would be easier to re-locate Rock Creek Park?

This was part of the silliness about Ellington - why is there this notion that the schools have to be WOTP to be good?

Schools WOTP are good because of the students and faculty not the location.

Wilson and Deal are not all white UMC schools - both are still quite diverse.  With the gentrification going on EOTP duplicating the diversity at an EOTP MS & HS should not be that heavy of a lift but to do it white students who live EOTP will need to be moved to EOTP schools.[/quote]

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