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Yeah, according to MySchoolDC (https://www.myschooldc.org/schools/profile/27), 73% of Coolidge students got a 1 on English PARCC and 44% on got a 1 in math.  I'm willing to do some stuff for equity, but sending my kid to a school with those numbers is absolutely not on that list.  Every parent I know well is in the same boat -- they would all move, go private or homeschool.  If 600 Wilson students were zoned to Coolidge more than 400 would withdraw from DCPS.

[b]It's weird to me that anybody seriously suggests this kind of solution.  It's a little bit like Elizabeth Warren suggesting a 3% annual tax on the total wealth of billionaires.  Billionaires would literally hire a trillion dollars worth of lobbying talent in order to defeat that idea.  What makes anyone think anything like that would ever actually happen in the real world? [/b]

[b]Or are we just amusing ourselves talking about a fantasy world unconnected to real life[/b]?  If that's the game we're playing, then my proposal is that we use magic to make Wilson bigger on the inside than on the outside, like the tents in Harry Potter.   [/quote]

Nah, [b]billionaires are a bit more civic-minded than that[/b].  And it wouldn't hurt them or their children.  If part of Warren's plan involved sending the children of billionaires to low-rated schools, then they might all pack up and move Europe.  [/quote]

Ah, so fantasy world it is then.  OK, in that case, I want a pool inside my Harry Potter tent.  I will be able to swim around with David Koch's ghost and he can tell me all about his tireless efforts to lower his taxes and eliminate worker protections that cost him an almost imperceptible fraction of his income (way less than 3% of his TOTAL WEALTH every year).  Cheers.[/quote]

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