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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Alice Deal enrollment over the years (with citations)

2009-10 - 866 (http://profiles.dcps.dc.gov/pdf/DCPS-School-Profile-DEAL-Jan-11.pdf)
2010-11 - 867 (http://dcps.dc.gov/DCPS/Files/downloads/Learn-About-Schools/DCPS-Middle-School-Guide-2010-2011.pdf)
2011-12 - 1014 (http://profiles.dcps.dc.gov/pdf/deal2012.pdf)
2012-13 - 1165 (http://profiles.dcps.dc.gov/pdf/405_2013.pdf)
2013-14 - 1248 (http://profiles.dcps.dc.gov/Deal+Middle+School)
2014-15 - 1305 (http://alicedeal.org/faq-the-deal-facts/)

The plan Mayor Bowser just "tweaked" was supposed to stem this flow.  I fear she may be pouring water back into the boat.[/quote]
Great, now why don't you post up the stats for Janney's growth? Want to know which of the Deal feeders is causing the Deal population to increase? Here's a hint, it's WOTP and leads the JKLM acronym. Lafayette too, although census predictions point to declining enrollment there over the next 10 years.  [/quote]
I don't get your point.  I don't really care how much each individual feeder school is bloating Deal's enrollment; I just want the enrollment to drop.  You seem like you might have some vendetta against Janney.  If your solution to Deal's overenrollment is for DCPS to build another middle school in Upper Northwest, I'm sure all the people who live there will be very happy.  But IMHO that seems like a poor approach.  Also, I suspect there would be a lot of opposition to what would be perceived as even more favors for Upper Northwest.

Look, the only viable answer to Deal overcrowding is to reduce enrollment.  And unless we're prepared to go to some crazy all-city lottery, that means neighborhoods with other middle school options will need to be shifted out of Deal's orbit.  For better or worse, that puts places like Crestwood and Shepherd Park on the bubble.  Whatever political favors got called in to press Mayor Bowser to tweak the plan are just temporary bandaids.  Real solutions, and real progress for our city's middle schools, just got delayed by another 5-10 years.[/quote]

I don't have anything against Janney, but my anecdotal impression is that Janney parents have been the most vocal on the Deal crowding issue, during the DME process and on DCUM. IIUC, the whole DME process got started in the first place because Cheh's constituents pushed her to advocate to reduce Deal crowding. Her constituency (Ward 3) is larger than Janney but Janney is the largest public school parent population.

You implicitly assume that WOTP schools should be last on the block when it comes to reducing Deal enrollment. Isn't it equally fair game to talk about removing part of the Janney district from Deal, rezoning it to Mann and Hardy? After all, Mann is small and Janney is crowded, so if reducing crowding is your intention, you can accomplish it at Janney and Deal simultaneously. That's just an example. Another example would be assigning Eaton to Hardy whereas before it had dual rights to Deal and Hardy. As you know, that second example was chosen by the DME committee.

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