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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It is hard to build successful new schools without critical mass of sufficiently prepared students. This "tweak" reduces the pool of students used to form critical mass.[/quote]
Agree.  Also, since fewer students will need to attend MacFarland, there is less pressure for DCPS to invest in developing the school.  I predict development will slow substantially now.[/quote]

Hyperbole, really. Some of you seem to ascribe a lot of change-making ability to a small group of families in Crestwood and 16th Street Heights, maybe a few dozen families in total? Crestwood and 16th St Heights have small populations of school-aged kids. They will not make or break MacFarland.

I am constantly hearing about how Petworth is rapidly gentrifying. If that is true, then that will be what drives the future of MacFarland. It's a far larger and far more dense area of the new MacFarland boundary than these other, more western neighborhoods.

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Agreed.  Plus, some of us in 16th St Heights may actually want to send our kids to a middle school a half mile away instead of across the park.  Just make it good enough, and I'll be happy to be there with our Petworth neighbors.[/quote]

+1  I am in a home now granted back into Deal, but I sure would rather walk to a smaller, strong McFarland Middle school than drive across town to an oversubscribed Deal.  I am at a DCI feeder, so ultimately it probably won't matter for my family, but you never know and it would be nice to have a strong neighborhood middle school as a backup for my family and a comfortable option for the neighborhood kids.  [/quote]

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