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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]One other thing to consider is that if Wilson ever goes all IB, that's a tremendous loss of enrollment. Part of what makes Wilson so successful now is the large number of students- so they can offer lots of great classss plus advanced maths, physics, languages etc. Even if you counter with "well if we could just become all IB upper income white kids therefore we will attract more iB parents who currently send their kids private" the demographic projections don't bear this out. No matter how you slice those numbers, the HS pop of IB families is dropping, not growing enough to fill those empty OOB seats. So whenever people complain about OOB kids ruining Wilson, I thank god for them because if not for OOB Wilson would have died on the vine a long time ago. [/quote]

I don't know what numbers you are referring to (and I've scrutinized them) but there is no evidence of this - at the rising 5th grade level at just Janney, Murch & Lafayette there are 375 students and that is just a fraction of the IB population and Deal is already almost as big as Wilson.

Sure some of the kids from the adjacent 3 schools will go private but most won't.

The loss of Wilson going all IB would be in diversity so for that reason I hope it doesn't happen but there is a crush of in-boundary kids bound for Wilson over the next 4-5 years.[/quote]

Diversity is a nice bonus.  But not at the cost of overcrowding.  There are lots of other opportunities to surround your child with diversity: sports, clubs, church, etc.  Ward 3 parents who absolutely need diversity in schools should have no trouble lotterying into EOTP schools.  [/quote]

Um, the diversity is not a nice bonus to white parents!  It's a legal obligation towards black kids.  There was a school district in Mississippi that was forced to consolidated high schools and jr highs due to having an all-white school.  So DCPS correctly and appropriately will be cautious about taking any measures that will result in the most academically advanced high school and jr high becoming all-white.  Obviously the current Justice Department is not likely to take action in this way, but it's a little nuts to think that DCPS will consciously take policy steps that will result in re-segregation.

http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/14/us/cleveland-mississippi-school-desegregation-settlement/index.html

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You think DCPS wants the Feds shining a flashlight on their failed system?  Hah!  Bring it on![/quote]

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