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But DCPS is a couple of years away from unsustainable overcrowding at Deal and Wilson. Deal already has a bunch of portable classrooms and no room for more without taking over the athletic field and Wilson I don't believe has any more space to add portables or expand.

But DCPS has plenty of seats for HS students it just needs the political courage to re-draw the boundaries and stick with it.  Unfortunately despite years of discussion about this DCPS still has not built the necessary successful Ward 4 MS to bridge kids between ES and HS and keep them out of Deal/Wilson. [/quote]

I think it would be easier if there were only one option, however unattractive; the problem is that DCPS has several options and their all unattractive.  The basic issue is that more kids have the right to attend certain schools than the schools have capacity for. There's two ways to address that: either increase the capacity of the schools, or decrease the number of kids who have the right to attend.

Increasing the capacity of WOTP schools is not attractive when DCPS has a bunch of other schools with unused capacity.

Reducing the number of kids with the right to attend the school means looking at the two ways kids get the right to attend -- in-boundary through living within the boundaries, and out-of-boundary through the OOB process. In boundary rights can be reduced by changing the boundaries.  That is unpopular with those who lose the right to attend, given the geography would likely have a dramatic effect on the diversity of WOTP schools, and would probably take years to have a meaningful impact. IB rights could even be eliminated by doing away with boundaries altogether, which would have its own issues. Curtailing OOB rights would be unpopular with those who have them, and would also make the WOTP schools less diverse. It also might take years to have an impact.  [/quote]

And DCPS will most likely continue to do nothing, trusting that the market will self correct (families with means will go private or move thus keeping overcrowding at a slow boil). [/quote]

Or move to the suburbs.

That certainly seems to be DCPS' intention. [/quote]

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