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New feeder pattern: Janney, Mann, Key and Lafayette feed Bethesda. [/quote]

More like:
Garrison, Marie Reed, Seaton, Cleveland, and Ross feed Bethesda.

Deal and the WOTP schools incl Wilson are gonna be ok.  DCPS's problem is what to do about its rising elementary schools and keeping those kids in middle school and high school and in the system.  Shaw has tons of families of small kids who will be  choosing between good public and private.  All the Shaw schools (plus Marie Reed) have been on the rise the past five years, due to families, renovations, and new great principals.  
On the feeder question, first DCPS needs to figure out how to offer the Shaw kids the equivalent of Deal+Wilson, either by improving schools or switching feeders around.
And second DCPS needs to ride the wave of elementary schools in Petworth/Takoma DC etc which are about 5 years behind the Shaw schools.[/quote]

That's the optimist's view.

DCPS has significant structural problems. Among them: it owns a lot of buildings, but not where families want to go to school, and there are a lot of economically disadvantaged kids in the city, who tend to be more difficult and more expensive to educate. The rosy scenario is that as the city's population continues to grow, more families live in the city, and they create demand for under-utilized schools and reduce the concentration of poverty, in a virtuous cycle.  The doomsday scenario is that the unattractive schools remain unattractive and that crowding makes the schools that are attractive today less attractive in the future -- "nobody goes there anymore, it's too crowded" per Yogi Berra. [/quote]

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