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[quote=Anonymous]Janney still has a decent contingent of kids who don't live in-bounds.

I suspect the vast majority of these kids lived in-boundary for a period and moved but were allowed by the principal to remain at Janney.

Some of these kids actually live elsewhere in Ward 3 so I'm not really sure why they aren't at Murch or Lafayette but quite a few of these kids do live EOTP.

But I bet all of these kids are UMC.

So probably Janney could accommodate at-risk kids, and as a Janney parent I'd prefer that they did, but they'd have to kick out these kids who no longer live in-bounds.

But like everything else the solution is to fix the bigger boundary and over-crowding issues at Deal and Wilson and creating additional clusters of high performing Public Schools - one in the neighborhoods just east of Rock Creek Park and another in Capital Hill.  One of the reasons the Ward 3 Schools have become so crowded the last 10 years is so many families have cashed out their equity in DC neighborhoods with poorer performing schools and overpaid for a house in AU Park - many of those families would have been happy to stay in their existing neighborhoods if the schools were better.[/quote]

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