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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Stranger things can happen and everyone has their price.  [b]Who said merge it into Wilson (they would just love that) but McKinley is the most likely choice? [/b] The unused square footage that's available at McKinley could suck up Bannker and Ellington and still have room for more.

If all schools are about academics then sharing the wealth of merging Banneker will be seen anecdotal instead of anti-education.  C'mon Banneker will become the death of the neighborhood movement, if the data are showing that the majority of their students reside in the northeast quadrant.  Then McKinley, Phelps, Eastern and Woodson should welcome their students back with open arms and opportunities.[/quote]

Oops, I totally misread that.  Yes, McKinley not Wilson.

Nonetheless, why should a high-performing magnet care about the neighborhood movement?  The existence of charters and magnets is antithetical to the neighborhood movement, so it's not clear why they would be invested in propping it up.  McKinley was renovated fairly recently right?  On the one hand I can see Banneker enjoying having a share of that facility.  OTOH, there's a significant trade-off.  If I'm the parent of a child at Banneker, one of the things I like best about it could be that it's drawing the best & the brightest of the AA students, and putting them in an environment well-removed from the social and behavioral influences of the hoi polloi.  That it's conveniently situated near Howard, one of many schools I'd like my child and his peers to aspire to attend, is a bonus.

I can see how this is beneficial to McKinley or Phelps or Eastern, but on balance I don't see how it's beneficial to Banneker.[/quote]

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