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[quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Deal wouldn't be overcrowded if DCPS did away with the feeder-school-of-right policy for OOB kids.  I hope day is coming.[/quote]And it would lose any and all minimal diversity that Deal has[/quote]

And I suspect that is exactly what the poster is hoping for...that type of person uses the term OOB to mean black, poor and any other type of person she wants to insulate herself from. You suck PP. [/quote]

During the last school year, Deal was 39% white and 37% black. Last year, Ward 3 was 78% white and 5.6% black. So, limiting Deal to Ward 3 students would result in a loss of the school's diversity. However, Deal currently covers parts of Ward 4. Those neighborhoods are very mixed and could help keep the student body diverse (though probably not as diverse as it is today) even without OOB students. But, I think the real threat to Deal's diversity is redistricting. The Palisades and Spring Valley families that don't like Hardy and probably won't get their own shiny new school will try to get redistricted into Deal. Someone else will have to get redistricted out and that will probably be Ward 4. Without Ward 4 and without OOB, Deal really will be lilly white. But, if Deal really does go from 37% black to 6% black, there will either be a lawsuit or a riot (or maybe both). 
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I agree with Jeff. Plus, there are plenty of white families who can't afford to live in Chevy Chase who are making decisions to invest in and live in-bounds for Shepherd and Bancroft in order to secure access to Deal. Redistricting will be a real bait and switch resulting in pushback beyond lawsuits based on the diminishing of diversity at Deal. And I'm admittedly not looped in too well on the school planning stuff, but why isn't the Walter Reed campus being looked to as a site for a new Middle School? I realize Cheh's argument for that ballsy Palisades plan of hers is economies of scale based on the renovation of the red center...well, wouldnt there also be economies of scale at Walter Reed baed on the planning going on there (LAMB, etc.)[/quote]

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