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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Politics most likely. Who has the loudest voice, makes the most noise, and gives the most money. It’s easier to continue feeding Bancroft to an overcrowded school on the other side of town than p-off influential people. See also: Shepherd. [/quote]

Shepherd is different because it brings high performing racial diversity to Deal/JR. Bancroft increasingly brings just more high SES white kids (see the loss of Title 1 status). West/Lewis and Powell lost their Deal feed when overcrowding and demographic changes forced the issue, and it’s good odds Bancroft will too. [/quote]

Is Shepherd T1?[/quote]

No, but it’s a very small school. Unlikely to stay IB for Deal/Wilson in next boundary review.[/quote]

I think that’s exactly why it will. [/quote]

Historically, Shepherd was IB for Deal because the light skinned AAs IB didn’t want to have to mix with darker skinned children from other parts of the city. The demographics of the neighborhood have shifted and there are less IB children of color, many of the J&J set have retired and sold. Less diversity IB undercuts argument for keeping on path to overcrowded schools, [/quote]

Complete nonsense.  The "J&J set" always sent their kids to private anyway, and historically Shepherd was IB for Deal because Deal needed to reach that far east to fill seats when everyone WOTP sent their kids to privates.  Now it looks terrible to boundary Shepherd out because it's the only pipeline for IB black diversity in the "flagship" DCPS middle school, but that isn't why it's IB to begin with.[/quote]

Shepherd is not a pipeline for "IB" diversity. It's IB catchment is majority white. [/quote]

Shepherd is 55% black.  And the catchment area may be majority white but it is still much blacker than any other IB school for Deal/J-R. [/quote]

Boundaries are determined by the school catchment. The OOB numbers in the upper grades at Shepherd are telling. If they cared about "diversity," they would sub out Brightwood or Takoma for Shepherd. Ward 4 students should attend school in Ward 4 - including redirecting some of Lafayette's catchment. [/quote]

Keep moving your goalposts.  Nothing changes about the discussion.  Shepherd was not added to Deal to keep lightskinned black kids away from darkskinned black kids.  It is now politically unpalatable to remove Shepherd from the Deal feeder pattern because it provides the only IB black kids.  But people on this board's obsession with removing the 40 kids that come from Shepherd from the Deal feed, a change that would not fix overcrowding, align schools with their wards, or any other canard of they week, is racist.  That's the whole story.[/quote]

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