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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]As to the bolded, you guys literally *just* got an additional high school to avoid anyone being redistricted out of the only coveted by-right high school in the District.  Take a breath and stop feeling sorry for yourself.  There are zero freaking labor and delivery wards east of the river, you can trade lap swimming for jumping jacks for a season without the hair shirt.[/quote]

This shows you don’t understand the situation at all. There is plenty of room at Jackson-Reed for all in-boundary students from both Hardy and Deal. No in-boundary families needed to be redistricted at all. There’s even plenty of room there for all in-boundary students and hundreds of out-of-boundary students at Jackson-Reed. What there wasn’t room for was all the in-boundary students and the 700+ out-of-boundary students D.C. was sending there.

Jackson-Reed was overcrowded - the the point where kids were having classes in utility rooms - because D.C. policies had it stuffed with OOB students, with the in-bound Ward 3 students suffering. MacArthur was opened because instead of lowering the percentage of non-Ward 3 students in Ward 3 schools, the city decided it would rather kick out some in-bound (and OOB) students from Jackson-Reed so that Ward 3 had two hybrid local/commuter high schools, instead of one local highschool.

The whole purpose of MacArthur is to help the non-Ward 3 students going to Ward 3 for school, at the expense of local Ward 3 students.[/quote]

Or, you don't understand the situation (or more likely, like most people who cry about Ward 3 in the same breath as Jackson-Reed on this board, you don't know the Ward boundaries).  The boundaries for Deal and J-R are not inside of Ward 3.  They're not, and have never been, Ward 3 schools.  They are not *your* schools - a huge number of Ward 4 students are in-bounds for Deal and J-R.  There's no "in-bound Ward 3 students suffering" because "in-bound Ward 3 students" is a demographic you just invented (or again: don't understand what you're arguing about).

Either there's room for all the in-boundary students at Deal and J-R (which includes Ward 4 students, WHO ARE IN-BOUNDS) or there's redistricting required, but there's no such thing as "there's room for all the in-bound Ward 3 students without redistricting."  If you limit it to Ward 3 students, you'd need to . . . wait for it . . . redraw the districts!

Boo hoo your planned pool construction is not moving at a faster pace than other Wards' identical work orders.  Truly you are the most oppressed among us.[/quote]

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