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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Eliminating feeders will never happen here - possibly for high school but for all schools.[/quote]

To be blunt about it, if DC moved to eliminate feeders and go to a lotto system for all schools, you would see White Flight II to the suburbs.[/quote]
On the other hand, if the system ignored that crazy lotto idea AND tightened the attendance requirements to have some geographic logic, you'd keep loads of whites (and white-like people) IN the city.   If the feeder system was scaled back or eliminated, only the white folk in Mt pleasant, Columbia hts, etc might flee if charters don't appeal.  [b]White people west of the park won't go anywhere if the feeder free for all goes away. [/b][/quote]

Best to get away from racial assumptions about neighborhoods or anyone.  But the point is, in response to a PP's suggestion of having all DC schools randomly assigned by lottery is that it would prove absolutely unacceptable to many, many parents.  If you, say, bought a house in AU Park in the Janney district and next year were told that your only option was to attend a failing elementary school clear across the city, you'd be selling your house and pushing your belongings across Western Avenue faster than you can say "MoCo."[/quote]

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