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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Oh please. Most of the hipster types are decidedly not going to you exclusive WotP school. They are going charter. I grow tired of people turning this boundary process into some sort of bitchfest about OOB families who earned their spots legitimately through a lottery system that was and is in place.  In that process those families were clearly told that their children had the right at attend that school and continue in the feeder path for that school. And let's not conveniently forget that those OOB students won their spots NOT because a school or school community is particularly generous or kind but because those schools and their principals wanted to maximize their budgets and fill every open enrollment seat. Period. Plus, let's see the data. OOB students at WotP schools continues to decrease year after year so it will taper off as this generation matriculates. Pointing to OOB is a desperate attempt to deflect attention from the real issue--boundaries that need to be rewritten because schools like Janney simply have more real estate in it's boundaries than can be accommodated. I predict that the boundary advisory board could essentially sunset the OOB process, though allowing current OOB students to continue to matriculate via the path they were promised. The tricky part is getting the EotP schools to look attractive enough to make upper SES want to attend rather than run to the charters. [/quote]

Isn't the "tricky" part the whole problem? This isn't about hipsters or anyone being greedy or selfish regardless of which "side of the park" you live on. For there to be long term real improvement in neighborhood schools, people have to want to go to them. Everywhere else he same issue exists, just not as stark. People who live in MD or VA also look at school boundaries when buying property, this is not an exclusively DC phenomenon. [/quote]

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