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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I see no benefit of continuing this OOB "safety valve" lottery system. Michelle Rhee was off the mark as the system has not improved overall, just some random children get a spot at a "good" school.

Improve neighborhood schools.[/quote]
If there are spots available in schools I have no problem making them available to taxpayers who want them, even if they don't happen to live in-boundary.

The mistake was upping the stakes on OOB. Making it so that if someone gets into an OOB slot for pre-k they have rights for the next 14 years -- as do their siblings. Making it a right that trumps any notion of capacity of the schools. Those changes made DCPS even more a system of haves and have-nots, a system of winners and losers. These were short-sighted destabilizing changes.[/quote]
But they also provided a solid educational pathway to kids whose neighborhood school is failing.  I have no doubt that if the elementary is failing the middle and high school options are as well.

To disclose my bias:  my family is in bounds for Janney, Deal and Wilson.  I support feeder rights, these students are part of the elementary community and should not be cut off from their cohort at the end of their elementary years if the city cannot offer them a better option.  [/quote]
New poster.  But the real rub occurs when those OOB students with feeder rights are either (1) overloading the capacity of the schools, or (2) displacing neighborhood children.  If there is simply no more room at an overcrowded school, which students should go to a different school: the OOB students or the neighborhood students?

To disclose my (lack of) bias: My family is not in-bounds for Janney, Deal, Wilson, or any of the Ward 3 schools.  And none of my children are at those schools either.[/quote]

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