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[quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]practically no one enters Deal via the geographic boundary.  Its students come via the feeder elementaries, for which neither Crestwood nor 16th St Hts are in the boundaries.

Number of 6th Graders entering Deal this school year:
Lafayette: 86
Janney: 72
Murch: 53
Bancroft: 44
Eaton: 34
Shepherd: 29
Hearst: 27
Oyster: 11
Key: 6

31 students went to schools from which less than 5 went to Deal, e.g., West, Powell, Brightwood.

They didn't know where 20 students went to school due to errors, moving from somewhere out of state, etc.

All this to say, feeder rights remaining in effect, the best analysis is that there are few Crestwood and 16th Street Heights Deal students and that their losing geographical boundary rights to Deal will have no significant effect on how they access their preferred schools west of Rock Creek Park.

http://dme.dc.gov/sites/default/files/dc/sites/dme/publication/attachments/Feeder%20Pattern%20Analysis%20of%20DCPS%20Middle%20or%20MS%26HS%20Education%20Campuses_4.2.14.pdf

All this to say, again, I'm not crying over the tiny numbers of people who are losing boundary rights they aren't using anyway.[/quote]

Nobody expects you to cry for anyone. But, why are you going out of your way to act like we don't have a legitimate complaint? Regardless of whatever numbers you produce, you cannot dispute that students from Crestwood and 16th Street Heights have been going to Deal. They may not fit nicely into your numbers. For instance, my son at Deal previously attended a charter school. He is not counted among your WotP feeders. Moreover, future opportunities OOB WotP will likely be more limited. So, you really can't speak about our future access to WotP schools.

If you are convinced that there are so few Crestwood students, why don't you acknowledge that they have no impact whatsoever on overcrowding? I have no idea why we are being rezoned, but it has nothing at all to do with the problem new boundaries were supposed to solve. Why would you even care if we stayed inbounds for Deal and Wilson if there are so few of us?
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