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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Did the people in SP not just watch Eaton get zoned out of Deal?[/quote]

That was different.  Eaton basically has few political friends.  Next to Hearst (which is located even in closer proximity to Deal), Eaton has the smallest IB percentage of any Ward 3 elementary school.  (It's no surprise that Eaton keeps slipping and slipping on DCPS' renovation schedule, as Eaton is a far lesser priority for Mary Cheh than other Ward 3 schools with more parent voters.)  Obviously, moving a school like Janney or Murch out of Deal didn't make much locational sense and politically it was a nonstarter.  Because Eaton's students live scattered across the city, and fewer than 40% in Ward 3, DCPS calculated that there would be less numerous and concentrated parent opposition at Eaton than if they moved any other school WOTP.  The other reality is that a number of Eaton OOB students actually live in EOTP neighborhoods that will still feed to Deal, so that reduced the number of upset Eaton families mostly to those who live IB for Eaton.  For some of the other Eaton OOB families, Hardy is still a better middle school alternative than what they would otherwise get.  The Janney neighborhood also had its own representative (an unsuccessful council candidate) as a Ward 3 member on the redistricting committee, who protected Janney's interests.  He was happy to throw Eaton under the bus, referring to Eaton being kicked out of Deal as necessary "collateral damage."  The reality is that no students EOTP were going to be removed from the Deal feeder unless there was some bloodletting WOTP.  Eaton was the sacrificial lamb.[/quote]

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