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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]They're trying hard to move a 30 million dollar plus renovation, planned for 2021 by DCPS and Bowser, up by a few years, and to build relationships with admins and the Jefferson parent organization.  All fine, it's the feeder problem that seems unworkable in under a decade.  Not nearly enough strong students in the pipeline from Tyler heading to Jefferson, and none in-boundary from Brent.  Also no 5th grade at Van Ness for another five years.  If Brent, Maury and SWS fed to the same DCPS middle school, we'd have another Deal soon.  But nobody much lobbied for that several years back, and DCPS wasn't amenable anyway.

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This is just silly, magical thinking and a unicorn. What do these three have in common? On yeah, high concentration of white, high SES students. There is no geographic logic to this at all.[/quote]

There's little geographic logic to many of DCPS's decisions (Watkins, Eaton, etc).  But the decisions that lack geographic logic are politically feasible, while combining Brent, Maury and SWS in one middle school is not.  Given that it will never happen, I do wish people stopped focusing on it.[/quote]

Why is the current Hardy boundary politically feasible?  All of the schools feeding it are whiter and more affluent than the Ward 6 schools.  If it retained its feeders it would look like a private school.  It's moving in that direction now.

The Ward 6 situation is less about politics and more about space.  Even if the political will existed there is currently no place to house a comprehensive MS that addresses both the affluent schools and the less affluent ones like Tyler, Payne, Miner, JO Wilson, Ludlow Taylor.  It also doesn't address Amidon Bowen or Van Ness.  JOW and LT are gaining more IB and Tyler SI adds some more affluent families.  It would have to be on the order of magnitude of Deal rather than Hardy.  Stuart Hobson is a sunk cost and not big enough to handle more feeders.[/quote]

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