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The problem has always been Wilson - Deal alone is now sending enough students to completely fill Wilson.

[b]You should easily be able to replicate the SES mix at Deal and Wilson by bundling Mt Pleasant, Crestwood, 16th Street Heights, Brightwood, Shepherd Park & Colonial Village into Coolidge or Roosevelt.
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I don't think some of the people in these discussions realize how diverse Deal and Wilson are today - sometimes it feels like these Upper NW parents think Deal and Wilson look Sidwell when the reality is far from that.

BTW it is 3.4 miles from Lafayette to Coolidge and 1.5 miles from Lafayette to Wilson - but remember much of the Lafayette district is east of the actual school so there addresses within Lafayette's boundaries that are probably more like 2.5 miles from Coolidge and 2 miles from Wilson.  I doubt too many students from Lafayette are walking to Wilson or even taking the bus so going across the park isn't really such a burden.

It is not logistically hard to overnight change the student mix at Coolidge to one that should be palatable for those parents, assuming those parents are ok with the current mix at Wilson which is only 34% white.[/quote]

Um, [b]if you took out Mt Pleasant, Crestwood, 16th Street Heights, Brightwood, Shepherd Park & Colonial Village from Deal/Wilson, (and presumably OTB families), the SES and racial diversity of DEAL/Wilson would drastically decline.[/b]  But I guess that suits WOTP families just fine?[/quote]

Wilson really should have more white kids. The population data shows this, if a school was in a black neighborhood and yet had fewer black kids that were in the city's population percentage wise, people would decry it racist. But because it is white kids being over crowded in a white neighborhood by a city that inflates the black population by adding feeder rights specifically to inject more black kids, it is cool and needs to be preserved. Horse shit

Don't overplay your hand.  Have you seen what real estate prices are like in these areas, particularly Mt. Pleasant and Crestwood.  Demographics are certainly converging with WOTP.[/quote]

Housing prices are rising of course all over the city but it's disingenuous to suggest the demographics east and west of the park are the same.  There are no lower SES families and relatively few black or latino families west of the park.  So if Deal and Wilson have significant diversity of that kind, it is coming from the eotp neighborhoods zoned or previously zoned for Deal/Wilson and OOB students that everyone seems to want to exclude -- just to make Deal/Wilson better/less crowded for the wotp crowd.[/quote][/quote]

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