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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]If your best responses to an idea are "it's not going to happen" and "instead you should do a completely ludicrous thing" you have probably realized that the idea could be compelling to decisionmakers.

You don't have to like it--most people who've been zoned out of Wilson didn't like that--but not everyone can go to Wilson, and it makes sense for the schools furthest from Wilson to go to schools that are closer.

In addition to Oyster and Bancroft going to Roosevelt, DCPS should also end the rule that OOB kids can continue along the feeder pattern past the terminal grade of the school they lotteried into. Those two changes alone would solve overcrowding--and allow for OOB spots at Wilson to be distributed through the lottery, so OA families would still have a chance at attending. [/quote]

Dear PP, why are you so defensive?

I don't find the Deal --?Eastern idea ludicrous at all.

Please take the time to consider it, and to respond with arguments. If not, I'm afraid you have none and this is the kind of masterstroke that brave DC policy makers could well embrace.

Having Deal feed into Eastern would, at the same time:
-- alleviate Wilson's overcrowding for decades to come
-- give Eastern a chance to succeed, to become a great city-wide high school
-- help end decades if not centuries of segregation
-- teach Deal students very important socio-emotional skills
-- open up capacity in Wilson for a lottery offering spots to kids impacted by the opioid crisis

I know there are some arguments against, but frankly they are pretty petty compared to the awesome vision right above.[/quote]

If you cannot see the difference between sending kids to a school that is closer to them than their current school vs. sending kids to a school that is further away, and you cannot see the difference between feeding all elementary schools with the same curriculum to a single middle and high school that have room to accommodate them versus what you've "proposed" then I don't really know how to help you. But you are not making a serious proposal here. You are just making the best argument you can against your kid going somewhere other than Wilson--it's just a bad argument. And I get it. You like the option of Wilson. But at some point DCPS is going to realize that not all kids with rights to Wilson will fit there, and they will start making tough choices. [/quote]

Closer to whom?  Wilson is 2.5 miles from Oyster.  Roosevelt is 3.1 miles from Oyster.  You are loud and wrong.[/quote]

Would you mind looking up the distance between the SE boundary of Deal and Eastern High?

I bet it's less than 3.1 miles.[/quote]

I’m the person who posted the distance between Oyster and the two high schools.  I haven’t posted anything about Eastern HS.  The fact remains that Oyster is closer to Wilson than Roosevelt.[/quote]

And Adams is closer to Roosevelt than to Wilson. Maybe keeping Adams and having it feed to Roosevelt is a good compromise. Bancroft could go to MacFarland (which is closer to them than Deal) and then on to Roosevelt as well.[/quote]

The compromise was when Oyster lost its dual feeder rights to Deal.  Oyster is not losing Adams, nor its feeder rights to Wilson.  I'm not going to debate you on this matter.  Just wait and see.[/quote]

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