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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Just a friendly reminder that neighborhood schools are a choice as well.  There is no fundamental right to go to your neighborhood school.  School districts adopt systems to identify how they will distribute seats to schools.  DCPS has long been a neighborhood school system with a lottery system for available seats.  The feeder rights for OOB students has now been in place almost a decade.

Cities like NY give a preference but no guarantee of a spot in a neighborhood school.  SF has a complete lottery system.  Seattle long had a choice system with a neighborhood preference to a cluster of schools.

DCPS could adopt a number of ways to solve the overcrowding problem.  Doing away with the right for OOB students to follow a feeder pattern is one option but not the only and not necessarily the most politically palatable.

My youngest starts Deal in the fall.  How they solve this will not have an impact on my kids so I really do not have a dog in this fight other than property values.

All of you parents that recently bought into upper NW and think this can be easily solved by cutting off feeder rights to OOB students likely did not participate in this discussion last time it was actually on the table  in a boundary review.

I think it is wise to think about a solution that betters the system for all DCPS students, not just your child's path.

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True, but the flip side is that if there's no way to ensure rights to a quality school, then families will leave DCPS and probably DC. The incentive to buy in neighborhoods that are IB for Deal and Wilson would disappear as rights to these schools would disappear. There would be negative impacts to a city that can't support families with quality schools. And yes, property values would decline in many neighborhoods too and we'd revert back to the levels of urban flight for families that was standard from the 60's until relatively recently.[/quote]

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