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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]--Because "school choice" has become a buzzword and anything that threatens to limit that is unacceptable. 
--Because there are thousands of children who currently attend DCPS schools OOB and the city has committed to a policy of ensuring continuity for those students.
--Because charters, which don't deal with boudnaries, have changed things, changed thinking.[b] It's easier to imagine doing away with DCPS boundaries altogether than to limit choice. [/b]
--Because allowing children who have joined a cohort and community at one school to stay with that group for middle school and high school is the right thing to do. 
--Because the boundary review process was a long, painful process that solved nothing. 
--Because higher SES families will leave or go private if the overcrowding becomes too problematic. [/quote]

In fact, DCPS is committed to a system of neighborhood-based schools.  One of the principal draws for many DCPS schools is that kids go to community-based schools near their homes and go to school with their neighborhood friends.  Lose the community connection to the local schools and schools will lose support that they currently have.  Not to mention that no one who digs deep for a house in the Janney or Mann districts will accept a lottery in which their kids get assigned to a so-called "education campus" or to Marion Barry High in SE.

Moreover, the DC government is committed to walkability and reducing dependence on car traffic.  Why would they embrace a system that would basically put more kids into cars??

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I truly don't understand why DCPS remains committed to a neighborhood-based school system. [b]The residents of DC have voted with their feet.[/b] At the time of the 2014 boundary review, only 25% of children city-wide went to their IB schools. [/quote]

Yes, they vote (Bowser and others hear them), but not with their feet. They stay in place in their current neighborhoods, rather than move, and demand slots in other schools.  As for feet, they don't use them -- instead putting more and more cars onto DC streets.  Sad for the environment.[/quote]

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