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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.  [b]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.[/b]

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. The residents of DC have voted with their feet. At the time of the 2014 boundary review, only 25% of children city-wide went to their IB schools. [/quote]

That's why![/quote]

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