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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don’t think creating geographic proximity is the main objective of DCPS.   The majority of people reject it ( hence the high Out-of-bounds and charter percentages). And they reject it because a good education shouldn’t be dependent on your zip code.  So how close a school is to the tenth of a mile is irrelevant.

Engaged parents want schools where there are other engaged families.  Unfortunately these families aren’t evenly distributed across the city and they can’t all fit in Ward 3 schools.  If you want MacFarland or another middle school to be a viable Deal alternative you need to encourage a large number of educated engaged families to make the move.   Sending Bancroft, a Tiitle 1 school that’s majority first generation families, to MacFarland won’t create that tipping point.  There simply aren’t enough of those families to affect MacFarland and the few that exist won’t likely make the move since they know there won’t be a large cohort there.

Change needs to be big to make a difference.  Moving a giant school like Lafayette that is full of engaged families could actually make a difference though.[/quote]

Exactly.

And this is why having Deal feed into Eastern makes so much sense.

Finally someone else, much more articulate than me, gets it.[/quote]

I agree with the Lafayette case, and moving Oyster Adams out of the Wilson feed. But Deal to Eastern? 
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