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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was just thinking--do you think Wilson is so big this  because in part kids are coming back from
the charters for high school?  And these are kids who 5 years ago would I have never stayed in DC for elementary and middle?[/quote]

No.  The Wilson boundaries contain too many feeder schools.  Look at the boundary map. Wilson’s geographic area is 2x or 3x the norm. [/quote]

We go around and around on this every month on this board -- but PP is right. Even if you kicked out every OOB student it would still be overcrowded.

Lines need to be redrawn, significantly. Eliminating two tiny elementary schools from the feeder path won't cut it. [/quote]

yes, but where did these 700 kids go to middle school?  Do the numbers from Deal, Hardy, Adams add up to 700?
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some of the kids moved IB this summer. Others were at private and charters for middle school but still live IB.

Move Bancroft and Adams to MacFarland and Roosevelt (just like all the other bilingual elementaries. plus making Oyster a PK-5 school allows the school to open more PK classrooms--more space for English-dominant IB kids and more high-quality seats for Spanish-dominant kids from all over).
Move Shepherd and Lafayette to Wells and Coolidge. 
Adding more grade-level kids to the Roosevelt and Coolidge feeder patterns and reducing overcrowding at Deal and Wilson.
Yeah, some parents will freak out. They'll threaten to move out of DC or send their kids to private school. They won't all do it, and DCPS won't particularly care if they do.[/quote]

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