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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]The idea of adding a Ward 2 or 3 high school is at least an attempt to increase the size of the pie. My issue with it is that[b] it may not be the optimal method of achieving that goal. [/b]My preference is to look at expanding EotP opportunities. I can foresee a day when high-performing, ethnically and socio-economicly diverse EotP schools are considered preferable to homogeneous WotP schools. That day is not tomorrow and certainly communities cannot be abandoned during the transition, but the day may not be that far off either. [/quote]

I agree with increasing the size of the pie, but a Ward 2 or 3 high school is not optimal because it would still be drawing students from EOTP. One could say it would [i]have to[/i] draw from EOTP because there [b]aren't enough school aged kids[/b] in Ward 2 and the southern portion of Ward 3 [b]choosing DCPS over private[/b] (isn't this the reason Hardy is mostly OOB?).

[b]So then we're back to the same problem of EOTP students going to WOTP schools and leaving their own neighborhood schools struggling. [/b] Why would we recreate the problem we're dealing with now??

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Two things to consider:

Deal and Wilson are located WOTP but they are not "WOTP schools", because their boundaries extend EOTP. That is to say, some people are IB for Deal/Wilson living EOTP.

Regarding OOB, one thing worth asking is, which things are temporary, and which are permanent? For example, how permanent is it that people in Palisades and Georgetown will choose private over DCPS? And therefore how permanent is it that Hardy will stay majority OOB? I have read in other threads that Hardy is seeing a come-back of IB families. What if everyone in those areas just decided to send their kids to Hardy, as happened at some point with Deal, Janney, Lafayette?

I can't predict the future but I suspect that the schools that are in universally wealthy neighborhoods and currently have a high OOB population will all be exclusively IB within some number of years, including Hardy.  
  
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