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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Isn't it interesting that the Committee charged with examining boundaries passed on the opportunity to address systemic overcrowding issues at Ward 3 elementaries even though those same schools are now expected to enroll the equivalent of 10 percent of their seats for OOB/at risk students.  Why doesn't this seem to add up?[/quote]

They got crucified for the tiny W3 changed they suggested...why would they go down that route again?[/quote]

Look at the Washington Post map. They did it again![/quote]

I don't know the blocks by heart, but posters upthread suggested that they had greatly reduced the Murch/Hearst swap.[/quote]

They pushed some Murch families to Lafayette, which makes a lot more sense geographically than the original Murch-to-Hearst proposal did.[/quote]

That is correct that they reduced the Murch-Hearst swap, though they added a Hearst to Murch swap, which is crazy.  How can you look anyone at Murch in the eye and say you have to go, but someone else gets to come in.  And if no one lives in the Hearst to Murch swap, why do it?

The Murch to Lafayette swap doesn't make all that much sense geographically, but is easier for the Murch parents to swallow because of their irrational fear of Hearst.[/quote]

If you look at a map of the area that's proposed to move from Hearst to Murch, it's maybe 15-20 houses on the south side of Albemarle down to Audubon Terrace. I doubt many, if any, would send their kids to DCPS no matter what, and it kind of makes sense because those couple of blocks seem to be more connected to the neighborhood to the north, rather than the one to the south--there aren't any through-streets to the south but there are going north.  But they've left in the Hearst boundary what appear to be a handful of apartment buildings fronting Connecticut.[/quote]

Yes, but if there aren't any families there, why switch the piece?
And if there are some families there, why switch close families and move ones in that are farther away?
Either way, it doesn't make sense.[/quote]

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