Reply to Overcrowding and lack of space in Ward 3 Schools

Forum Index » DC Public and Public Charter Schools

Reply to "Overcrowding and lack of space in Ward 3 Schools"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Unsustainable to...whom? What's to stop Deal from serving, say, 2,000 students? And to stop Wilson from absorbing more than 2,000?  Fire code violations? Health and safety violations? Lack of space for classroom trailers and an addition? Furious in-boundary parents voting their CM out?  What?  I'd like to know.  [/quote]

If you look at the "Fact Sheet" here: https://dme.dc.gov/node/1198445 (appendix 4) Deal is currently listed as being at 85% of capacity.

Which basically shows that in DCPS, capacity decisions are complete politics, and have nothing to do with either facility limitations or educational best practices. DC has a conflicted relationship with the Ward 3 schools. People in the rest of the city hate that good schools are concentrated in Ward 3 --but most of the kids who attend public school in Ward 3 live in the rest of the city. DCPS hates that the OOB process sucks kids out of their neighborhood schools -- but they can't say no to people who want to go OOB.

The situation at Deal is whatever is least politically painful, right now. In 2010 Michelle Rhee could have made OOB-feeder a preference instead of a right, and it would have been politically palatable at that time because it would have been functionally equivalent. And it would still be politically palatable today because nothing would have changed. But changing today is a non-starter because of all the people who have gotten used to having that right.

In short, the capacity of Deal is however many people feel that they have a right to go there.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics