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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I’d suggest all the OOB kids at Deal/Wilson will have to feed to Coolidge middle and high.

If you don’t like it, go to your neighborhood schools.[/quote]

Ending OOB feeder rights would also be a huge improvement. If you get into a school OOB, you get to go to that school. Not the middle and high school it feeds into. This would really help my IB elementary school (not a Wilson feeder) where the more involved/prepared/educated/etc. parents play the lottery each year in hopes of getting into a Wilson feeder. If they had an equal shot at an OOB slot at Deal or Wilson as the people who won the lottery in kindergarten, they'd be more likely to stay IB for elementary.

Also, right now if you move to DC with an older kid, it's basically impossible to get into Deal or Wilson OOB--the OOB slots are full of kids who won the elementary lottery years before.

I raised this in the last boundary process and the DME said flat-out she didn't want the pushback from people who'd won OOB spaces in kindergarten and believed that gave them a right to attend all the way through 12th. Hopefully the next boundary and assignment process will come to a different conclusion.

But I also think Bancroft and Oyster should feed to MacFarland and Roosevelt, with Adams providing additional elementary space. [/quote]

I'm not really following this argument that ending OOB feeder right would help. Most Wilson feeders , except perhaps Eaton and Hyde, don't have much OOB presence.[/quote]

There are six feeders to Deal. Ignoring Bancroft in case it goes to MacFarland, taking feeder rights away from 5 kids per school per year would free up 3 entire classrooms at Deal. I bet there are 5 kids in each grade at each feeder school who either got in through the lottery or who were IB when they enrolled and moved OOB but are staying through principals' discretion. None of them should have the right to attend Deal. Deal should figure out how many OOB spaces it has and offer them through the lottery, with all OOB kids having the same right to them. [/quote]

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