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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]you say further segregating, you mean, having those students go somewhere that's not Wilson, right?

I certainly would appreciate those students being in my Ward 4 schools.

I know that due to residential segregation the only diversity without very high household income in Ward 3 comes from outside Ward 3, but if there are going to be geographic boundaries at all there has to be some systemic planning here.

A "plan" that lets everyone into Deal and Wilson has led to massive overcrowding and problems for equity and clear segregation in the rest of DCPS. If not everyone getting in, who should go there and why, and who should go elsewhere? We can come to better solutions.[/quote]

We really don't have a neighborhood school system though, but no one in charge seems to acknowledge it.

More than 70% of families choose not to attend their neighborhood school (just under 50% choose charters, and half of all DCPS students don't go to their IB school). People in the Wilson feeder pattern seem to sometimes lose sight of that. A large number of us who live outside your boundaries just don't have a lot of sympathy for your complaints about overcrowding and lack of 'differentiation' for your bright, but probably not actually gifted, kids. First world problems, as the saying goes.

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