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In Brooklyn, many families, affluent and poor, were happy with their placements when they were announced last spring. But 45 children were assigned to Charles O. Dewey, the middle school Sophie is attending, who had not included it anywhere on their ranked list of choices. [b]Enrollment figures indicate most of those students did not show, moving to private or charter schools, or perhaps leaving the district.[/b] The percent of kids from priority groups enrolled in Dewey’s sixth grade class went from 95 percent last year to 92 percent this year.

Look if you rezone someone from Whitman to BCC or from Wheaton to Einstein they may not mind. You could probably rezone someone from Einstein to BCC and they would be happy.

If you rezone someone to an undesirable school or a school they never selected then they won't show up. You are not going to get Whitman kids at Einstein anymore than Brooklyn could get affluent kids into Dewey. [/quote]
The girl that that followed who ended up going to that school - "Sophie - seemed to be doing fine.  Yes, some people chose not to go, others chose to go.

Here's what her parents said... “She has an opportunity to have friends who aren’t from her neighborhood, whose lives are different from hers. I want her to see not everyone in New York City lives the way she lives.”

Another mom who gave up a seat at a charter to go to that school... "“Dewey is a superior school,” she said. “I was just blown away by it.”"
But you also neglected to quote other parts of the article:

[quote]"Preliminary enrollment data show the overall racial makeup of District 15’s sixth-grade class this year barely changed, with no sign of heightened white flight from the public system. "
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Now, look at the other kid in the story -- "Angel Angon Quiroz " -- a low income kid who got into the more desirable school.  I noticed you omitted his story.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/education/2019/11/15/what-happened-when-brooklyn-tried-integrate-its-middle-schools/?arc404=true

If we have rich white flight who choose to go to private, then that's fine. More taxes dollars for MCPS students, I guess, and less overcrowding. So, thank you?

BTW, I'm Asian American.[/quote]

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