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[quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele][quote=Anonymous]
You know what, I appreciate your candor, as you're acknowledging (I think) that proficiency rates at Wilson would go down in lottery system.  Except that the rates at Wilson are already at only 60%.  Given that figure, I believe your prediction of proficiency is far too optimistic.  If it came to pass, there would be no real benefit for a Ward 3 family to try the lottery to Wilson, as the possibility of losing the lottery would be too horrible to contemplate.  More realistically, if the system went lottery, the scores at Wilson would become similar to the other non-application high schools in the District:  at around 30% proficiency or less.[/quote]

I believe most of us realize this. Even so, I don't believe it is enough to undermine support for lotteries among a large segment of the public. The alternative to lotteries cannot be leaving everyone outside Ward 3 with no viable high school option. I started this thread to discuss one way to create a viable option. So, let's please get back to the topic of what it would take to make Roosevelt an acceptable option for many who would otherwise contribute to Wilson's overcrowding problem.
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Hi Jeff, Mount Pleasant parent here. We don't know each other, but thanks for your excellent website!

I would appreciate it if you (and others) could please stop using "Ward 3" as shorthand for the high-SES, well-educated subset of Wilson (and Deal) families.

There are a number of us who meet or exceed this implied Ward 3 demographic/income standard and who deliberately chose to live within the Wilson boundary but EOTP, for example in Mount Pleasant. As you are probably aware, row houses in Mt P routinely sell for $1m+ now, so it's not really income or wealth that divides us anymore, just preferences.

What unites us is that we all bought our houses in part because they are IB for Wilson.

Our neighborhoods have been IB for Wilson for decades - we are not part of this OOB population to which you refer - and we hope to remain part of the Wilson (and Deal) communities for many years to come.

I hope you will advocate to keep Mt P part of Deal and Wilson, and not, as a PP has done on this thread with the map she/he drew, re-district us into Roosevelt or whatever the latest idea is for an EOTP school. 
 
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