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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]I really wonder where a lot of these posters live, who are talking about "over-crowding" and offering purportedly well-meaning proposals of new MSs and HSs for those of us living in wards other than 3. I suspect many live in Ward 3, and thus would never be required to attend these brave new schools that they are proposing. But I can't know, because they don't disclose it. [/quote]
I live in Ward 4 and also posted 18:47 above.
My bias is that I don't want to send my kid to Deal or Wilson, but that means we need better options EOTP.[/quote]
Bancroft parent here, that's great, but it should be a [u]voluntary[/u] process and an [u]additive[/u] process (to borrow from Catania's lingo). I don't work for Catania but he sums it up best: no-one should be forced into a worse alternative than what they have today.

I don't know which posts you authored so this may not be responding to you, more to the posters who say hey, let's move the Deal/Wilson boundaries west to Rock Creek Parkway, that will solve it. [/quote]
16:47 again (not who you're responding to here).  I appreciate the inclusive nature of an "additive" process, but it just won't work here IMHO.  Few families will volunteer to pioneer a new EotP school.  Most will just continue to fight like hell to get access to WotP schools, and will only switch after other families have put in lots of sweat equity to build the EotP schools.  In essence, too many will free-ride.

I know it's incredibly unpopular, but I think the only way DCPS will get a new school to thrive will be to force strong communities to attend the school.  To me, the strong communities poised to build such a school are will have committed parents, above-average income, and lots of racial diversity.  The EotP neighborhoods like Mt Pleasant, 16th St Heights, Petworth, etc are the right ones to build a strong set of elementary/middle/high schools in their neighborhood.  Again, I know it's unpopular, but I think they need to be pushed out of the Deal/Wilson nest, so they will fly.  I also think those neighborhoods could get tons of extra support from DCPS if they volunteer to be zoned out of Deal/Wilson.  They could get almost all the elements they want.[/quote]

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