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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.

And there is urgency in figuring this out because it takes time to change or create a school that will be an attractive alternative to Ward 3.  [/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: [b]no-one should be forced into a worse alternative than what they have today. [/b]

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.

If there are families EOTP like yours, zoned for Deal or not, that prefer to attend middle school EOTP, then those families should start meeting once a month over a bottle of wine (in person; nothing will ever get accomplished on DCUM!) and discussing which existing or new school they want to attend, and then work on it. Who knows, maybe it will become the most sought after school, as Jeff suggests, and we'll all be trying to get in OOB. 
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I'm in Petworth, not zoned for Deal or Wilson, and what we have [i]is[/i] the worse alternative.  I am positive that there are others in this area, currently or soon to be entering DCPS elementary schools, who don't want to be bothered with Deal/Wilson saga - and yes, we are meeting to discuss how we can build and rebuild a better MS and HS.[/quote]

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