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Yes, you're right and the revised version of me is wrong.

You're still not getting me though. It's not you that I find unsavory, it's your continual insistence that the only reason I and other oppose OOB feeder rights is because we find you unsavory. Overcrowding is real, and removing the 5-year-old OOB feeder rights is the best way to address that. Your inability to understand this motive is unsavory, not you. [/quote]

Well, fair enough. I do understand your concern with crowding. Genuinely, I do. Although I'm not sure why you think OOB families like me who have committed 100% to our school should quietly walk away and not fight to have access to a middle or high school that will provide learning that is on par with what my children have received for the last several years and schools that we were told from the beginning that we could attend. You can certainly advocate all you want to cease feeder rights for OOB, but we'll advocate the opposite just as vigorously because it's meaningful for my children. Whether you want to acknowledge it or not, there is a social contract in place. And while you see my family as expendable, the powers that be at DCPS do not. They know this is of their making. We played an officially sanctioned lottery, that they hosted, by the rules. By accepting a spot that was offered to us, we helped our school maximize its budget so that all the school's students--IB and OOB alike--could get the very best and the very most that DCPS could provide. We did our part.

Our family has been at our OOB ES for several years...if you want to really be strategic and reasonable in your argument you need to focus not on OOB generally, but think about ways it could be adjusted. For instance, I personally think it's poor policy to give kids OOB spots in 4th and 5th grade. At that point, I think a big reason they are coming to the new school is to gain access to the desirable MS and HS feeder pattern...NOT because of the ES and what it offers... that's just a bonus. I think a reasonable argument could be made that after say, 3rd grade, no more OOB spots are made available in ES. Because Hardy has not traditionally been a draw for IB kids, many of those families peel off after 3rd or 4th (for private, Latin, Basis, etc.), freeing up lots of spots. Principals understandably need to make their budget and pay for that 4th or 5th grade teacher, so they call up kids on the waitlist. IB families made that happen because in many cases they didn't tell the principal early enough that they weren't returning the next year. So the principal has to assume they'll be back, but when those kids don't materialize, they've got to make up the budget some how.  [/quote]

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