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[quote=Anonymous][quote=jsteele]... MacFarland will never be popular among Crestwood residents unless it can sell itself. No amount of drawing boundaries on paper will force my neighbors to go there. With Deal as an alternative, the sales job is harder. But, MacFarland can distinguish itself with a smaller environment, language immersion, geographic convenience, and a close and supportive community. The issue up for debate is the impact on MacFarland of having Deal as a competitor versus the alienation from DCPS resulting from not having Deal as an option. My analysis is that the Deal option helps MacFarland because it helps attract neighborhood families to Powell and West and encourages younger families to stop focusing on their exist strategies and keeps them engaged long enough to take a look at MacFarland. Whether the neighborhood engages with Roosevelt depends almost entirely on what happens with MacFarland.[/quote]
Fair point on my running-to-Canada analogy; that was too flip.  I'll retract it.  But I do think it's easy for 90% of your neighbors to talk tough about joining charters, selling their houses, sending children to private schools.  When decision time comes, I suspect less than 90% would seize one of those options.  The rest would send their children to MacFarland, and hopefully make it a better place.  You position seems to be that young families will stay in Crestwood/16thSH and will send children to Powell and West, and then somehow be convinced to stay for MacFarland.  I think it's more likely those families will be moving to Crestwood/16thSH largely because it ensures access to Deal, and there's only 1 in 100 who will willingly choose MacFarland over Deal.  When MacFarland was open, how many of your Crestwood neighbors chose MacFarland over Deal?  That's likely the most empirical evidence here.[/quote]

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