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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Are all those 3rd graders really IB Janney???  I wonder what the classes sizes are like in the other Deal feeders?  Because, if it's similar, Deal is going to be even more outrageous in 3 years.  At what point is someone Downtown going to actually tackle this?  There may be no political appetite to removed feeder rights, or remove some schools from the feeder system, or cut whole swaths of WOTP areas out of Deal, but something has to be done.  At some point someone is going to have to stop ignoring the problem and actually face pissing of some people and deal with it.  Because this is just nuts.  And DCPS is no MoCo, so making that comparison is silly.
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They did cut some nearby WOTP schools out of Deal, including John Eaton which had fed to Deal for 80 years or so.  A lot of unhappy parents there.[/quote]

You are right, yes they did.  I should have said "more" WOTP areas.  And, considering how many OOB kids were tucked into Deal feeders right after that, it's a wonder Eaton parents weren't even more angry.  It's a mess.[/quote]

Yes.  It was politics over substance.  There had to be at least some boundary changes in Ward 3 -- otherwise other wards would scream --  so J. Eaton was the sacrificial lamb (but will have little impact on Deal because its 5th grade is relatively small).  Meanwhile Bowser moved to protect access to Deal for certain of her "base" neighborhoods EOTP, either directly or through Deal feeders.  So there was basically no impact on Deal overcrowding, or perhaps the net/net was to make it worse.[/quote]

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